Somonah said:
The Pinray said:
I would, but MMOs with subscriptions are gross wastes of money. In a year of playing one game I've bought it three times over.
Then they make me pay for expansions.
Yeah, no thanks.
Sucks because it looks pretty good, but no game is worth over a hundred dollars a year.
I'll use WoW as an example since you generalised it to MMOs and WoW is the easiest example.
Yes in the space of a year you've bought it 3 times or whatever. But in that year it will go through multiple huge patches adding a tonne of new content, it's a persistent world, there's no end to the game. There are no 3 games that you could buy (unless you bought Skyrim 3 times....maybe) that can provide as much content and things to do than a MMO can.
Cthulhu Saves the World & Breath of Death VII, Terraria, Dungeons of Dredmor, Bastion, and the latest indie bundle (super meat boy, Shank, nightsky, gratuitous space battles, jamestown, bit.trip runner, cave story+, crayon physics deluxe, cogs, VVVVVV, Hammerfight, And Yet It Moves) - all for less than a months worth of TOR.
Cthulhu Saves the World & Breath of Death VII at £0.68, bundle at £4, Bastion £4, Terraria £1.50, Dredmor £0.86
Not to even mention all the F2P MMOs I could try, or any of the (far too) many games I have already paid for but not completed, the ones I've paid for and would enjoy completing again, playing online multiplayer in TF2 or MNC, playing Guild Wars or even browsing the app store on my phone.
The "there's more in the MMO" argument simply does not hold up under scrutiny.
It's a shame really, because I would really like to try it, but subscriptions are something I'm going to avoid - regardless of how little they are, or how much enjoyment I get out of them, I'd prefer to spend my money on my own terms.
The problem is, as soon as I'm paying per month, I have to play as much as I can to improve my value/hour, And I don't really fancy that. I tend to only play a couple hours a day, and usually a different game every day. And if I stop paying, I can't play, thereby wasting not only the £45 initial investment, but every monthly payment since then.
Also Bioware should bring out some form of demo... Even if I overcame my incredible disdain for subscription fees, I don't even know if it would run on my laptop (hopefully my main pc can be fixed sometime soon)
Hoping Guild Wars 2 will sate my MMO-lust. Tried WoW today and couldn't stand it.