SWG cost - Page 2

Zak · 29-12-2002, 17:41

If you think paying per month is unfair or expensive - try hosting 10-20 servers with 6 planets on each - each planet bigger than the entire world of Everquest for a total of *shrugs* 500k people or so - all by yourself :yes: :yes:

Go try and book that on barrysworld for the next 3 years and see what they say ;)

Precursors · 29-12-2002, 19:01

I agree Zak,
If a game like planetarion can switch to P2P, this game deserves even more.
Though a monthly charge of more than 10$ would be a bit too much.
15$ a month would make 180$ a year, which is much more than what you'd pay for domain name+web space for a site.

Def2K · 29-12-2002, 19:07

Its all about bandwith here.

Altho I agree that more then $10 a month would be to much in my opinion...

Precursors · 29-12-2002, 23:50

wow, i just noticed the effect on Patsz's banner :D
we miss that when his post's somewhere in middle of page tho :D

frank · 03-01-2003, 21:25

more spam?

Sata · 12-01-2003, 21:21

How high have prices been in the past to play MMORPGs?

And does the bandwidth (broadband in my case:D) of your computer really determin how much i pay (if anything)?

And why does that guy going on about spamming, this seems a perfectly valid thread

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razor · 13-01-2003, 09:21

You can see the price on amazon where u can pre order the game
Monthly cost i still dont know yet

Link · 15-01-2003, 20:56

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Originally posted by razor
You can see the price on amazon where u can pre order the game
Monthly cost i still dont know yet

what is it with ordering the game. explain please

Sata · 15-01-2003, 21:42

You can order (or pre-order in this case) games off the internet.

If you live i the if you live in America you can order it from www.Amazon.com, if you live in the UK you can order it from www.Amazon.co.uk by going on the Starwars galaxies site, setting up an account and pre-ordering the game.

So as soon as the game comes out (in your area) you get it almost straight away since it has first class posting.

Hope I've helped (and not been too patronising).

[M7] · 15-01-2003, 21:53

Guys, i'd be a bit careful with the preorder.....

The dev's dropped some hints that they are (still) negotiating with an external contractor to run the European servers....

chances are they do the same shit Mythic did with Daoc... namely to sell the rights to a company that would release its own, translated and modified version of the game...

Problem is, if they do this, the euro and US versions could be incompatible e.g. you cant use the euro servers with the US version and vice versa...

Since all of this isn't really clear at the mo I'd hold off from preordering at the moment... just not to take the risk to get an US version which i couldn't use on the euro server forcing me to buy the game a second time 2-3 months later.

:-|

Sata · 15-01-2003, 22:00

Wooops, I new to this whole MMORPG thing.
I wish Lucasarts would teel us this kind of thing, I noticed there were like at least 5 poll on the site on pre-ordering the game, they must be wondering if people will get upset if certain editions of the game will be incompatible with their server.
That would really strike the last cord!;(

[M7] · 15-01-2003, 22:05

I absolutely hope they are smart enough to NOT split the playerbase like this... but it could still happen.

We've got 3 months left to find out ;)

Precursors · 15-01-2003, 22:29

US is scared of Europe players (total ultimate ownage) :D

razor · 16-01-2003, 07:17

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Originally posted by Precursors
US is scared of Europe players (total ultimate ownage) :D

i have to agree with this 8)

Def2K · 16-01-2003, 07:24

I can't really see a good reason to split the player bases, actually. They might set up different servers but I guess everyone will still be able to join any server he likes...

Lantador · 17-01-2003, 12:00

They just did that exact crap like in DAoC with AC2 (Asherons Call 2), releasing it in certain countries around x-mas, then waiting with other countries till months later.

Even worse, you couldnt pay for your account unless your credit card was from these specific countries, thus utterly screwing all the people that had pre-ordered...

Sometimes gaming companies just forget that the internet makes people talk together across the world - Of course when a new online game is released, everyone wants to start and play from day 1, as to not get behind.

If they pull a stunt like this with SWG, fuck them.

Radium · 17-01-2003, 18:03

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Originally posted by Lantador
They just did that exact crap like in DAoC .......

You could always pay and play the US version of Daoc if you came from europe.

I have no idea about AC 2 tho.

[M7] · 17-01-2003, 21:30

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Originally posted by Radium
You could always pay and play the US version of Daoc if you came from Europe.

Yes, but that would require you to buy both the European and the (imported=extra expensive) US Gamebox and pay two monthly fees.. not mentioning the disk space you would need to install both versions in parallel.... and maybe some nice registry conflicts, since both games could use the same regkeys etc etc...

Def2k': the reason they do this is.. money (what else).. if they outsource the European server, the euro hoster wants to make money through box sales and wants to get fees of everyone using the server (whereas they wouldn't get fees from connecting US player), so they would have interest in making them incompatible.... OFC they would say the software is absolutely incompatible since they had to translate stuff for the German/French/whatever release.........

OK OK.. I'm pessimistic again, but i have a personal grudge with GOA (hoster of the the German/French/English DaoC servers)... the Spanish hoster never had any problems like they did....