Rumor: Sony Considers Monthly Subscription for MAG

And so it begins. I was sure that Sony was going to wait until after the holidays to start leaking their new strategy for recouping their online losses but it looks like it's creeping out early. This is only the beginning folks. It's a good bet that the SOE model will become more and more a part of the PS3 online system, especially for games that require a complicated backbone such as hosted servers for MAG and Resistance 2.

Additionally... this is the intro to the survey
Choose from different private armies to battle for the world's natural resources in an epic tug-of-war.
• Join a squad made up of other gamers as part of a larger organized battle group.
• Gain skills in areas such as weapons usage and military tactics and become a specialist within your squad like a sniper, demolitions expert or field medic.
• Earn the ability to command one or multiple squads where you will assign objectives, create strategies, and deploy resources such as air strikes or reinforcements.
• Help your character progress and grow, and develop a world status based on your group's wins or losses against the rest of the world.

I took the survey the questions ranged from different subscription methods i.e monthly to yearly for different price ranges. With the different subscription methods there were different benefits like a supported clan web page, dedicated servers with options to customize rules, etc. Also other things for customization of your character, a "playing card" which has your stats and is viewable to other players stuff like that. Also they had other payment methods, micro transactions, no monthly/ yearly subscription however if you had a clan and wanted a supported web page the clan members ponied up a couple of buck for a one time fee. All and all the options presented were decent and some of them interesting to see how they turn out. With the options it seem like they were tying to figure out what people were willing to pay for, what they were looking for in this type of game. Defiantly a wait and see after all it's just a survey that did not name the game just that it was some new wammadine MMO/FPS/Action game.

256 players is pretty small for a persistent world MMO requiring a monthly fee.

Hopefully everyone that took the survey wasn't MENTALLY FUCKING STUPID and answered that they won't pay, goddamn.

If true, and that IS an IF at this point, then there goes Sony fanboy's argument that PS3 multiplayer is free.

They aren't exploring the possibility like they made this game and then thought - "gee lets charge a monthly fee for this"

The MAG project was an action MMO from the beginning.