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Article #88807Re: WoW Pay to Play
From: hayman
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:02
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:02
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> > 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. ppl need to complain about things, or complain about the complaining, its natural... like suggested in matrix ppl can't life in a perfect society, I think thats more correct than we want it to be. satisfaction only last as long as we don't have other wishes. back to the subject however, I will buy the game and play, and if it doesn't match or surpass my expectations I will stop playing. the trailer looked good, so I hope the rest of the game is also. hayman.
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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!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!nntpfeed-01.ops.asmr-01.energis-idc.net!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!195.129.110.21.MISMATCH!bnewsfeed00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewsinpeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewspost00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!news.nl.uu.net!not-for-mail From: "hayman" <holmankevin@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.warcraft References: <bi2m9i$qr8$1@news.gate.net> <bi3nep$4t0ur$1@ID-121643.news.uni-berlin.de> <bi8ijl$6pc4o$1@ID-193549.news.uni-berlin.de> <gur2b.8700$qA3.740639@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca> <3f4a6721$0$97192$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> <biecom$8ffts$1@ID-121643.news.uni-berlin.de> <big49r$p8i$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> <biguac$955ah$1@ID-121643.news.uni-berlin.de> <33aa9771.0308262252.64341848@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: WoW Pay to Play Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:02:19 +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: 33 Message-ID: <3f4c65d7$0$273$4d4ebb8e@news.nl.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 1Cust229.tnt29.rtm1.nld.da.uu.net X-Trace: 1061971416 news.nl.uu.net 273 213.116.152.229 X-Complaints-To: abuse@nl.uu.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit