What would make you pay an extra 3 pounds a month?
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craggy,
Posted on: 2008-08-13 14:55 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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I would say absolutely and without exception - Nothing would make me pay more to subscribe to City of Heroes/Villains.
Its good value, especially as you now have access to both games but there is little room for manoevering regarding fixing a price structure among even the latest and shiniest MMOs yet alone a four year old one.
As has been mentioned before, you have every right to expect the much sought after wish-list features to be covered under your current subscription, don't think you have to pay more to get more especially with competition on the horizon.
Pretty much agree with you there Mother, I hold multiple accounts in CoH, and sure I could just drop one if the price went up, but I could switch over to another MMO instead. Or I'd take a break waiting for the Bioware MMO in development
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No, nothing. The price structure is similar to that of other games. Good value, but similar. If it were to cost more, I doubt I could justify it to myself.
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Guaranteed one issue every quarter, each containing one new zone (with TF + 4 contact arcs at least), one zone revamp (whether complete like Faultline, or just spawns/missions like Hollows), one new powerset, at least a couple of new full costumes, and of course a commitment to new QoL features and ongoing development as we get now.
That's what it would take for at least a £3 a month hike - a £1 a month hike I wouldn't mind as long as they manage to deliver 3 issues in the next 12 months. Though admittedly if NC did put the price up now by £1-3 without any guarantees of extra content for our money I wouldn't be happy about it, but I probably wouldn't quit either. Tbh this is still a very cheap form of entertainment.
The credit crunch, probably.
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I think the one thing i could possibly think of that would make me pay extra would be to have Jay the sexy man as my personal slave, making every cossie piece i wanted on demand.
Didn't Sony try something like this?
some premium subscription which gave players on that better support than the rest... I'm pretty sure that flopped hard.
Raising the subscription by three pounds would probably make me pay three pounds more. Odds are acceptable to risk that I wouldn't even notice if they didn't tell me.
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Didn't Sony try something like this?
some premium subscription which gave players on that better support than the rest... I'm pretty sure that flopped hard.
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What you're referring to was the "Legends" service on EverQuest, which was a total joke. There was one Legends server, Stormhammer, that you had to pay $40 a month to play on - back then normal server subs for EQ cost around $13 a month and Station Access (which let you play all SOE's MMOs on a single sub) was around $20, iirc (and I don't think the Legends sub included Access, but I may be wrong).
On Stormhammer you would supposedly never have to wait for GMs to answer a petition (it would be immediate), there would be live dynamic events run every week by GMs, I think for a while you got patches and holiday events a few days earlier than the normal live servers, I think loot/cash drop rates were higher, and there was one zone exclusive to Legends (but apparently it was a bit rubbish).
Eventually most of those things fizzled out and Legends basically became $40 a month for average GM service. Funnily enough right after Legends launched the GM service on the live servers got noticeably worse and there were rumours that SOE had pulled about half the GMs off the 20+ live servers to work purely on Stormhammer - I think it was 1 GM assigned to every 4 live servers when I quit in 2003 and usually an hour after petitioning you'd get contacted by a Guide, i.e. an unpaid player volunteer who had no power to do anything but escalate your petition to a proper GM if it sounded like you had a problem they could help with, then a GM might contact you a few days later by email. My main character got stuck on a zoneline once at a raid and it took SOE two weeks after the petition to fix it.
But as I heard it Stormhammer was never a busy server and I think SOE shut it down a couple of years ago. So yeah, it flopped hard, and it deserved to - two-tier subscription plans are just wrong.
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No, nothing. The price structure is similar to that of other games. Good value, but similar. If it were to cost more, I doubt I could justify it to myself.
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I probably would pay that for a genuinaly spectacular game where you can see on the screen and in gameplay why its so expensive. But I dont think CoH or any other game I can think of can match my expectation of what that would be.
Don't get into a flap. It's only my opinion and I'm thick
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I would pay an extra £3 per month to have access to the other NCSoft games with subs.
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Woah. For another £3 a month, I'd like a lot of stuff off my wishlist implemented straight away and plenty more guaranteed for the following 12 months. There's been a heck of a lot done lately for no extra charge. (granted, I did buy the Wedding Pack, and have got my money's worth out of it with the fancy tux) In issue 12 alone we've got VEATs, a new zone and TF and the Hollows stuff, along with all the user interface/quality of life upgrades. Then I13 is supposed to be even bigger and better.
Paying extra would require a lot, especially since I'm going to try out the 2 new games from the competition when they come out, assuming there's some kind of free trials.
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Like Vox said. I'd pay up to about £20 for a group sub to all of NCSoft's games.
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Like Vox said. I'd pay up to about £20 for a group sub to all of NCSoft's games.
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Oh yea, i totally would too.
A different game. CoH as it stands isn't worth £12, and to get the game up to that sort of quality is more a new game than an upgrade.
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I think the one thing i could possibly think of that would make me pay extra would be to have Jay the sexy man as my personal slave, making every cossie piece i wanted on demand.
Didn't Sony try something like this?
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They rented out Jay you mean?
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For me, physics enabled clothing and hair would be a huge win and one I would be happy to part with extra cash for.
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I agree 
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Like Vox said. I'd pay up to about £20 for a group sub to all of NCSoft's games.
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Oh yea, i totally would too.
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ditto
Thanks for the replies all.
I do believe and agree that CoX is currently great value for money.
I suppose however that what I'm trying to get at is that the amount of money we pay is fine, but for the equivelent price of one drink in the pub a month we could potentially have so much more.
Stormhammer was an utter failure, but the dev and support team for CoX is a million times better than it was at SoE.
I think they could manage to do something special given a cash incentive
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Totally unrealistic but £3 should get us a licenced "VS" patch eg... CoH VS Marvel or something kick wolverines [censored] or something
Top Cow or someone indy is more likely. And yet still totally not going to happen.
I'd love a crossover into some of Avatar's books. "New contact: Doktor Sleepless" anyone?
@craggy see me on Union for TFs, SFs (please!) or just some good ol fashioned teaming.
The amount is irrelevant really, but what feature added to CoX would see you parting with some additional money per month?
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i.e. There's lots of things we would all *like* to see, but what would you actually pay extra for? ( paying the devs overtime in order to implement it
For me, physics enabled clothing and hair would be a huge win and one I would be happy to part with extra cash for.
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