| Man another company out of touch... Well...if there is a problem gotta throw gobs of cash at it...right? So, let's see here...all the games you purchase for the PC are free online gaming...and they are gonna charge. So, people who are hosting their own servers and are paying for their own bandwidth are now going to pay for this privilege, when PC's do this for free?
Sorry M$ I beg to differ on this one.
If you are going to make a persistent world and make people gain items and rank and other interesting things...this will work. It is a proven business model that EQ, AC, AO, DAOC, UO have all proven to be profitable. You are telling me that people are going to pay this monthly fee to fight Tekken?
Don't think so...time to go back to the drawing board...or instead of re-inventing the wheel...examine the online market of the PC world.
Duhh...and how much do these guys making these decisions make? |
| You have to keep some things in mind. When you pay for x-box live, you are paying one payment to be able to play any x-box online. Yes, you will be playing a fee to play games like Tekken. But then again, you are paying to play other RPG's that will be coming out such as Phantasy Star Online. With that in mind, lets touch up on something else that you have brought up. You brought up games like Everquest, Dark Ages of Camelot, Ultimate Online, and Anarchy Online. Yes, they have became successful. But, keep in mind, you have to pay $10 a month, or whatever they charge to play those games. If you want to play all 5 of those games that you brought up, you would be paying $50 a month. Now, lets say you could play all of these games on the x-box network. You could play everyone of these games online, and still be paying $10 a month.
Now, with that in mind. How is this such a bad idea? I think I would rather pay $10 a month to play my games online, than $50.
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| You can't really compare Xbox to PC online gaming. Despite Xbox imitating an outdated laptop, it's not. Think of the "business model" for their OS... PAY to upgrade, and they make it so you HAVE TO. Lets say MS actually got these really good titles to come out on console, do you honestly think they wouldn't find a way to make you pay extra? Remember the only reason you can use IE for free is because Netscape wasn't charging. I have no doubt Xbox will succeed, but it won't be from giving a good service, it will be from charging so you can avoid a "bad" one. |
