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Article #88778Re: WoW Pay to Play
From: Gismo
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:20
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:20
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"Caecina" <caecina@aol.com> skrev i en meddelelse news:20030823154041.28426.00000586@mb-m18.aol.com... > > I can't believe that people would quibble over paying $10.00/ month for > >this. I'm by no means rich... lower middle class really, but this is about > >what you'd pay for a movie and a coke. > > Good point, but some people don't see a movie every month. There's also the > price of the game itself, which is tied to the $10 a month subscription. You can allways use gametime if you play little > >People don't balk at paying $10.00 > >for 2 hours of entertainment, but complain when they pay the same amount for > >something that will likely entertain them for upwards of 20-100 hours a > >month?!? > > I do think, however, that Blizzard should offer one free month, or a set number > of hours, in order for the prospective subscriber to decide whether or not it's > worth it. $10 a month, for one game, on top of the price of the game itself, is > too much for some people, especially if they've got other considerations. > (school, rent, family, all the above, etc..) Normaly you get 1-3 month free, and 30 $ for the game + 10 $ for the first month might be ok, if its a bad game you can allways sell it - if its a good game you can keep playing it Gismo
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!news5.aus1.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!not-for-mail From: "Gismo" <stivnisse@[XXXX]hotmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.warcraft References: <3f4720e6@shknews01> <20030823154041.28426.00000586@mb-m18.aol.com> Subject: Re: WoW Pay to Play Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 10:20:36 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3f487555$0$97158$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> Organization: TDC Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.197.13.2 X-Trace: 1061713237 dread12.news.tele.dk 97158 80.197.13.2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit