only games on the p2p list ive heard about is everquest, runescape membership, WoW, dungeons and dragons
i heard bout 8 of the f2p games

dungeons and dragons online is free to play now

anyone who is complaining is just to cheap to pay a monthly fee for a game they may love.

Sure it should be pay to play. PAY TO BUY THE DAMN GAME.

paying a one time fee is enough, theres also some people who would pay a 2nd fee for a expansion, over all that is the electric bill

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If you don't pay for runescape your missing out on a lot of content. To all of the people that say "said game is f2p now" it only goes to prove the big point. Some games cannot live with monthly fees. D3 would be a disaster if it were p2p. D1 and D2 are f2p after the initial purchase. If they change it will suffer. Especially since a lot of D2 fans are already skeptical about D3.

this comment +1

he gave a nice answer to all your problems. pay for the game to make it real.

adding this to his comment: less cheats more serious ppl and ofc constant GM's that is acctuly really really really good to have in hand

i actually agree to this.. but 15$ a month? Thats too greedy for me.. not that i am poor, but 180 $ a year for pixels is a non-sense.. 5 $ a month, and im in!

P2P does not mean less cheats.
And his answer is actually wrong.
And making people pay money per month doesn't attract them, as I said before.
It pushes other people away.
And you would be surprised about how many people can't afford to pay $10-$15 a month.

This post was edited by Boogersnot308 on Nov 8 2010 11:57pm

This was mentioned by someone else, but, just because you have to pay, it does not mean nor does it guarantee any less bots/cheats/hacks/dupes/spammers. And does it matter if tis well spoken English or not? oO



Lets make an rough estimate; Say the game itself costs $40 too $50 (for sake of easier math, $45). Lets say at least an amount of 10million Blizzard fans (probably more if you look at how amazing the game looks thus far), that is already an amount of $450'000'00 (450 million). Now lets look at all the extra money Blizzard makes on World of Warcraft alone every month. ~~ Their monthly fee times 15million or so (can't recall, and many, many got more than one account).

Now my question to you is; Do you honestly think they lack, or will ever lack the small amount of money to ensure a proper working anti-cheat/bot/hacker mechanics and update content?

Also keep in mind that the mechanics they have now are far different from D2, reason it haven't been changed; they would have to redo every single core code for the entire game. Basically re-write the game.

You talk as if you know how a Fortune 500+ company works, yet it is quite obvious you don't, nor did you do any research at all.

Conclussion; No, making it a monthly fee cost will not ensure those points you brought up. They can and most likely will do that with their current mechanics, if you look at WoW and SC2 you can see the difference compared to the D2 mechanics to deal with it.



You can't compare NCSOFT with Blizzard. So not even gonna bother responding to that one.



Again, different time, new technology. Making it a pay-to-play will just make them lose a lot of customers, and if you calculate, the earn they get in a few months is about the same if not less than making it non-pay-to-play and just increase the purchase cost.

D2 a shit hole? How come there's still so many people playing it, after so many many years? Your comment doesn't make sense.

Sure, there's bots and dupers that lessens the fun of the game, but there's still a lot of real players, and so many people you can meet and play with.

~~ I'm not saying I want an exact replica of D2, but making it pay-to-play will not ensure anything of what you've said. Blizzards mechanics in there games these days will. Not to mention all of their eula's will put so botters/spammers in a dead-lock right away.



Opinion/flames above.

Donation, pass on that =)

This post was edited by Smaaen on Nov 8 2010 11:50pm