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3/18/2014 8:48:31 PM
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Would this make you more willing to play an MMO?

One of the reasons I hear a lot of people not want to pay a subscription for one is because you get "locked" into the game once you begin playing. You're on the clock, and if you aren't playing it, you're wasting money that you used to play it. If there was an account option were you could suspend your subscription until you had time to play it, and this is a literal suspension too, as soon as you give the confirmation to suspend, your account is frozen and you can pick up playing it again whenever you want right from where you left off with your remaining time still available. Would something like this instantly make you more willing to pay for a game to play? For myself, I'd love it if I could be playing a game like that then suspend it to play something else for awhile, with no worry of my subscription time running out on me while I do something else, that feeling of being locked into something would be gone and you wouldn't feel like you'd need to be glued to that one game until your Sub ends. Does this seem too impractical from a business standpoint? Or if this happened do you think it could monumentally make a difference in a game?

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  • Edited by EvilTaffyapple: 3/21/2014 9:18:27 AM
    The problem is that most people who are put off from playing a sub-based MMO haven't played the free-to-play ones to see what the alternatives are. A subscription to a game serves as an effective barrier for players you may not necessarily want in a game - players with bad ping are less inclined to pay for a sub if they lag. Similarly morons who just want to troll and dick about in game are less likely to pay a sub to do so. Free to play MMOs also have to make money somehow to keep servers up, so they tend to have cash shops. While these aren't inherently bad, most offer more than just cosmetic items, and boil down to paying to get better items than other players have. Or paying for locked content. For all of you not willing to pay a sub - go play a free to play MMO and see how bad they are.

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