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"Steven Ung" <127.0.0.1@gtekmy.po.my> wrote in message news:<biguac$955ah$1@ID-121643.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> "Simond" <simond@.boredofspamnow.apocalypsecow.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:big49r$p8i$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> >
> > "Steven Ung" <127.0.0.1@gtekmy.po.my> wrote in message
> > news:biecom$8ffts$1@ID-121643.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > > "Gismo" <stivnisse@[XXXX]hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:3f4a6721$0$97192$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk...
> > > >
> > > > "Bizoune Bizoune" <No__SPAM____tremorchrist@hotmail.com____No___SPAM>
>  skrev
> > > > i en meddelelse news:gur2b.8700$qA3.740639@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> > > > >
> > > > > > Gismo will pay
> > > > > > (but it will be hard for him to find opponents)     :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Are you nutzz??  this game will be a success!!!
> > > >
> > > > Lots of ppl will pay .. just see how many there are paying for UO,
>  Daoc,
>  Ao
> > > > and all the other mmorpg games
> > >
> > > Okay now, compare those figures with the number of players playing
>  StarCraft
> > > / WarCraft on Blizzard servers. What do you see?
> > >
> > > An Ant hill vs the sky difference, innit? :P
> >
> > X million people playing BNet times no monthly payment = Zero income
> > (X/10) million people playing WoW times $10/month = X million dollars
>  income
> > a month.
>  
> > Get it yet? =)
> 
> Of course, that was the point of charging people. Blizzard is not a charity
> organization, you know ;-)
> 
> The main point here is that will you pay to play online even though you had
> bought the game.

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.
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.

Can't believe that people are still arguing over this. Not as if
MMORPG was born yesterday.