New FF MMO

[Avarice-ness]

If you want to make a huge amount of money you would and one example of a game doesn't really pull in the point and the reason that XI and Wow doesn't have more players is particularly because a lot of people agree that that is too much. Everybody might not have money like you and I know I don't. Especially in these times it's a bit ridiculous to continue to charge that amount. People would prefer to have options. Other companies have managed to make new content free for download on some of their games. So I know it doesn't cost a whole lot to add in new content unless you're waiting for a while and are releasing a lot at one time.

Nothing you've said could be further to the truth. What you've said is completely misinformed and wrong. Sorry. Tripple A title MMO's make a lot of money and have a lot of subscribers (World of Warcraft has over ten million subscribers, and it has a monthly fee of $15USD; not to mention every developer and their mum want to make one because of how much money they make). A lot of people have the money to play monthly in an MMO, a lot of people spend a lot more than the initial monthly fee too (whether it's buying in-game currency or items), a lot of people have the money! Please don't use your own personal experience or the economy's "crisis" as an excuse, it's full of crap to be honest.

Companies that make updated content for free, do not make it for MMO's. MMO's are a completely different ballpark, and not only does the money go into the in-game content, it also goes into running, upgrading and maintaining the servers (you should see the server farms these tripple A title games use!), customer support and troubleshooting, and to the development teams (notice I am mentioning multiple teams). Offline or multiplayer games are completely different. So no, you do not know what it takes to keep an MMO updated. A lot of free MMO's out there rely on things like people using real life money to buy in-game items through their stores, and they are not fun games at all.

So basically, all you've shown is that you personally are butt-hurt about monthly fees and actually don't understand the full concept of an MMO and have just supplied false accusations on the genre and the companies that make them. Please, at least do some research before you make statements like that.

Why are you trying to make me look like I don't know anything? There is few in this world who loves video games more than I do. I might not have lived to see my current age because of it. Economic states are indeed a prime factor in these terms as if a man can barely be able to feed and cloth himself, he could not afford to purchase a game and continue paying for it on a monthly basis so he would probably consider something that would not require those extra fees. In time the charges can go over a $100 and if there's one person in this country like that there are millions of others. I know well how many subscribers are on World of Warcraft, but all of that isn't just from a couple of countries, but multiple. WoW is making plenty of money from all those subscribers along with some the additional prices they charge for a certain extra feature, so Blizzard is making plenty of profit from that, so it wouldn't really hurt them if they lowered the charge a little bit and it would probably attract even more customers. MMO games can survive with a lower charge and can achieve to become successful by their marketing and overall advertising.

Here's the thing, Blizzard doesn't make you play. We all choose to play, we all choose to hand over our debit and credit cards to buy months and months of gameplay.
Is that Blizzards fault? Nope, that's our own. If we want to play a free game, there are -PLENTY- of them to be played, but no, we want to play a game that is worth our money and our time, so we choose to play WoW.

It's like buying a Dell computer then looking at profit that Dell makes, no one's going to go "Omg I just paid 2000$ for this computer FOR MY OWN ENTERTAINMENT and Dell makes over blah blah blah a month! I'm going to stop paying my bill!"
Everyone knows we're over charged for electricity but we pay the bill anyways, why? Because we like to have electricity, no matter what the cost (as long as it's affordable) we'll pay for it.

Same goes for WoW, 15$ isn't the much, and the extra features.. well I've played for 2 and a half years and never used them. If you don't have the money to play WoW then you probably don't have the time too, because you're going to need to be working.

A Dvd at wal-mart can cost just as much or more than a month of WoW.
A regular Video game for PS3, XBOX, Wii, costs 2.6 times the cost of a month of WoW.
Eating out at McDonalds (meal) for 3 days within a month costs more than WoW.
Your internet connection alone can cost atleast 3 or 4 times as much as a month of WoW.
Going to see movies at a movie theater can almost be 2 times as much as a month of WoW.

Most gamers like the above, and pay for the above. Even at the bare minimum, if you have a job and are willing to sacrifice buying a movie, eating out at a fast food place, buying a video game, you can afford WoW. I know I've not bought something just to play a month of WoW before, did it bother me? Not in the least, Instead of seeing a movie, I got to play a month of WoW.

Just because the company makes a crap load of money doesn't mean it should become "more affordable" for it's customers, it means they're doing something right and are successful. It's affordable now, and I'm very happy for putting in 500$ into WoW over the years, they've shown me they're worth it.

With the whole economy thing, if a man is struggling that bad, playing on a game, hell a computer that costs money just to get on via internet, should be the FARTHEST thing from his mind.