Massively Multiplayer Online Games

[nobbie]

Well, there are more updates and patches in MMOG's, and there are also more costs for support personnel, hardware, ISP's, bandwidth etc. Still, there is a huge profit left once the sales reach the 400,000-500,000 mark or more. Sales over 1,000,000 grant immense profits, provided the monthly fees are about 10-15$. Bolty has put the catch of MMOG's nicely in the intro to his UXO Event article, and here is the quote again:

I'm not much of a fan of this new-fangled fad known as massively multiplayer games. Not that they're not good games; it's just that I've always been against the pay model that they all adopt. You pay money to buy the game - and then you pay money on TOP of that, every month, for the right to play the game. I have yet to see one of these games that warrants my shelling out monthly bucks. Much of their profit system seems to come from the fact that you get addicted, and the time/money investment you have already put in to the game will force you to keep playing, long after you've grown tired and bored of it all.

I agree 100% with that opinion, especially with what I have marked in bold.