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A simple survey: How many months of MMO did you pay/play per year?
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A simple survey: How many months of MMO did you pay/play per year?
1-3 Months?
3-6 Months?
7-9 Months?
10-12 Months?
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1-3 Months?
3-6 Months?
7-9 Months?
10-12 Months?
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Yeah but that poll option doesn't seems available.
And the result being skewed isn't important because I just want a general stats among people in this section.
Anyway I payed for 12 months of CoX and a month of DaoC, I also played 3.5 months of WAR but I didn't pay for that(aside from the cost of the box).
So I'm gonna say 18 months of MMO subscription this year.
If your subscription has been active that long and you've paid monthly (as opposed to bulk plans) you've shelled out $720 easily on monthly fees alone. Granted that's over four years, but still.
I've found that paying $15 a month for an MMO is cheaper than what it would cost to keep me entertained by buying single player games that last a week.
This year I've played 8 months of CoX on my main account and at least 2 on my alt account, though I get free time by referring my inactive accounts back to the game.
Yeah I know I wasted a ton of money especially since some months I only played a day.
And I payed for 3 months of WAR time, because Mythic are assholes and don't let you access the "free" month that comes with the game unless you buy more time first, so if you play with time cards you are screwed over.
Edit: If you mean how much we pay at a time. One month at a time for me.
It is much, much, much cheaper than taking her to see all the new movies that come out, or going to other places of entertainment such as concerts, plays etc. We still do go to all those, but much more rarely than we would if we didn't play WoW. I pay 30$ per month for both us to play.. I can go through 30$ easily just at the movie theater once you add in popcorn/soda, then there's usually dinner afterwards.
We went to a NIN concert, that cost us $100 just for the tickets, then again concessions, and we went to dinner before hand.
MMO's are super cheap, and I love them for being so.
The method sucks for time card users, but if you just own a CC you can punch it in then cancel without it ever charging you anything. And unless you're a kid whose parents won't let them use a CC, there's no reason not to have one.
I've been playing WoW pretty consistently since release. ~2 month breaks here and there.
I usually pay 3 months at a time.
I also have played Guild Wars for about 3 years and own all of the campaigns and the expansion. It's probably my favorite MMO so far, and by far the best-looking one out there.
To top this list off I've been playing Eve Online for nearly a month now and it's pretty goddamn good as well. I may continue to pay for it if it holds my interest and I can continue to put forth the time to play.
Before that played DAoC from release till WoW with a one year break.
I played some stuff on and off before that but never more than a month.
I have been subscribed to an MMO, on average, about 10 months every year since 2000. There were some large breaks at times but I was subbed to CoX for 4+ years without stopping. I dropped CoX this year a month before WAR went live so this year I've subbed for 10 months if you don't count the free month WAR came with.
I like MMOs and, as others have said, they certainly save me money. I don't play them every day but I usually feel guilty about buying new games while subbed to an MMO. My MMO subscription provides incentive for me to save money in other places. I know from the months I haven't been subbed in the past that MMOs have saved me a good deal of cash. Oh lord, and now that the wife is all about WAR our entertainment expenses have plummeted.
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Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
From EQ1's release sometime in '99 to today in 2008, I do not believe I've had a month without an MMO payment.
I have tired Warhammer off and on for the last few months and it just doesn't feel like Warhammer to me
When I think about it over the 6 years I have played and paid for MMOs with a few breaks inbetween
I pay 6 months at a time for Warcraft there is a new "fat kid" tax here so it's not as cheap as it seems
Me? I paid for probably 3 months of CoX, and played maybe 2 - 3 weeks at most. MMOs are good when I don't have school or complicated stuff to worry about. I can shut my brain off for the weekend and just grind away.
More than one account.
Multiple subscriptions
No, dinner and a movie with a girlfriend is way better than a day of gaming on WoW. But paying for a dinner and a movie every friday night is not better than having money for anything else ever.
If there's a movie out she really wants to see, it's a no brainer, we go. WoW keeps us from going and seeing shit movies we don't really want to see, just cause we're bored. Or going to the mall, and spending 100$ on shit we don't need, just cause we're bored. WoW keeps us from going to the bars every weekend and spending about 100$ a weekend on booze, just cause we wanted to go "do somethin".
WoW and other MMO's are just simply more entertaining than regular home activities such as watching TV, and the cost per month easily outweighs the cost of other things we could be doing trying to stay entertained. Because of WoW, we no longer want to have 300 channel cable packages, because it's not worth it. Where we used to flip through the channels constantly.
It's not good because then you don't have to take the GF out, it's good because then you don't go out unelss you really want to, and do save a shitload of money that way.
I actually have about 14 - 15 months for 2008. I had a brief period, aside from WoW, where I was playing City of Heroes / Villains (I might resubscribe here soon).
We still go to movies or watch them at home or go downtown or a million of other things just not as much as we did before WAR. Besides nothing makes for a better "date" than your little duo being a major factor in winning a close match in Phoenix Gate. I find MMOs preferable to movies with my wife because we talk a hell of a lot more.
As for the 13 bucks a month we spend on wow vs going out? We get movies sent to us in the mail by blockbuster, turn them in at the store for a free rental and then get a free rental of something extra each month. And just last week we took our 7 year old granddaughter to the Ballet. So we still go out and do stuff, but we also spend time playing an MMO together.
This is fun, but my main justification is if I'm not suscribing to an MMO, I'm jumping between console/single player games, and will buy at least one new game a month. I'm basically replacing ~$50/month on a new game with $15/month on just WoW. And it's plenty fun and I have great friendships with my guildmates, moreso than any other onling game I've played (like TF2, CS, etc; even when I play on one server or join clans).
And it is also fun to just stay in and run an instance on a Saturday, beats going to the mall clothes-shopping.
And if your guildmates live closeby the occasoinal get together at a bar or restaurant is a lot of fun. Nothing beats drunken WoW stories at a sporta bar, while people around you are utterly confused on what you're talkign about :P
Bah at this point people don't get confused anymore. They all know you are talking about WoW.
My dad is a truck driver, and he loves playing online poker. He would understand that those people were talking about some kind of game. His only question would be whether they were talking about some kind of PnP/Table top game or a game online.
I've got almost 5 years of CoX over two accounts, minus 2 included months, minus maybe 8 months of free time from referrals to myself or others, so 47 x $15 = $705
Plus $50 for CoH, $60 for CoV (collector's ed), $20 for GvE ed (2nd account) and I think $15 for the CoH DVD ed upgrade to my main account.
So $850 over the past 4 years, 8 months, or $15.18 a month. Including the months I didn't actually have either account active.
Edit: Fixed math
That seems like a hilariously tiny amount. I wonder how many hours of joy and entertainment you got for such a small sum. MMO's seem like a really good deal.
Also, I would be interested in how many non-MMO games people played while subbed to an MMO. Do most of you just play the MMO, or do the MMO+ any other games that come out?
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What's really fun is comparing our addiction (MMOs) to other peoples addictions, like tobacco, or alcohol!
One of my friends rags on me for wasting so much money on WoW, yet smokes a pack a day. He goes through more money in a week, than I do in two months. (Cigs are up over 5$ a pack where I'm at now, don't know about where you guys are).
EDIT: And my GF and I have a Wii and a DS we play. We buy a new game for one or the other probably.. every 4 months or so. Pretty much she has her Marios on the DS, I have my Smash Bros, and we both have the Mario Karts, so we're set.
I can, however, afford to buy plenty of Non-MMOs. I have every system under the sun and probably buy, on average, two games every month, sometimes three. I will also often buy games for systems that aren't "current" anymore, like PSOne titles, Dreamcast stuff or NeoGeo Pocket games.
That said: I have a huge backlog and have probably only beaten 4 games in the past two years