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SOE is rising their prices to $25.00 a month. For what, because we got to respec? There has not been anything great added to the game to show such an increase. Wow, I stunned about this, they don't have many people as it is and they rise the price? Makes no sense....

its true the station access is being increased by 3 dollars a month.

but it made me think, SWG, and most of the other titles SOE runs, cost 15 dollars a month subs, individually that is.

now, if you look at other MMO's out there, how does the price compare ?
as you look around there is one thing that stands out head and shoulders above all the rest, SOE actually charge a lot more for their games than anyone else does, by 50 percent!
most other MMO's have a monthly charge of 10 dollars.

how has SOE managed to get away with charging premium rates for substandard products, in effect, their selling you a damaged product, in retail terms that usually means you pay less, not half as much again.

is SWG worth the extra 5 dollars a month ?

personally i'd much prefer them to charge 5 dollars a month for SWG, or allow freeplay, simply because the game is in an unfinished state, it strikes me as immoral and slightly usurius to charge people as much as they do.

OMFG 3 DOLLARS MORE????

i dought there not making enough money, even if they only had 50k for swg, thats like, $750,000 a month

and itll still be cheaper than playing even 2 games

uh huh, ya, or thed just close it then the people who want to play couldnt, grow the **** up

wows the same price if not a bit more than swg, coh/cov is 15usd as well, ff11, if im not mistaken is 13.
im not sure about eqs population, but whenever i play the trial for eq2, all teh servers are usualy medium, cause they just had a server merge not to long ago

couldnt have said it better myself

hmm, looks like i overlooked that some of the charges were in pounds not dollars, ddo is £10.50, and wow is £8.99

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there isnt much difference in the prices, i do think though that SWG's monthly sub should reflect its unfinished status. there is also the issue of why it is taking them so long to introduce the various publishes, either they dont have near as many dev's as they need to do the work, contrary to their own stated numbers, and then there is the fact that the publishes are still being released in various states of stability.
several servers were particularly badly hit by pub28, and there are yet again, more reported bugs. perhaps that isnt too surprising but even so, by now we should be seeing less bugs not more of them.
i've been playing in several games, and swg is really unique, unfortunately, its uniqueness is in all the bad things, like bugs, gameplay issues, and lack of content.

effectivly telling people to quit if they cared and saying **** soe shows me you need to grow up

No I'm expressing my truthful opinion that SOE is a twisted company with no interest in its players. I'm entitled to my opinion, so grow up yourself.

Well regardless I'm anti-SOE. They've shown their true colors to me. They clearly don't care about their customers, therefore I recommend no one give them their money.

That's all.

Edited, Thu May 4 21:00:13 2006 by EJJR