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Would you have stayed with an mmo if subscription had been cheaper
Tindale111
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The reason i ask this is because i pick and choose which games to play but would like to have tried more i believe that mmo players prob pay subscription for a couple of mmos adding up to around £20 a month games such as wow and rift so when we had subscriptions on swotor and tsw (yes i know you still can) it all adds up .I just think that these games that jump to ptp so quickly could have thought about cutting their subs would swotor have doubled its numbers if it was say £5 a month i certainly would have stuck with it .i really dont like cash shops unless they truely only have fluff items in and the complaints i have heard about swotor where you buy extra bars and ptp pvp will def stop me going back ,anyway the long and the short of it is if subs were less the more games i would try these are just my views interested to hear yours 
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Yes, I probably would've still played WoW on and off if i could do so for free or 5 bucks a month.
While i mostly grew bored of it, I'd still go back for the roleplaying community i was a part of and the new content thats released.
It's just not worth 15 anymore.
The subscription price has never been a factor for me. Either I like a game or not.
Likewise, to me, subscription price doesn't matter at all.
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No.
Actually, there are a few games that I left after they went F2P (not becouse of them going F2P, but becouse of the changes that came with that, which I did not like).
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15 bucks is nothing. Coffee costs more for a day.
It is about game being fun or not. It could be 5 bucks a month and i still wouldn't play it if gameplay bores me to death.
Very well said.
I think devs use this as an excuse nowadays , and exit surveys are skewed wordwise , as if they are trying to prove to the accounting teaming going F2P cash shop is the way to go.
If they put an option for "need more variety and gameplay options" as a choice for not subbing to a game any more it would crush the numbers picking to leave because of the fee.
So if you want to play EQ2, WoW, Rift, SWTOR, EVE, Vanguard, LoTRO all at the same time throught the month.. it's only $105 a month right..... Still chump change for everyone? hmmmmmmm
im not arguing about paying $15 a month if i found one game that i loved i would happily pay twice that but i would have tried more if they were cheaper at the momeent i pay about $30 bucks a month for subs so when games such as tsw first came out wasnt willing to fork out another $15 bucks tho i believe tsw was nearer 20
Sub prices are about the only thing in this world that has doubled or tripled in price this past decade lol. It actualy became cheaper compared to the charge by hour model they use to have.
50 cents a day (30 cents if doing long term sub) isnt the issue. Its the fact games today just suck and have no longevity and are not worthy of a monthly fee. Some games are, and dont mind paying. If the devs started to make better games id pay more. Because in the end 15 dollars a month is cheap as hell for 24/7 entertainment. Try finding cheaper.
No.
I don't play games because they are 'free', I play them because they are the ones I enjoy. My leisure time is too valuable to be spending it on something chosen on the qualifier of simply being 'free' in all honesty. The asking amount is simply not enough to be a barrier for me in any sense.
I personally don't see why the F2P Devs want the true freeloaders in their games that think around £2.50 a week is 'too much'... they really think these guys are gonna splurge in a cash shop? Maybe they just think they can wear them down over time and manipulate them into spending though... It probably works if given enough time to slow boil the frogs in all fairness.
Subscription price don't matter to me, if I enjoy it i keep playing and paying.
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I would rather a subscription mmorpg. I despise the so called free to play models with cash shops.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
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I would say yes and no. If I liked a game a lot that I felt I would put a lot of time in, the subscription never turned me off. If a game didn't feel quite right to me though, I wouldn't pay a subscription, at least not for a long time.
There have only been a couple of games that fell into the category of not being really worth the subscription to me: Vanguard and ToR. In the former game, though when I got around to playing it, it was really fun, there weren't enough people on and there was no real development. In the case of ToR, it is too linear and non-MMO like.
I also play WoW much more often than I would either of those two games so I am coming from it from the viewpoint of someone wanting a secondary MMO. I would prefer not to pay full sub price for a game that I play far less.
In both of those cases, if there had been a cheaper sub option, I would have stayed subbed.
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Same here
I have never quit a game because of the subscription cost. In some cases, I've been willing to spend more then the subscription fee in order to enjoy a particular game even more through additional subscriptions (pre-CU SWG: looking at you).
If a game is fun enough, I'll pay.
That said, I do prefer having a free trial being made available to me before jumping in with my credit card. I recently subbed to both Rift and Eve because they let me test it out first.
a 15 buck a month subscription does not bother me not in the least. Heck I spend that in 2 days on lunch alone. If you are that cheep to not be able to afford 15 bucks a month you probably don't have the cash to have internet.
Honestly the only reason why I don't pay a sub is if I don't like a game.
Now that I say this some games that have a sub I would not play like swtor, yes it is free to play but with a lot of lockouts and imho that game shoudl bee buy to play.
You make a good game I will sub up, if not well there are plenty of games to play.
i would. The problem is not the 15$ a month.
The problem is if you are constantly buying new games, and trying out other games, it get very expensive try to keep the subscription for multiple games.