Multi-player "pay per play"

[TCO]

Anybody think we will get some sort of dedicated server with subscription based MP on it?

I raised this a while ago and nobody listened to me (in the old Civ3 fora). Maybe with all we've seen, it's a little easier to believe this might happen?

[Alexander's Horse]

If "we" do, noone will play it.

[TCO]

Are there any other MP based games with subscription? Perhaps making good money? Just curious. I'm not a gamer. But I figure that companies would try to Hoover out more money from player's pockets by doing this...

[notyoueither]

I guess the likely suspects have figured out that mods aren't paying too much attention to the newer forums yet

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by GP
I'm not a gamer.

WTF ARE YOU DOING HERE THEN

[TCO]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
If "we" do, noone will play it.

Maybe we is "me"? What about others? looking at it dispassionaately. And regardless, do you think they might try it?

[TCO]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse




WTF ARE YOU DOING HERE THEN

guess...

Well...I've OCCed back in the day...

[Adagio]

I they do try to make more money that way, then I believe I dont buy the XP

[TCO]

Everybody called me crazy when I trolled out that Firaxis wouldn't have MP in Civ3, and that happened...

Wrt MOO3, I said the game looked to have project management issues (several months ago). Now we have the Prject manager fired and a huge shift in game design plan.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by GP
Everybody called me crazy when I trolled out that Firaxis wouldn't have MP in Civ3, and that happened...

Not me...Why should they change the standards of the Civ series, they didn't have MP in Civ(1) or Civ2, so why should they have it in Civ3

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by GP


guess...

Oh - postcount

[Inverse Icarus]

Re: Multi-player "pay per play"

Originally posted by GP
Anybody think we will get some sort of dedicated server with subscription based MP on it?

I raised this a while ago and nobody listened to me (in the old Civ3 fora). Maybe with all we've seen, it's a little easier to believe this might happen?

i'd see a bnetd-esque project sprung up withing a week.

[zulu9812]

Better not be pay-per-play. If it is, I ain't paying or playing. The multi-player had better not be internet-only, LAN games with friends is what i'd be looking for.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by GP
Are there any other MP based games with subscription?

Haven't you heard of Everquest? Insanely popular, insanely addictive and in a few cases deadly. Plus i've heard that the "country" of EQ's per capita income is in the top hundred in the world. Ebay sales of weapons and characters.

Originally posted by GP
I'm not a gamer.

duly noted.

[TCO]

I may not be a gamer...but I can see how pay per play would pay...

I pay 25 a month for AOL and spend 50% of on-line time on poly. Figure how much that would add up to if Poly captured it.

If this thing comes out to be a subscription service, I will run around saying "I told you so".

And will come to an even more cynical view of the MP excision melodrama. (No problem with the Firaxis business decision...only with the lack of honesty in discussion.)