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Article #88806

Re: WoW Pay to Play

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From: Gismo
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:43
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"Steven Ung" <127....@gtekmy.po.my> skrev i en meddelelse
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> > Well, you should ask this question to the 400 thousand EQ subscribers
> > who have no only bought the original EQ, but have also paid for the 6
> > (or 7?) expansion packs that followed. Not to mention that the
> > subscription fee has been increased from US8 to US12 recently.
>
> 400K isn't that much as compared to 8 million copies sold for StarCraft
> (last I recall) :)

How many games sell that good ?
FEW - if you look total 400k sold copies is quiet good

How much did warcraft 1 sold ?
c&c ?
fifa 2002 ?

none of those sold over 8 mills

> However, since it had so many releases, revenue wise, it may surpasses
what
> Starcraft had made. With that, the game may improve further with new
> releases, patches etc.

When i played UO they released patch 200 i mean !


>
> > Blizzard is not publishing WoW for those who don't want to pay a
> > monthly fee. They are doing it for those who will and the market
> > proved that there ARE people who are willing to pay. If you don't want
> > to pay, don't play. The end of the story.
>
> True. Since I won't be paying, I won't be playing. :-)

You dont know what you miss ... ;)

> > Can't believe that people are still arguing over this. Not as if
> > MMORPG was born yesterday.
>
> We're not arguing, just trying to know whether anyone would be willing to
> pay.

I will, and i know lots who will too ... eaven if they say now they wount ..
when they see the game they probaly start .. if they like that kind of game
!

Gismo
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