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Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Jul 4, 2011 5:58:33 GMT -5
You're doing a fine job of talking me out of a Gold sub! Paying a few bucks now again for something I want doesn't hurt nearly as bad as a single $300 hit. t's not about affordability, it's about justification. Actually though, if I pay the $300 outright, I won't feel that obligation...it's there whenever I want to play. it's the monthly that makes me feel pressured. Oh well, plenty of time to think it over. As I said for now, I'm perfectly happy the way things are. I appreciate your opinions Cookie! I certainly find it amusing that I've created the best argument for giving cryptic the most money. Even stranger is Cryptic wants you to sub up and give them LESS money.
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Post by karma23 on Jul 4, 2011 11:15:03 GMT -5
I certainly find it amusing that I've created the best argument for giving cryptic the most money. Even stranger is Cryptic wants you to sub up and give them LESS money. [/quote] I think Cryptic are banking on your earlier comment : will we be playing this game in two years? Many won't be and if they can be tempted into paying the $300 Cryptic may well come out ahead. That's precisely the decision I'm trying to make. Does it have the kind of long term appeal that will keep me happily coming back for many years or not? Spreading a few hundred dollars worth of entertainment out over a few years isn't so bad. Especially considering the cost of most entertainments these days.
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Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Jul 4, 2011 16:31:51 GMT -5
Well, personally, it isn't about overall cost for me. It's about how much I can plop down in one go. Three hundred is much too much for me.
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Post by squirrelloid on Jul 5, 2011 9:46:41 GMT -5
Your math is off.
Gold subs also get:
+4 bank slots per character (unlockable with in-game currency rather than real-life money): 320x4 = 1280AT +90 AH slots per character at 200AT per 10 is another 1800 AT *per character*
So that's another 3080 AT per character for full gold emulation as possible, which is +18080AT for regular gold, or +43120AT for lifetime.
And of course going gold gives you $5 of AT each month (400AT), and has 3 key features silver accounts can't emulate: freeform powers, higher gold cap, and power tinting.
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Post by Starboard_Nacelle on Jul 11, 2011 13:13:31 GMT -5
Updated the figures to include the cost of free hideouts for Gold members. I'll run the math using Squirrelloid's updated figures tomorrow.
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Post by cp24eva on Jul 13, 2011 5:34:19 GMT -5
People could very well be playing CO two years from now. Comics are a genre that has really gotten old and people will always want to create their own fantasy of a character. They've made great strides on content and always bringing out something new. It's only a matter of what over company will trump them in the Comic genre. CoH is going F2P soon. It's luster has faded significantly even with the graphics upgrade. DCUO is kinda meh at the moment. Played it for a few months. Has ALOT of room for improvement. Comics genre has never been the popular genre, but there will always be a fan base for it.
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Post by Starboard_Nacelle on Jul 13, 2011 8:48:11 GMT -5
A day late, but the new figures including bank slots and auction house slots are up. The difference is pretty dramatic.
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Post by Allenric on Jul 13, 2011 11:42:13 GMT -5
People could very well be playing CO two years from now. Comics are a genre that has really gotten old and people will always want to create their own fantasy of a character. They've made great strides on content and always bringing out something new. It's only a matter of what over company will trump them in the Comic genre. CoH is going F2P soon. It's luster has faded significantly even with the graphics upgrade. DCUO is kinda meh at the moment. Played it for a few months. Has ALOT of room for improvement. Comics genre has never been the popular genre, but there will always be a fan base for it. I'll vouch for players being around for the long haul. I played CoH since 2006 before I decided to leave as a result of my daughter's birth this past October. In all that time, I wish they had a LTS offer to their players. This of course was well before the F2P announcement for the game. Overall, the fantasy genre seems to win out in the MMO arms race as it were. But since to me these various sword and sorcery games all seem to follow predictable patterns, it was refreshing to find something new at the time. Does the Super Hero MMO market have a smaller player base overall? Yes. But the potential for growth is there in spades. I predict that most of the games out there will adopt a micro- transaction (F2P) model as this trend proves to renew interest and growth. Now it becomes a matter of content and perks for the players.
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Post by Starboard_Nacelle on Jul 22, 2011 9:46:20 GMT -5
UPDATE: The cost of The Disciple archetype has been added to the analyses.
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Post by delcar on Oct 5, 2011 10:40:43 GMT -5
I'm in agreement with the sense of 'obligation' or 'work' for the subscription - what I came to refer to as an 'idiot tax' with my having a WoW account (that I wasn't playing, making me the idiot) drove me off.
CO's character creator, and flexibility is what got me to spend a chunk of my tax return on my lifetime membership - its almost the exact opposite mindset - if I don't play for a while, I'll come back to c-store points and new content. It's been worth it to me, and I want to thank the OP for taking the time to run the numbers.
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Post by dumbcollide on Nov 16, 2011 11:59:00 GMT -5
This topic meant the way you didn't want to mean, I know you meant that Gold has more features, but that explains that this game is not as it's title says : "FREE FOR ALL". When I looked into this topic, I already knew that Silver is missing a lot of features, BUT, actually, when I read this topic, I got so annoyed that I decided to close the patching, but again, I'll give it a try.
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