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why are they charging $5 a month to post on public forum?
hercules
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ok would have asked them if i could but since free registration cannot post asking here
i registered a while ago when game was new but forgot my access(was free registration also) so did it again
then i noticed you cannot post at all.checked and you can if you pay $5 a month for a game which is not even beta yet.heck even the basic pledge does not give you beta but it gives you access to post on forum.
Surely ,this appears greedy to deny people without paying access to a message board ?
i registered a while ago when game was new but forgot my access(was free registration also) so did it again
then i noticed you cannot post at all.checked and you can if you pay $5 a month for a game which is not even beta yet.heck even the basic pledge does not give you beta but it gives you access to post on forum.
Surely ,this appears greedy to deny people without paying access to a message board ?
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Quite clearly says public forum so nothing private about it
marketing is vital for any mmorpg esp. one with a niche audience.
if you have a forum which only people pay can access be rest assured many will lose interest .
i and my brother are big EQ fans so clearly have interest in this game and bought and played vanguard as well.
Both of us find it a bit fishy charging for a public forum .wonder how many ex EQ fans like us are troubled by this.
i be waiting for reviews post launch tbh before pledging my money based on this
Not sure fans like you are selling the game well
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So the forum isn't for players, the forum is for patrons.
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I've never had to pay to post in any mmorpg forum ever. wtf are you on about?
"Public" refers to the ability to view them, and yes in most forums post for free but you are still under the rules of the private company that runs the forums.
Reddit is a "public"forum but much of the content is moderated to death. If it were a true "public" forum free speech would be allowed it's clearly not. Same with this site at anytime they could change their mind and say hey we are getting rid of ads and charging $1/month to post why? Because these are private forums run by a private company.
Bartoni's Law definition: As an Internet discussion grows volatile, the probability of a comparison involving Donald Trump approaches 1.
There have been sub-based AAA MMO's in the past that have restricted posting rights on their forums to currently active accounts only. It's nothing new, you just rarely see it anymore because F2P has made "currently active account" largely meaningless.
The owner of a site or forum has the right to set whatever rules they like regarding access to the content.
In this case, they obviously feel that excluding "random noise" from their forums is more beneficial than allowing free access.
I doubt monetising forums at 5$/month is their bread and butter in terms of funding.
The most likely reason is they don't want free non-paying members posting on their forums. After checking the links posted, if a person purchases any game pledge, they get full access to the forums by default (no extra purchase necessary). If you don't own the game, you can pay 5$ a month for forum access only.
There are a number of reasons a developer might want to do this:
There are reasons why you might not want to restrict forum access:
The developers made a decision that the positives of restricting access outweigh the negatives. I doubt the 5$ fee has much to do with it - the number of people only paying for forum access and not for the game has to be minuscule.
Also, keep in mind the number of people using forums in general is tiny. 95%+ of players will never visit the forums. Out of those who do, the number of people who would be active on the forums, without buying the game, is even smaller. You may very well be one of those people - if you are though, keep in mind you are a tiny majority of a tiny majority.
The number of people who would buy the game, due to already being active on the forums, is negligible in the grand scheme of things.
I wasn't aware of this. I have gone and browsed their forums a few times when I was bored but never created a forum account and tried to post.
It seems kind of funny to me. Only people who have already drank the koolaid can post. Of course their comments are going to be overwhelmingly positive and fawning. Apparently the devs of pantheon only want to hear from sycophantic yes-men.
The emperor has no clothes? I guess in this case he'll never know because only people who like looking at his hairy arse are allowed to talk.
I always tell people if you want to talk about a game, especially criticize a game, you come to a place like MMORPG, and even that sometimes is problematic.
This helps to keep out spam attacks and trolls who have no vested interest in the game.
However, I suspect the $5 charge exists largely to avoid random destructive criticism and the general negativity that's so popular in most open gaming forums.
I self identify as a monkey.
so yeah, pay to post, pay extra to not have to deal with the 'rabble' that may have a differing view (read:doesnt believe EQ or vanguard are the height of western culture)