World Of Warcraft - Stress test beta.

Null · 09-01-2004, 02:44 PM

sad thing really. so over priced its amazing.
All they'd need is a few $ from everyone, i'd say like 5 a month and that would be well more then enough for them to maintain the servers and keep a profit. They really limit thier userbase by making it so costly. They're making out like bandits when they have a price of 10 or more per person per month.

Jonbo298 · 09-01-2004, 04:55 PM

You try to maintain those huge servers with a nearly constant uptime for only a few dollars from your customers. Engineers, maintenance, salary, etc..For my $15 a month to Cryptic for City of Heroes, I get a big update every 2-3 months (every 2 so far), uptime is pretty good (I have yet ot see the servers crash, except for the Test server which has updates before they go live and server can get unstable but thats what testing is for before it hits the live servers). Plus, the devs are awesome in CoH because they actually read the forums and listen to its customers and make changes accordingly.

So my $15 a month is well deserved for a great game. And future games will be $15 a month also because of the massive servers to maintain and whatnot. They aren't cheap Null.

Null · 09-01-2004, 05:06 PM

im not sayin they're cheap. but all the people in the world that buy and play these games, $15 each from them every month? you do the math, We'll just say they arent ever going to have a money problem for a long long time.

What im saying is, they could do it at a much cheaper price and still make a nice profit after spending the costs on the servers.

BTW, Stress testing beta hasnt even started yet? i installed the game this afternoon, only to find i have to wait untill it begins to sign a name up. =/ i wanted to play now damnit!

Canyarion · 09-02-2004, 06:11 PM

Ah, hasn't started yet.... ok

I want to know when our EU Bèta starts!

And yes I've done the math.... I thought Blizzard was going to get filty rich.... but I guess I was a bit wrong... not THAT many ppl are gonna play it...

Jonbo298 · 09-02-2004, 06:32 PM

It just started today. I played for a few minutes, just could not get into it and went back to City of Heroes

And I know that it takes time to get into but I just can't see myself playing WoW

Null · 09-02-2004, 06:43 PM

im runnin around with no clue what to do.

how do i get money? hehe

Canyarion · 09-03-2004, 10:42 AM

Eeeehm are there any monsters around? Kill them!

Team up with ppl perhaps?

Oh Jonbo.......