PSO Ep I & II Monthly Prices

[gekko]

Originally posted by Dyne
Well, I added it up. For Canadians, for one year, including all costs*, it's well over $300 to play, EXCLUDING taxes of 14.5% in BC**. That's ridiculous. I think I'm migrating over to Xbox Live... slowly... For that exact price, you could buy an Xbox and a game.

*Game+Modem+Peripheral+12 months of fees
**With tax it would close in on $400. Cripey.
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PSO is one of only a few games worth paying a monthly fee for. Migrate to Xbox, it's a decent system. I'm just wondering how you'll feel in a year when you end up paying $10+ a month for Xbox live, plus $50 for the game, plus the monthly fee for the subscription game, plus the extra fee to download additional content.

I just want to point out that this is only the beginning. Developers are going into online play with the hopes to profit, and Xbox Live seems to be setup nicely for them to profit. In addition to allowing developers to have their own subscription fees on top of the Xbox Live fee (PSO will likely be the first to charge), they also make it really easy to purchase new content to download. Which, as you can assume, will be fun at first, but soon you'll see developers leaving a lot of the best cars, weapons, levels, etc. out of the game, and put it up for download. Just wait, you'll see $20+ map packs in the future.

If you get into PSO, the game is well worth $9 a month. But if you don't, it's a waste. But believe me, if you become addicted to PSO, it'll be money well spent. But mark my words, it'll only get worse.

[Dyne]

Originally posted by gekko
PSO is one of only a few games worth paying a monthly fee for. Migrate to Xbox, it's a decent system. I'm just wondering how you'll feel in a year when you end up paying $10+ a month for Xbox live, plus $50 for the game, plus the monthly fee for the subscription game, plus the extra fee to download additional content.

Who's to assume that I'll stay for more than a year? Right now, it seems highly uncomfortable compared to M$'s plan--plus, only one game to boot. It's wrong at this point in time.

[Mediocre]

Ive been playing for a while now, the game costs me about 800‰~ a month to play online.

Why not just play the game offline if you:

A: Don't want to pay the 9 bucks.

B: Can't afford it.

[TheGame]

Because the game offline SUCKS (unless you have 3 guys who want to play with you)

I'd rather them charge $100 to buy the game+1 year free access...

I just ain't got credit card room for this game.