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Reasonable said:
CAL4M1TY said:
This may actually come back to bite them on the bum.

I know when I used to have the 360 and XBL, I would play as much as I could (till my hearts content) because I knew that I only had a limited time with it.

Now on the PS3, I don't find myself playing as oftenly, only going crazy (like I did in the 360 days) when I'm about to have my internet capped.

If they don't charge a monthly fee, I don't think people will come back to it unless it is truly amazing (which it could be) and if people continually drop out of playing the game, there's less incentive to start playing or continue playing (like what happened wth CoD W@W after about 6 months, A LOT of people went back to CoD4).

I dunno, the deal breaker here is whether or not it's a good game (I'm sure if Warhawk was launched without any bugs but with a monthly subscription cost, people would still play it). Of course with Warhawk being free, it'll be tough to charge for MAG (so I guess it's obvious then that it was going to be free?).

 

Glad that works for you.  I however don't need to pay for something to feel pressue to use it so I'm quite happy to have it free personally.

 

Wow, I should be really worried if that's how people view paying for Xbox Live....

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Um.... Hi.

My name is IllegalPaladin, and I've been playing a game like Counter-Strike (and it's iterations) for around 7 years and believe it or not, I don't have to pay a montly or yearly fee to play it.



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Sorry for my ignorance but wasn't the PSN a free service?



ctk495 said:
Sorry for my ignorance but wasn't the PSN a free service?

 

PSN is a free servive.  There were (I think) some rimours MAG though, due to its nature, might have a fee to play that particular game - i.e. the game had the fee not the service.



Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...

ctk495 said:
Sorry for my ignorance but wasn't the PSN a free service?

 

 

there been a rumor that MAG would be a monthly fee, however this video proved it wrong.



At least in the sense that you could at least play the game. However, the video kind of left me wondering what else they'll try to do instead.

Will there be excessive DLC that you have to buy? Will they be like MGO and charge for making characters and such?



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Sardauk said:
Jo21 said:

PSN Free.... wasn't hard to guess.

sony it's commited to their free online thing, they put it as gamer's right.

 

Nothing is free...

Playing online on the ps3 is. Atleast from sony doesn't increase your internet bill :p

 



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Huh?! Why would it not be free? MAG isn't an MMO. LOL some of you really think they would put a monthly fee on a game that only supports 256 players per server at most?



Awesome!

Shall be a definate buy now



                            

NanakiXI said:
Jo21 said:
NanakiXI said:
Jo21 said:

PSN Free.... wasn't hard to guess.

sony it's commited to their free online thing, they put it as gamer's right.

 

PSN should establish a donation kinda like Paypal Donations. I'm sure people who have a little money left over in their PSN wallet wouldn't mind donating money every once in a while and it would be completly optional to the user.

As long as the money goes toward servers and the development of PSN people would be greatly appreciative in this, which may also lead to more donations.

they set Qore for that... by doing so u get exclusive demos and inteviews.

 

 

I'm not too interested in Qore myself and exclusive demos really don't catch my attention. I rather just throw them a couple of bucks here and there. Mostly the money left over in my wallet that is basically useless.

So make it optional is better than a Flat fee per year?

I don't get why People would want to Donate...I understand Offering the whole Exclusive Demo's and Interviews....But Why Not just make a membership...Errmm Whatever....

This by the way makes the whole XBL sucks cuz it's 50$ argument stupid...

 



 



Sounds great! This game might just take the crown from Warhawk as my favorite online game. I have to say that I actually like having a multiplayer only game. It seems like Sony has a few of these coming, with the rumored Warhawk sequel and MAG, and I'm fine with that.

I can't wait for this game! =D