Internet Games

[Jonbo298]

I've had City of Heroes since launch and I pay the $15 a month but I know that money is guaranteeing they do their best to keep their servers up and running. Glitches/hiccups occur here and there which is understandable as technology is not perfect.

But I feel charges should only really pertain to MMORPG's because they have HUGE, and I mean HUGE servers to maintain and insanely fast connections to maintain. They can't just let you use them free of charge every month otherwise MMORPG's would die out.

And with CoH, the devs promise a new content update every few months (preferably 2 months or so) to keep the game fresh and make sure people get what they pay for. The firs tone just came out recently and I'm already enjoying it with the $15 I pay them.

Games like UT or any FPS's are more maintained by servers people make. Companies can put up servers to use but they dont cost nearly as much to maintain as MMORPG servers do.

And games like Starcraft don't need insane connections and servers to run. They are older and don't send/receive data nearly as much as other games would

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and btw..if anyone picks up CoH, Put your char. on Pinnacle server (thats what I'm on)

[Crono]

For those of you who complain about online fees, let's just take a look at what a typical set up for an MMORPG looks like:

In FFXI there are 28 game play servers, 1 beta server, servers for tetra master, servers that manage in-game auctions, servers for public profiles, servers for ranking system, and several other servers handling different FFXI functions.

In total there are 1500 servers, all running Solaris 8. In addition to that there are 2 SunFire6800 iUltraSparcIII/8CPU memory unts, and a Sunstoredge (73GB triple mirror system) unit to handle the data base (running oracle 9), and 8 NFS.

FFXI is a huge game, VERY huge. I can't even explain how big the game is because you have to play it yourself (and no, watching your friend play while he levels in a party won't explain it either). If you think games like this will ever be free, I'm sorry to say, but you're an idiot. Don't buy them, don't complain about them. Like previously said, games like these are extremely expensive to operate. When you have over 1 million characters spread over 30 game play servers, and at any time those servers can crash, or they will need maintenance, you can be sure that SE will need that money to pay people to be there.

[Null]

as i said. i dont expect them to be free, However, the current monthly fee for them is over priced.

they need some money income to operate thoes servers for MMORPGs, but they're getting more than they need.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Null

as i said. i dont expect them to be free, However, the current monthly fee for them is over priced.

they need some money income to operate thoes servers for MMORPGs, but they're getting more than they need.

Well they do need profit. Heh. And if you were them you'd probably over charge people, if you could. Don't deny it.

But IMO FFXI has been worth the 12.95 US per month, I've played it more than any other game, and won't even touch any other game until Star Ocean 3 or Suikoden IV come out.

[Null]

lol. yes. but, you gotta wonder if they'd actually be making more by lowering the price. a lot more people would play. some might play more then 1.

making a profit is one thing. getting loaded with profit is another

[manasecret]

Yeah no kidding, they charge what they charge because they can.

But I don't understand why people pay so much to play these games. Ain't worth it to me.

[Swan]

Yeah I hate online fees. I understand them. I still hate them though.


I've heard Lineage 2 is a free MMORPG. I may be wrong but I'm just letting epople know so that they can figure out on their own if they want.