Im hoping this gmae will be free, or at least a 1 time tag price
Hey Skyblade. Yep, would be good not to have a monthly fee or any other crap to pay. If you pay for a copy, there's no way you should have to pay to play it as well.
Why do you think they would make it free?
There's many different ways to make money from MMORPG's. One alternative to a flat-rate fee is to charge for the copy, then allow free entry to the main content, but charge for premium content. People who want to pay for extra items/clothes etc can do so, but those without the cash to blow simply on playing the game won't be left out. I think that'd be the shrewdest move right now, considering the economy.
Aren't they pushing the fact that you can play this pretty much as a single player game if you really wanted? I seem to remember reading that at one point - that you can just fill your party with NPC's, rather than real people?
If that's the case, that may be a reason for them to have no monthly fee.
And like seebaruk says, they can opt for the micro-payment method - by the time this comes out they'll be able to tell if that way really is profitable.
So... I've got to say, that last video left me somewhat confused. Is this going to be a straightforward MMO where you run round grinding for xp and lewt? I mean, how much dialogue can there really be? Isn't it all 'bring me back five clockwork strawberries for some xp and gold'? Or is it more like a multiplayer co-op version of Baldur's Gate with lightsbers?
Because, frankly, that option would be awesome.
Of course, if I really wanted to know more, I'd visit D20Radio.com and listen to the Holocron podcast. Fifteen episodes (and counting) of speculating about a game that's nowhere near release yet - that sounds like Star Wars fans to me!!
Bloody hell, don't know why I'm so surprised. The only other fans who are anywhere near as obsessive are sodding Harry Potter lovers. There's about fifty thousand Potter podcasts in existence - what can they possibly talk about each week? What Harry has on his cornflakes each morning?
Anyway, yes - multiplayer co-op Baldurs Gate with lightsabers = best idea ever. Between this and Diablo 3, I'm getting ready to lose vast amounts of my life again....
This sounds like it could be all things to all men. BG with lightsabres and real life chums? Could be. Grindfest, WoW-spanker? Could also be. Greatest game ever? Hell, why not, feel my optimism! (Shhh seebaruk, we both know what's going to be the best game ever, but I'm trying to forget about Diablo 3 for my own sanity!).
I'll be interested to see how the space combat turns out in this. TIE-Fighter, anyone?
By the way Squee, clockwork strawberries FTW!
Ahhh Tie Fighter - I remember picking that up as a nipper on White Label. Now I'm getting all nostalgic about old space combat sims - huge amounts of black, with occasional white squares to resemble stars, and grey blobs that are other spaceships. My favourite was Wing Commander IV: space sim + FMV + Mark Hamill = back of the net. Apart from the boring anti-climax talkey ending.
