07-03-2003, 01:49 AM
Sony is doing it now and Mythic will be doing it when Imperator arrives.
The key is bundleing - like subscribing to a game service rather to a game. It has 2 adavanatges. It gets people trying your new mmorp with out forcing them to abandon your old one. And it lets you continue to pull some profit in on older games.
At the moment Sony has Everquest(very little pvp with a long exp grind) and Planetside(all pvp and fast lvling). Both are very different and it allows players to get multiple gaming expseriences while your one company gets all the money.
They are currently $20 a monyh together. When EQ2 comes out it wont raise your subscrription price to play all 3.
I think in 5 years any mmorp company that isnt offering bundled games will be out of the loop. Of course in the case of D3 it might be too much like WoW.
Pure speculation - maybe the higher ups killed D3 because it would be too much like WoW ?
The key is bundleing - like subscribing to a game service rather to a game. It has 2 adavanatges. It gets people trying your new mmorp with out forcing them to abandon your old one. And it lets you continue to pull some profit in on older games.
At the moment Sony has Everquest(very little pvp with a long exp grind) and Planetside(all pvp and fast lvling). Both are very different and it allows players to get multiple gaming expseriences while your one company gets all the money.
They are currently $20 a monyh together. When EQ2 comes out it wont raise your subscrription price to play all 3.
I think in 5 years any mmorp company that isnt offering bundled games will be out of the loop. Of course in the case of D3 it might be too much like WoW.
Pure speculation - maybe the higher ups killed D3 because it would be too much like WoW ?