xmiyux

See i didn't know you got a price break for paying for a year of an MMO. What kind of break are we talking (using WOW as an example)?

bunkaroo

I checked my account and the longest plan is 6 months for 77.94. You save $2 per month at that rate, so over a year you could save $24 total. Not as significant as the year plan saving for Live.

JasonF

I could have sworn you had a Gold account on Live.

For me, it's not the monthly fee that turns me off to MMOs. It's the fact that I don't want to deal with 13-year-old mouthbreathers who think that calling someone "gay" is the height of wit and I don't want to compete with 17-year-old nerds who spend 20 hours a day farming for XP and treasure.

Supermallet

I do have a gold account on live. That account is much cheaper than any MMO that charges you, especially since I buy my time when the cards are on sale and stock up for three years. I got my last three year cards at $30 each. That means I'm paying 8 cents a day for Xbox Live, or $2.50 a month. Live works for every single game with an online component, not just a single game, and if I ever decide to stop using Live, all my games will still work in the single player modes. If one flat fee got me access to every MMO that came out, and I could play MMOs offline, I would reconsider.

Take WoW on the other hand. You pay up front for the game, then pay per month per character you create. Yes, not only are you continually paying for one game, not only are you forced to play online, but you have to pay per character. I don't see how you can even compare the two. One is a blanket access fee, the other is a strip mine of the gaming world.

And yes, I know that a game like WoW offers a lot of gameplay for your money, but I've sunk 250-300 hours into Oblivion, and I didn't have to pay monthly for it.

fumanstan

I don't know why you assumed that you pay per character, but that's not true at all. That's glaringly incorrect and misinformed.

As far as the time MMO's take, I don't think you need to devote a shit load of time to MMO's to have fun. You can do your own thing and enjoy the game casually without getting into the grind aspect of it. Sure you won't have the best equipment, but no one is forcing you to be so obsessive about it.

Supermallet

I assumed you did because of all the people I know who have multiple WoW accounts. Why would you need multiple accounts if you can have as many characters as you like?

bunkaroo

You need multiple accounts to play characters simultaneously, but any one account can have 10 characters I believe. I have 6 on one account.

There are probably other reasons to have multiple accounts I'm not aware of.

Fatman

MMO=no sale. I was looking forward to a new star wars KOTOR style game, but I will have to pass on this one.

Supermallet

What do you mean by play characters simultaneously? Are you sitting there with two computers, two keyboards, two mice, and two monitors? I'm not trying to be a smartass, I just don't see how you would play multiple characters in any way other than sequentially.

fumanstan

Not sure if it changed, but it should be 10 per server, but 50 total characters.

No, they can run two instances of the game on the same computer and switch between windows. It's mostly to allow their higher level characters to run through areas with their lower level characters to help them level faster.

JasonF

You obviously missed this thread

Xander

I'm intrigued and excited by the idea of Bioware + Star Wars MMO. If they pull it off, it might just be the game that could pull me away from WoW.

Gooter

The 13 year old "mouthbreakers" have infected Live as well. Halo3, CoD4, etc, etc.

Maxflier

The game I play (Anarchy Online) is $95.40 for a year if you pay for 12 months up front, so $7.95 a month as opposed to the regular $15.
That is the only game I have an open account for but I would imagine most others would have similar pricing structures.

RoQuEr

I'm LOLing at all the misconceptions from all the console gamers here.

Bioware + MMO = easily worth checking out the free trial

Breakfast with Girls

Yep. Same reason as given by JasonF.

Michael Allred

Sadly disappointed. I had hoped beyond hope that we'd get KOTORIII and a continuation of that epic story but alas, no, just another MMO (which seems like a bad idea with another "Star Wars" MMO already out there, won't they cannibalize each other?)

I sure as hell don't have a "gaming" computer so no doubt this game would be out of my league to play anyway but my 360 was begging for KOTORIII. There's a reason fans wanted a third chapter and I don't think BioWare gets it. At all.

Superman07

Nobody seemed to show this yet. I haven't played the other KOTOR games, but this trailer is just great!

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58920

Setzer

Trailer is awesome. Still interested to see where Bioware is going to go with this. Right now it appears it will be a choose your side game, the Republic or the Empire and each side will have 4 classes to choose from. Nothing has been said how PvP will work or if the game will have a player based economy similar to SWG. But I'll definitely be keeping my eye out for this one.

Bandit03

Not really interested in this game (not a fan of MMO's) but that trailer was amazing. Would love to see that kind of Star Wars on the big screen.

Rob V

Not into MMO's myself either... but that trailer is awesome! That's what the 3 prequels should have been!

RocShemp

This really should have been a movie:



Shame it's an MMO.

Rob V

Wow... just Wow.... but MMO - blech.

RocShemp

Jennifer Hale's voice work makes me wish this was a movie:

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Kicker_of_Elves

Awesome video. I've never played a MMO nor am I a PC gamer, but I'm seriously thinking about picking this one up. That is if it ever releases.