| vlad321 said:
I don't see how Sony can't expect them to be paying monthly fees. First off they bought a PS3 which in itself signifies the person has enough cash to burn on a luxury items/service. Second off MMO's are MMO's they do need to be upkept, and every single game has its own costs. Also monthly fees are generally 15 dollars per game. It's been like that nearly forever, with the exception of some of the MMO's that take less money to be upkept. |
Well if they charge $15/month per MMO game, then it's gonna fail bad. Imagine if you buy DC Universe, The Agency, Free Realms, MAG, NCSoft MMO game, that's 75 bucks a month. It would be even worse for the 360 because you also pay for Live.
It's worth remembering that MMORPGs have never taken off on consoles, EQ didn't have a fraction of sales and success of its PC counterpart, FFXI bombed (First FF main entry that didn't sell one million and it was across 3 platforms). I really believe that if they want MMO games to be succesful on consoles they either have to charge a flat monthly fees for all games or get their money through microtransactions like DLC and expansions, and also through (non intrusive) advertising in game.
They are able to charge a fee on the PC MMO games because the "userbase" for the PC is ridiculous and a lot of PC owners don't own a console. I don't think that business model would work for consoles.
