Planetside Update

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  I still don't understand you guys' aversion to monthly fees. These games are designed to give you an or... : Vantage
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    FPS typically rely on fan run servers. Thus, we get a lot of value for free. I am spoiled by this an : cot
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      No. The initial $60 purchase price pays for the development of the game, just like any other game. ... : Vantage
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        "The initial $60 purchase price pays for the development of the game, just like any other game." But ... : cot
        • did i mention that it breaks down to $.35 a day... : skitzo
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          The thing is, these are MASSIVELY multiplayer online games. The ONLY way to have them MASSIVELY multipl... : Vantage
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            Agreed. If the game itself is fun to play, then I would pony up the $10 per month to play it. I've never... : Quagmire
            • Didn't work out too well for Blizzard, apparently : indeego
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            you don't have to put massively in caps :P : firebone
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              oh, but I do... the clowns made me do it : Vantage
              • http://www.shugashack.com/funk.y?error=<EMBED%20autostart=true%20hidden=true%20SRC=http://crapontoast.tr... : cot
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            Am i interacting in a meaninful way with thousands of people at once? I don't think I'm capable of th... : cot
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              Actually, this is EXACTLY what will make Neverwinter Nights so cool. :) The servers are player-run, but... : Vantage
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                indeed. no monthly charge, though. Blizzard funds battle.net for free, too. : freshview
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                  battle.net is a matching service more than a hosting service. : Vantage
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                    battle.net is just a matching service, but they store all the diablo characters. : freshview
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                      right. The vault will be like that, except it "measures" the progress of the character while it was che... : Vantage
                      • yeah, I looked at the faq. : ) It will be THE game of the year, I think... unless I like b&w bette... : freshview
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                The wouldn't work for the everquest-type game however, because it still relies on fans for the content a... : Vantage
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                  I am basically a student. If I was paying $10 a month for a few games that wouldn't be nothing. : cot
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                    $10 ain't even a nights worth of drinkin : firebone
                    • I am a student who doesn't live off his parents. The only reason I'm not dirt poor as I was a few ye... : cot
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                    work for an hour, play for 300. don't tell me that's not money well spent. Do you go see movies? How ... : Vantage
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                      I VERY rarely go see movies in the theater. Maybe 1 every 3 or 4 months, literally. : cot
                      • I hate going to the theater, people always talking during movies, phones going off, somebody with huge h... : Anti_dentite
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                        ok, so you can't afford to play.. that doesn't make the $10 ridiculous, it just means you don't have the... : Vantage
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                          It means that I could afford to play, but that it isn't a negligible amount of money to me and I would r... : cot
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                            which is fine, but that STILL doesn't make the $10 ridiculous or a waste of money or too expensive. : Vantage
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                              shit dude, you mean people would rather pay $10 on a stupid game than $5 on a pr0n site? wtf is wron... : firebone
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                                pay for pr0n? I don't understand... : Vantage
                                • It boggles the mind... : cot
                        • a new video card for $500 is ridiculous whether I can afford it or not. : freshview
                        • Youd have to be destitute to not be able to afford that, and I'm not claiming that I am. Obviously I'm... : cot
                      • kenny you poor! That being said...I will not be doing anything for the next 5 or so months in order to... : Ominous
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                      $7.50 for the ticket/$3.50 for the coke/$4.00 for the popcorn... 15 bux x 2(for the chick you are with) ... : skitzo
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                        right. all for 2 hours of entertainment, vs. the same amount of money for virtually unlimited hours of ... : Vantage
                        • Yeah, but after the movie you get to play your own FPS with the girl you are with... if you get my drift : skitzo
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                I was gonna suggest that but i didn't want to ramble - there could be a central server like the auth ser... : cot
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                  third person party-based 3D AD&D rpg. : Vantage
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                    "Third person" ehh, ok "party-based" sounds good "3D" of course "AD&D rpg" ya lost ... : cot
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                      ummm.. like Baldur's Gate, but 3D and an emphasis on multiplayer. : Vantage
                      • heh, never played BG. I think i may have played a diablo demo or something along the line - that's pr... : cot
                • it's an RPG up to 64 players per server at once. AD&D 3rd edition rules. : freshview
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            So do u mean a game like diablo ain't a massively game. They only charge you once for playing it all you... : .css
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              you are correct. Diablo is not a massively multiplayer online game. How many people can occupy a diabl... : Vantage
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                yeah but you were talking hardware wise. I'm sure that Blizzard has a whole bunch of servers running as w... : .css
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                  Uh.. hosting stats and chat rooms is SLIGHTLY less cpu intensive than hosting an immense static 3D world... : Vantage
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                    Static my ass, "it's ALIVE!" : avixe
                    • Static in the sense that the world itself is static, whereas the content within the world is not. : Vantage
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                    depends how you look at it. I tried Asherons Call but never played EQ. I must say i wasn't very impresse... : .css
                    • I don't disagree that the current crop of games leaves much to be desired. EQ and AC are poor games. H... : Vantage
      • #34 ID are not responsible for the servers i play on. Therefore i have to connect on local private serv... : yffern
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    Basically it's $.35 a day. : skitzo
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      to help young diseased children in africa? : firebone
      • prolly : skitzo
  • i'd definitely go for the steak... but it would be closer to $15. :-P speaking of steak, i recently h... : jvox
  • You just had to throw in the comment about the steak, huh?! : indeego
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    It's a psychological measure, for most of us. We don't want to play a game once and then feel lik : indeego
    • Also, what happens if I decide to stop playing for a few months? If I stop paying, there goes my charac... : avixe
    • Well, 40,000 people at any one time obviously have different sentiments. ;) : Vantage
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  besides , by having a monthly fee, theyre not reaching people who dont have credit cards , which i would... : Fat~Asss
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    you can use debit cards and shit nowadays, jackanape : firebone
    • I AM POOR! : Fat~Asss