TFMF Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 A preview for the upcomming MMO from Stargate has been released and can be viewed here: http://gateworld.net/video/newsandfeatures/1199763655.shtml It looks interesting, I suppose. Maybe too early to tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QUEENSPOCK Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 :o looks interesting but you will probably have to pay monthly for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Well... yeah but it'll probably only be £10 a month or something. Although, it seems as if everyone on the forum is living in a third world country and that's their living wage for a year. Damn you poor people. Anyways... these teaser things aren't particularly informative... it's unlikely that that's the actual engine they'll use. It's more a "hey, get ready to be excited" type teaser... I'm just wondering if it'll be anything more than a run of the mill MMORPG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 BAAH its just a FMV sequence, but if they are charging a monthly fee then I aint gonna be interested as its just another way of screwing us gamers of more money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Eh, it makes sense... but then, these kind of gaming experiences are usually about grind, grind, grind. Fun not included. Quite why you people are still moaning about monthly fees is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tablet Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Quite why you people are still moaning about monthly fees is beyond me. I second that. Anyway if the real game looks anything like that trailer i'll most probably use it as an excuse to get a new PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Quite why you people are still moaning about monthly fees is beyond me. I second that. Anyway if the real game looks anything like that trailer i'll most probably use it as an excuse to get a new PC its quite simple its a RIPP OFF! and its beyond me in why people cant see that![br]Posted on: January 12, 2008, 12:20:35 PMLets say this game is £35 and then £10 per month, it will cost £155 a year to play a damn game...hardly worth it really and only a fool would pay it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tablet Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Quite why you people are still moaning about monthly fees is beyond me. I second that. Anyway if the real game looks anything like that trailer i'll most probably use it as an excuse to get a new PC its quite simple its a RIPP OFF! and its beyond me in why people cant see that![br]Posted on: January 12, 2008, 12:20:35 PMLets say this game is £35 and then £10 per month, it will cost £155 a year to play a damn game...hardly worth it really and only a fool would pay it!! Yeah, yeah, we've heard it all before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 yeah yeah yeah and your still stupid paying that kinda money for a video game! edited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Calm down guys. :) One way of looking at it, to make the price more reasonable would be: A normal pc game costs about $50. Excluding the multiplayer part that sometimes comes with such a game, you can finish it in about a week. From this perspective, $200/year isn't all that expensive, provided you can play this game for that long without actually finishing it. And when you do finish it and grow tired of it, you can simply stop you subsciption. Suppose you'd have finished it in 3 months, total price would have been something like $75 (1st month is always free/included with the game disc). All in all, that's acceptable. If you do count the multiplayer part of those $50 games, then you have to take into account that it isn't always easy finding a good server and good people to play with, annoying human players are usually even more frustrating than annoying AI in my experience (though you're confronted with these problems in mmorpg too, to an extend) If you discount all the games where you can't set up a server of your own (which btw is another extra 'hidden' cost for you) and which support is cut within 1-2 years (EA anyone?), virtually the only games that are left, are some FPS and some RTS... In the end it amounts to everybody's own ideas about what is a good price and what isn't. Considering the above, I'd say most mmorpg are decently priced compared to other games. However, all games are fairly expensive imo. But then again, considering the amount of work and people it takes to make a good game (compared to a movie or a song for example, and no I'm not counting the guy who did mr blehbleh's hair in this/that movie movie/videoclip or the guy that was credited for flushing the toilet wheneven ms didi had done her deed... foolishness...), those prices may be justified. Games are the fastest growing industry atm, so they must still be making a more than fair profit though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tablet Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 yeah yeah yeah and your still stupid paying that kinda money for a video game! Firstly I have never payed to play a game online nor at the moment do i have the means to pay for one, i never said i did, just because i accept that monthy fees are both fair and required does not mean that i am currently paying for any such game. Thridly every time there's a discussion about online gaming and fees you say the same thing, everytime, you may aswell copy and paste your posts from other threads, no one wants to hear it. Yes you won't pay for a developement team to work on, maintain and redifine a game aswell as add content and stuff, but thats you, stop trying to convince others it's not worth it. Mod Note: The arguement stops here. edited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Yes peeps, let's keep this both civil and on topic. I think the thread is about the game, not the price of the game. In any case, possible prices and opinions have been brought forward, opinions expressed, now let's move on discussing the game itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QUEENSPOCK Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 I wonder like if you die in the game you get teh chance to become an ancient Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted January 13, 2008 Author Share Posted January 13, 2008 What I would like, is an option for a single player mode of some kind. I realise this would probably be difficult for an MMO, but it would make me feel better about buying the game, even if I only bought the multiplayer part every so often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QUEENSPOCK Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 i hope you would get to choose what your character looked like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 No more arguing about paying monthly? Just as well, that wasn't going anywhere. And QS - I don't think any MMORPG in the past 10 years hasn't let you customise the look of your character to some degree. I think you can rest easy on that one and I imagine if you die, you respawn. Ancients would be a bit too uber, methinks. Well, unless we follow Atlantis rules. Which would mean they sucked. Eh, MMORPGs are never going to offer you a single player experience unless it's along the lines of WoW where you had single player campaigns to set up the events of the MMO. This is by virtue of the fact that a good single player game takes a lot of time to put together... Not as long as an MMORPG but I think that it's probably fair to say you'd be adding a considerable amount of money to developing... In fact, it's my esteemed opinion that multiplayer and singleplayer gaming are going in quite different directions. MMOs are taking us toward ever bigger, more detailed, more interactive and reactive worlds with more people living their virtual lives there. Singe player games are moving toward interactive stories... dare I say, a step toward holonovels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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