kain_kusanagi said:
World of Warcraft used to come in a box. So did Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV will too. Why is it ok to charge for a high monthly premium for MMO's on PC, but it's an outrage to charge small fee for EVERYTHING on XBox Live? |
MMOs require expensive servers to keep whole persistent worlds alive and running, it's different from simpler kinds of multiplayer where computing power and connection are provided by the users, and different from charging money for whatever online multiplayer. Obviously it's fine MS charge a fee for the additional features it adds to every kind of online multiplayer, but it's also understandable that many people don't want to pay for basic online multiplayer, unless they explicitly require premium services added to it.
You are incorrectly comparing three completely different things: online persistent massive worlds, premium services and basic online. The latter mostly relies on resources provided or already paid directly by the users, their local computing power and their internet connection, while the first two rely on massive efforts and resources by the MMO owner or by the premium services provider.
