this game should lower its monthly fee to $9.99
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Posted on: 2009-05-21 24:41 in Suggestions and Ideas
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I admit I have a bit of a taco bell addiction.
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Are there no Del Taco's in your area?
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Nope, all we have aree Taco Bell or Taco Gringo. We did have a tiny little taco place open up on main street not to long ago. My wife wants to try it but I'm a bit scared by it.
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One place I wish would move east... Baja Fresh. They were good, and filling. One of the few things I miss from living on the west coast.
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You've been to Baja Fresh? You can answer a question that has bugged me for years.
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...I like tacos...
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Tacos! 
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another game i play phantasy star universe which is $9.99/month. it came out in october 2006. and ppl complain about the fee there all the time. and sometimes i subscribe to wow. also xbox live $50/yr these fees add up. 9.99 for psu, 14.99 for wow, 14.99 for coh. thats 50+ a month on games. this adds up.
along with about 200 to 300 on groceries/alcohol/restaurants per month, 279 for rent each month. 40/mo to my brother for doing the dishes, and cleaning the apartment. 20 for adult entertainment. 50 for car insurance. 25 for renters insurance. 10 for life insurance. 30+ for gas. i'm gonna have to pay for dental insurance soon. also money for furniture, new bed, bedding stuff, electronics, soon a new $1200 computer. also other games i buy such as sf4, fightpad controller, defense grid, castle crashers, ssf2thdr and other games, video rentals. and medical expenses i just paid 735 for a hospitol bill, credit report 25. gambling, movie theateres, postal stamps, luckily no credit cards currently. and i get about $900/month from disability, and i live in north county san diego, ca. i'm not working right now. soon i'll go back to work after i have a cataract in my eye removed. then i go back to pizza delivery for round table while getting disability.
i'm surprised so many ppl were against this. you must be rich or are you brats that live off your parents. how easily do you give away your money. it seems like you should want to save money not give it away. what are you gonna do when champions comes out? pay another 14.99 or let your characters die? i'll probably subscribe to this on, and off like i do wow. and switch to champions maybe when it comes out. also i was only trying this game out to see wheter i like it or if it was worth it, not promising to be a lifetime subscriber.
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Maybe we all don't play and pay subscriptions for 10 games at once? Maybe we just chose to play this one and that's it? Maybe we don't play console games? Maybe we don't have a PSP, PS3, XBox, etc.? Maybe we won't be buying and subscribing to every single new game that comes out the moment they come out? Could that be a possibility?
Yeah, we pay bills too, pal. The difference between us and you is we choose to play one or two games so that the subscription rates are within our budget. We don't have to have subscriptions to every single thing that is put on the shelf.
Sometimes you've got to make choices. This game has been out for 5 years and the subscription rate is within reason. If you think it's too high, you don't have to pay it. But if they just suddenly lowered it globally that would create a huge drop in the income for the company which would cause Paragon Studios to reduce staff instead of increasing it which would cause increased time between issues and fewer booster packs, expansions, etc., etc..
I'm good with the subscription rate as it is and I'm nowhere near rich. Thank you. And as for what I'm going to do when Champions comes out, likely I won't even bother with it. It just doesn't seem to be that great, IMO. I'll stick to the first Super Hero MMO and be happy.
Im a baller with money so i dont give a fu** what the fee is. Like the asians say, "u dont like u dont buy"
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They have been around so long they should be paying US to eat.
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Jay and I were actually paid by Taco Bell to eat one day. They were doing some marketing research on a new product and gave us some "taco bell bucks" for sampling it and filling out a little form.
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Right, but they don't pay you to eat there everyday, do they? 
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this game should lower its monthly fee to $9.99 instead of 14.99 imo. its getting old. its 5yrs old now. any game this old should not be going for 14.99/month still. if the rate wasn't so high i would keep my subscription going for a longer time. since its so high i will only subscribe for one more month before quiting.
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Game is only slightly older than WoW and EQ2. Both of those are still up at $14.99. Sorry, but operating costs don't go down as a game gets older. Be grateful the subscription rate isn't going *UP*.
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Oh please... Limit yourself to 1 hot n ready pizza a month instead of 4 and you should be able to afford this. Really 14.99 isnt that much.
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They have been around so long they should be paying US to eat.
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Jay and I were actually paid by Taco Bell to eat one day. They were doing some marketing research on a new product and gave us some "taco bell bucks" for sampling it and filling out a little form.
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A friend of mine was once desperate for work so she became a drive-up shopper for Taco Bell. She had to order tons of stuff, time them, then make sure her order was correct. Ahhh.... that was a nice couple months of free food. Cinnamon Crisps...drool....
I could see during special event and holidays the devs having some sort of contest , costume contest, pvp, etc where a player could receive a free month or 2 and during anniversary event they could have something really big set up for a chance of a lifetime account at a reduced rate or even free.
It might even get people to pvp if they could have a chance at some of those rewards.
superduper exra rare recipee drop that reduces your monthly sub to 9.99 pvp only lol
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Going rogue. Gotta' pay...probably around the same price as this game goes for retail. Remember the days when the devs said there would -NEVER- be a paid for expansion? Gone like the pvp community. As for fresh and exciting...well more like a decent pass time, sure there's always going to be a few die hards that just can't get enough. Some of us need more than a farm tool that gets you banned or going back in time to play missions you've already played.
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You don't remember those times either... at least not correctly... because it never happened.
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I admit I have a bit of a taco bell addiction.
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Are there no Del Taco's in your area?
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Nope, all we have aree Taco Bell or Taco Gringo. We did have a tiny little taco place open up on main street not to long ago. My wife wants to try it but I'm a bit scared by it.
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One place I wish would move east... Baja Fresh. They were good, and filling. One of the few things I miss from living on the west coast.
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They are east. At least in the DC/MD/VA area.
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Going rogue. Gotta' pay...probably around the same price as this game goes for retail. Remember the days when the devs said there would -NEVER- be a paid for expansion? Gone like the pvp community. As for fresh and exciting...well more like a decent pass time, sure there's always going to be a few die hards that just can't get enough. Some of us need more than a farm tool that gets you banned or going back in time to play missions you've already played.
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You don't remember those times either... at least not correctly... because it never happened.
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At one point the Devs had a planned expansion but scrubbed it and turned it into Issues 9-12 instead, given for free (and presumably with some bells and whistles trimmed). Probably he is confusing this event with some kind of promise never to have expansions - which did not happen. They said they weren't going to release that expansion and gave it to us as four free issues instead. That's all.
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... Walmart's "improvements" would have to come at a huge change to their entire management and hiring/promotion strategy. There's one across the street from me. I have set foot in it 3 times, and none of those times did they have what I wanted at a better price than the target up the street. And no, none of those times did I *buy* anything there. It makes me feel dirty.
Now, to be fair, when I went on vacation several years ago to Baton Rouge, the walmart there was *very* nice, largely I think because they weren't trying to undercut every other store in the area (... very likely because they'd already all gone out of business).
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The only time I will shop at a Walmart is if there are no other reasonable (time/distance) options. That collection of [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS], sleazy, [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS], manipulative, [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS], low-life [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS] can go [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS] themselves and the [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS] corrupt politicians that allow them to get away with their illegal [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS].
I'm...
not a fan...
Can you tell?
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I just don't trust their [Champions] dev team, I dislike that the only things we *ever* hear about it is "Well, CoX doesn't have ____, which we do, so we're better, neener-neener!".
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This is very much how I feel about the majority of their interviews. Especially when Jack speaks. It got so bad a while back, that I was seriously contemplating putting up a "Jack please stop talking. You're making me not want to buy your game more and more every time you open your mouth" post over there.
Right now, I have more worries than positive expectations. That may change as/if/when I get more exposure to the actual game itself.
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I admit I have a bit of a taco bell addiction.
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Are there no Del Taco's in your area?
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Nope, all we have aree Taco Bell or Taco Gringo. We did have a tiny little taco place open up on main street not to long ago. My wife wants to try it but I'm a bit scared by it.
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One place I wish would move east... Baja Fresh. They were good, and filling. One of the few things I miss from living on the west coast.
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You've been to Baja Fresh? You can answer a question that has bugged me for years.
A little back story, I worked at a comapny that made the wraps that your food is wrapped in at fast places. Over the 11 years I worked there I saw sheets for places I have never heard of, most were cool, some were stupid looking. One that always bugged me was the Baja Fresh sheet. The smallest we ever ran before Baja fresh was the 10 inch by 12 inch wraps for Wendy's. Baja though, was only 6x6. We could never figure out what the hell they used a 6x6 wrap for.
So, if you know, what do they wrap in a 6x6 piece of wax paper?
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I seem to recall them selling small orders of chips like french fries. I can't remember for sure anymore because all of them in my part of the country went bankrupt and closed.
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I admit I have a bit of a taco bell addiction.
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Are there no Del Taco's in your area?
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Nope, all we have aree Taco Bell or Taco Gringo. We did have a tiny little taco place open up on main street not to long ago. My wife wants to try it but I'm a bit scared by it.
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One place I wish would move east... Baja Fresh. They were good, and filling. One of the few things I miss from living on the west coast.
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They are east. At least in the DC/MD/VA area.
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That must be fairly recent - of course, it's been a few years. Only ones I ever saw listed were west coast.
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... .closest to me is the Tampa airport. >.<
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Did tacobell supply the toilet paper afterwords? 
jeeze. i have never started a topic that got over 4000 hits before. i feel so loved. i hope you don't mind if i don't read all of them. i will assume you all just love me that much. i think i'm gonna budget cut this game next month. it was fun though. i'm just that cheap. soon i will try out age of conan, and warhammer after i get my new computer that i'm buying with a credit card next month. pass the pipe. share the wealth, and the love. bye. bye.
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this game should lower its monthly fee to $9.99 instead of 14.99 imo. its getting old. its 5yrs old now. any game this old should not be going for 14.99/month still. if the rate wasn't so high i would keep my subscription going for a longer time. since its so high i will only subscribe for one more month before quiting.
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better pick up a extra paper route then Billy
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i think i'm gonna budget cut this game next month. it was fun though. i'm just that cheap. soon i will try out age of conan, and warhammer after i get my new computer that i'm buying with a credit card next month. pass the pipe. share the wealth, and the love. bye. bye.
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I don't think that word means what you think it means. You are implying that you are . . .
cheap - stingy or miserly
Yet you have told us that you are on a limited budget of $900 for disability and you are unemployed. but each month you spend $504.15 on frivolous items things like Xbox, PSU, WoW, alcohol, restaurants, adult entertainment, maid service, sf4, fightpad controller, defense grid, castle crashers, ssf2thdr, gambling, and movie theatres.
You spend more money than you bring in. If you add up the numbers you yourself gave us for you necessities (groceries, rent, car insurance, renters insurance, life insurance, and gas) you get a total of $694.
Do the math.
$694 - necessities
$504.15 - Frivolous expenses
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$1198.15
You also tell us you just spent $735 on a hospital bill, you intend to get a credit card and spend another $1200. on a new computer, and you need cataract surgery, and dental insurance.
That isn't cheap. The words you are looking for are . . .
squanderer - A reckless extravagant consumer
Spendthrift - One who spends money recklessly or wastefully
Somehow I doubt he'll take that information Forbin.
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this game should lower its monthly fee to $9.99 instead of 14.99 imo. its getting old. its 5yrs old now. any game this old should not be going for 14.99/month still. if the rate wasn't so high i would keep my subscription going for a longer time. since its so high i will only subscribe for one more month before quiting.
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Go ask the WoW community how much they pay for their 5+ year old game. While your at it, ask them how many FREE expansions they've gotten since launch.
Seriously.
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another game i play phantasy star universe which is $9.99/month. it came out in october 2006. and ppl complain about the fee there all the time. and sometimes i subscribe to wow. also xbox live $50/yr these fees add up. 9.99 for psu, 14.99 for wow, 14.99 for coh. thats 50+ a month on games. this adds up.
along with about 200 to 300 on groceries/alcohol/restaurants per month, 279 for rent each month. 40/mo to my brother for doing the dishes, and cleaning the apartment. 20 for adult entertainment. 50 for car insurance. 25 for renters insurance. 10 for life insurance. 30+ for gas. i'm gonna have to pay for dental insurance soon. also money for furniture, new bed, bedding stuff, electronics, soon a new $1200 computer. also other games i buy such as sf4, fightpad controller, defense grid, castle crashers, ssf2thdr and other games, video rentals. and medical expenses i just paid 735 for a hospitol bill, credit report 25. gambling, movie theateres, postal stamps, luckily no credit cards currently. and i get about $900/month from disability, and i live in north county san diego, ca. i'm not working right now. soon i'll go back to work after i have a cataract in my eye removed. then i go back to pizza delivery for round table while getting disability.
i'm surprised so many ppl were against this. you must be rich or are you brats that live off your parents. how easily do you give away your money. it seems like you should want to save money not give it away. what are you gonna do when champions comes out? pay another 14.99 or let your characters die? i'll probably subscribe to this on, and off like i do wow. and switch to champions maybe when it comes out. also i was only trying this game out to see wheter i like it or if it was worth it, not promising to be a lifetime subscriber.
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you're complaining about the $15 here, but yet you spend:
$10 - PSU
$15 - WoW
$ 4 - XBox
$20 - porn
$2-300 for groceries/restaurants/alcohol (Say $100 of that for restaurants/alcohol)
undisclosed amount for gambling/theatres (for argument's sake, let's say $100)
You spend nearly $250/month on non-essential entertainment. You are paying $25 less for your entertainment than your rent. More than a quarter of your income (of $900) is going to entertainment.
I am no financial expert, but it's clear to me that you cannot afford
- alcohol
- excess gaming and equipment
- a $1200 computer
- electronics
- video rentals
And you balk at our paying $15/month for a game?
Thank you, Champion.
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Somehow I doubt he'll take that information Forbin.
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I know. It's more for the latecomers than the OP. If they don't read the whole thread they might reasd the last few posts.
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I admit I have a bit of a taco bell addiction.
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Are there no Del Taco's in your area?
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Nope, all we have aree Taco Bell or Taco Gringo. We did have a tiny little taco place open up on main street not to long ago. My wife wants to try it but I'm a bit scared by it.
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One place I wish would move east... Baja Fresh. They were good, and filling. One of the few things I miss from living on the west coast.
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You've been to Baja Fresh? You can answer a question that has bugged me for years.
A little back story, I worked at a comapny that made the wraps that your food is wrapped in at fast places. Over the 11 years I worked there I saw sheets for places I have never heard of, most were cool, some were stupid looking. One that always bugged me was the Baja Fresh sheet. The smallest we ever ran before Baja fresh was the 10 inch by 12 inch wraps for Wendy's. Baja though, was only 6x6. We could never figure out what the hell they used a 6x6 wrap for.
So, if you know, what do they wrap in a 6x6 piece of wax paper?
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It's been ... roughly 3 1/2 years since I've eaten at one, unfortunately. I'm *reasonably* sure that sounds like a container for their chips or liner for them or some such.
Edit : Might be the side in this image, too.
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Ahhh yes. I never really thought to look it up online. All I knew was that it was a pain in the a** because our machines were not set up to run sheets that small, so we had to modify them for that order and then put everything back for the next one. On the other hand production was counted by thousands of sheets ran, so those little sheets gave the operator HUGE production numbers for the day. Most printing companies count by the foot.