01-10-2004, 01:24 AM
But really its not much money for what you get.
As a relative part of a computer gaming budget, it is a *ton* of money for what you get. About $150 if you play a year, about $400 if you play 3. For one game. You could have a library full of all-time great games for that kind of money (not to mention a lot of extraordinary free options from Angband to RTCW: Enemy Territory). And this for a genre which has some serious shortcomings besides price. Simply put, any pay-to-play MMORPG is a terrible purchase unless it provides a degree of entertainment that no other type of computer game can even come close to (which for some people may be the case, sure), or you are so rich that a few hundred dollars is deemed negligable.
As a relative part of a computer gaming budget, it is a *ton* of money for what you get. About $150 if you play a year, about $400 if you play 3. For one game. You could have a library full of all-time great games for that kind of money (not to mention a lot of extraordinary free options from Angband to RTCW: Enemy Territory). And this for a genre which has some serious shortcomings besides price. Simply put, any pay-to-play MMORPG is a terrible purchase unless it provides a degree of entertainment that no other type of computer game can even come close to (which for some people may be the case, sure), or you are so rich that a few hundred dollars is deemed negligable.