So I'm hooked on WoW
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Well, there are private servers for World of Warcraft. People have managed to set those up, and every once in a while someone will tell me 'I'm playing WoW for free! Weeee!' because of it.SimpleMinded said:
There's also Neverwinter Nights. Although the game is one of the worst ever made, it does boast the ability to host "small" games like that. They were far from stable, though.
And Snake: a mod community can easily crank out all that. Provided they have decent mod tools.
Neverwinter Nights itself was....acceptable, at the time I was mostly amazed by the graphics of the game, now when they relesed the "hordes of the underdark" expansion thats when I got excited about NWN 2. And the fanmade mods to it are endless, try dreamcatcher if your interested.
Anyway, fan made mods always takes time, if you had it as your occupation 8h a day it might be worth it, in the sence of not paying each month for an continuesly updated mmorpg when you can get fanmade ones.
But its not only about them updating the game, they also stop any game ruining hacks made by the "fans" and balance the game as far as possible. Waiting for mods for wow would ruin the game and noone would play it at all.
Anyway, fan made mods always takes time, if you had it as your occupation 8h a day it might be worth it, in the sence of not paying each month for an continuesly updated mmorpg when you can get fanmade ones.
But its not only about them updating the game, they also stop any game ruining hacks made by the "fans" and balance the game as far as possible. Waiting for mods for wow would ruin the game and noone would play it at all.
Snake said:
That is till they deem it no longer a big enough money milk cow and pull the plug. Then you are still saddled with a 50 dollar hunk of crap you can't use anymore.
Don't get me wrong if you enjoy paying 50 bucks for a product, and then paying to use said item, then a while down the road not being able to use said item at all, be my guest and enjoy it for the time the manufacturers deem it 'worthy' (Read, enough money coming in) of their time to run.
Cheers Thorgrimm
"the second WoW is not making enough money for them they WILL pull the plug."
In other words: when WoW stops making enough money for them, they will pull the plug.
That kind of second, the noun, used proverbially.
In other words: when WoW stops making enough money for them, they will pull the plug.
That kind of second, the noun, used proverbially.
meh, there are like 100 servers right now for the game. Presumably they would just reduce the number of servers as the years pass, reduce the new content additions and generally downscale the game realms, but never turn them off completely.
And you buy $50 for the software to render the environment. You pay a monthly fee to interact with the world environment, and meet people from all over. My guild has some interesting people, and I've even had a chance to flirt with Skenvoy!
The montly subsctiption is nothing different than the subscription I pay for my tivo and satellite radio. You are paying for a service, and as soon as you perceive it as a service you will no longer see the same problems with it Thorgrimm.
Oh, and I'm two levels from getting a mount!
And you buy $50 for the software to render the environment. You pay a monthly fee to interact with the world environment, and meet people from all over. My guild has some interesting people, and I've even had a chance to flirt with Skenvoy!
The montly subsctiption is nothing different than the subscription I pay for my tivo and satellite radio. You are paying for a service, and as soon as you perceive it as a service you will no longer see the same problems with it Thorgrimm.
Oh, and I'm two levels from getting a mount!
He wrote "...the second WoW is not making enough money...", as in "...the moment WoW is not making enough money...". Get it?Snake said:
But I wouldn't worry about WoW shutting down in foreseeable future. It has a staggering number of players. At worst, they might decide to shut down some servers if they become underpopulated. Even if the game hadn't achieved expected sales, they would still likely keep supporting for a long time. Discontinuing support for an MMOG is a very drastic and unprofessional measure that bears terrible PR, so most companies will rather keep cutting expenses and offering various opportunities indefinitely (for example - FunCom was clever enough to offer basic Anarchy Online for free when faced with a tremendous loss of players due to WoW coming out). Just look at SOE's Star Wars Galaxies, which keeps getting new content despite that fact that it's Hiroshima of MMORPGs. The only company that I know of that pulled the plug on an MMO game and fucked over thousands of customers is EA, but knowing their usual practices, the poor suckers who bought Earth & Beyond should have seen something like that coming.
thor, you bought a modem to use the line of the ISP. in the same way you paid for the boxed World of Warcraft. however, WoW updates at least once a month, including added content (new instances, new gear, new quests, new skins & even new countries on the long run) and bug fixes. furthermore blizzard has to keep HUGE numbers of servers running in tip top shape, as well as paying for their own heavy duty dedicated lines & traffic (trust me, those things are FAR from cheap.
(btw a single "WoW server" is in fact a whole CLUSTER of servers)
if you go for the cost aspect, i used to buy a 50 euro game monthly, now i've been focused on WoW so much that i'm only spending the 11 euros each month for that subscription.
(btw a single "WoW server" is in fact a whole CLUSTER of servers)
if you go for the cost aspect, i used to buy a 50 euro game monthly, now i've been focused on WoW so much that i'm only spending the 11 euros each month for that subscription.
A better analogy would be the one-time activation fee most ISPs charge (well, at least here they do).SuAside said:
It all comes down to how high entertainment value of the game is to you and how much you are willing to pay for it. If a game resonates exceptionally well with me, I have no second thoughts about paying whatever fees are necessary to play it. Thorgrimm, much like myself, finds that fun factor of an average MMORPG doesn't justify the amount of money required to play and risk of the game getting discontinued due to insufficient interest. However, I intend to play World of Warcraft because it is incredibly fun and because many of my friends play it. I'm not at all pleased with the fact that this experience will cost me $15/month, but what the heck - I will rather spend $15 on something I enjoy than $1 on something I don't give a damn about.
The Vault Dweller
always looking for water.
Ratty said:
???
In Croatia hooker's cost $15!?! The fee for WoW is only one dollar?!
,The Vault Dweller
Yeah, Cambebridge hands these out like fliers, I have one too.
Anyways, I spit on anyone who asks me to pay for playing a game if I've already bought it. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.
Anyways, I spit on anyone who asks me to pay for playing a game if I've already bought it. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.
Snake said:
You meant to say "Well I am but a swede with a Cambridge certificate of advanced English. Add a when or if in front of the sentence and I would have gotten it." right?
Please tell me I just didn't get the joke and you intentionally misspelled everything.
Then stop spamming my thread. Go play something offline.DirtyDreamDesigner said:
Perhaps, but that gives little comfort since you were extolling your grammatical abilities while blatantly misspelling them. There is a spellcheck button, so those are not very forgivable, whereas grammar is more difficult.
So, where is everyone's favorite place to adventure so far? I was a fan of Westfall myself, especially the cliched yet always fun pirate treasure quest! And stranglethorn has lots of cool stuff too, including the mithril I seek!
edit: grammari was hiding at the end of the line!
So, where is everyone's favorite place to adventure so far? I was a fan of Westfall myself, especially the cliched yet always fun pirate treasure quest! And stranglethorn has lots of cool stuff too, including the mithril I seek!
edit: grammari was hiding at the end of the line!