Do i have to keep paying

Do I have to pay to play after I've purchased the game?

The monthly subscription is $14.99 USD. I don't know what it converts to in Euros.

If you're playing on a free trial, there should be an option to upgrade to a full version on the character select screen. If you choose to upgrade, it'll take you to the NCStore website where you can digitally purchase one of several versions of the game (Going Rogue is the most recent and complete version). Once purchased, you should be given the option of applying the serial code for the game to your PlayNC master account; having never upgraded from a trial version myself, I'm assuming that you had to make one as part of the trial process. Once the code is applied, you should be able to play the game as normal. Just be sure that you're purchasing the proper game client for the servers you want to play on, either North American or European.

If you've already purchased the full game and are playing, you should have a 30-day free period. Still, you need to long into your plaync master account and set up a subscription option to continue playing after that period is up. Major credit cards and Paypal are direct payment options, and you can also purchase NCSoft 30-day time cards and apply the serial codes found on them. Assuming that they're available in your area.

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The sub fee adds up to about 50 cents a day - it's the cheapest entertainment around

Plus sometimes retailers on and offline have specials where you can pick up the game cheaper...Got my Going Rogue edition for $10 on Steam during a sale. (Had CoH/CoV already but for that price it was too good to pass up...lol)
And as others have posted, for the monthly price it's really cheap compared to a lot of other stuff.

There are five things that I think of when justifying the monthly cost of an MMORPG to someone.

1) As others have pointed out, most subscribers feel that compared to other things you could spend $15 a month on, an MMORPG is actually a really good value. For the price of one movie (if you throw in a drink or popcorn), you get hours and hours of entertainment. Some people play this game a couple of hours every night, more on weekends. A movie will net you two hours or so of entertainment, period.

2) If you're like me, paying $15 a month will actually supplant other entertainment expenses. I used to pay around $120 per month on DirecTV for the ultra premium package, movie channels and all. Now, I pay around $60 for a lower-tier cable package, and I would probably pay even less if I didn't like Mythbusters, Cash Cab, and watching the Falcons games so much.

3) I think of the game less as just a game and more as a hobby. Compared to other hobbies, $15 a month is actually pretty durn cheap. If you're into golf, for example, you'll be laughed at if you try to play for $15 per month. I have a friend who spends at least $100 per month or more on his woodworking hobby. Of course, having said that, I kind of carry the game to a hobbyist extreme, administrating the Titan Network/Paragon Wiki sites. Still, you get my point...

4) Unlike other games that you go out and buy once and you're done, the developers release a lot of free content every few months. Halo 2 is pretty much identical as the day I bought it. But if you could see all of the differences between CoH Day One and CoH Now, you'd know that it's well worth it. Have I spent a lot of money over the years on subscription fees? Yes, but the way I see it, it's like I've bought City of Heroes plus 20 sequels.

5) You'll frequently see references (and I've made them myself) to $15 per month, and when you first start out, I'd encourage you to pay month-by-month to make sure you like the game. If you do and you're willing to invest longer-term into it, you can pay by the year instead and get a much better deal; I think that works out to around $12 per month. Plus, the past couple of years around the end-of-year holidays, they've offered a limited-time offer of a couple of extra months if you buy a year's worth of time, which actually works out, if I'm not mistaken, to around $11 per month.

So yes, there is a monthly subscription fee associated with the game, and that does turn off some people. Still, I think that most people here would agree that it is well worth the money. I can't guarantee you that it will be in your case because I don't know you. If you've already bought the game, play the hell out of it during your free month, enough to make an informed decision about whether that monthly fee is worth it to you.

Even if it's not, you might want to check the main web site now and then. Every once in a while, they have a "free weekend" promotion where anyone who has purchased the game can play for free, whether their account is expired or not. It's a good way to keep up with game updates, and who knows? Maybe if it's borderline now, at some point in the future, a new update will come along that pushes it over to "I really like this!" territory that will be worth the monthly fee.

Regardless of what you decide, though, welcome to the game for at least a month, and good luck! I think you'll find the people here really nice and the action and story very compelling. I've paid $60 or more for games without subscription fees that I played for less than a month, so even if you decide not to subscribe, I think you'll get your money's worth in fun!

Am I the only one who keeps reading the title of this thread as "Do I have to keep playing?"