What's the deal with the "Subscription" thing?

[Reverend Belial]

This game looks like it's worth a try, but I keep reading mentions of a subcription. What exactly would I be locked out of if I didn't subcribe/pay anything?

[virpyre]

$14.99 Monthly Gold Benefits or $299 Lifetime

Free Comstume
Each month, Gold Subscribers will enjoy a new costume piece. These exclusive costume pieces are only available to subscribers, and each piece will only be available for one month.

Free Zen
Every month Gold Members will receive 500 Zen to spend on the C-Store.

All Archetypes
Why limit yourself to only a few Archetypes when creating your Champion? Gold players get access to a wider range of freedom with premium archetypes

Freeform Character
Unlock even more customization: Mix and match your starting powers from any archetype. Tailor your hero's characteristics by choosing an innate Talent. Archetypes are built and balanced to provide everything a hero needs, but those who want complete control can use a Custom Champion!

Other Benefits
+8 Character Slots instead of 2.
Free Adventure Packs instead of having to buy them.
Costume Slots +3 instead of 1.
+4 Inventory Bag Slots instead of 1.
All Special travel powers are free, no unlock required.
100 Market Slots instead of just 10.
Resource Limit is capped at 250,000G instead of just 250G.
Veteran Rewards
Chat is unrestricted
Voice Chat is Add Free
Mailbox is not limited on what you can send, or how many you can send.
Forum Access is unrestricted, you can post any where anytime.
Customer Support is much better, you also get live support chat.
All subscribers get priority login over Silver Players.

LTA won't revert you back to Silver, but if you unsub at anytime then you go back to silver. Anything that you unlocked via zen store with zen points will stay unlocked for your account.

[𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕚𝕕𝕠𝕟]

No subscription through Steam yet? That is a shame.

[Milktray]

the Lifetime subscription is worth it

[Reverend Belial]

Yikes, never mind then.

[Milktray]

woek how much you'd pay subbing to the game for a year, then look at the price of the LTS .. then the benefit that after the 1 off payment you can play as much or as little as you want with 0 thought about sub, all paid for upfront. You don't get the 'i must play to make my $15 worth it' that some get

[Reverend Belial]

That's all well and good but there's no reason I should have to pay $300 for a free game.

[𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕚𝕕𝕠𝕟]

$300 is a lot of money. But if you save a few bucks per month, something that you usually spend on things that is one use only, like watch a movie, or buy some fancy food. You might eventually pay for it. The question is, will be worthy for at least 2 years?

$15 monthly * 12 months (year) = $180 + 8 months = lifetime cost.

[virpyre]

Sometimes they have Subscription Sale very rarely do they have Liifetime Sales...me myself I'm just a silver player.

[WiseG33k]

I've been pondering myself if the lifetime membership is worth it. I've been playing on and off for the last three years, and I regret not having bought the lifetime membership when the game first launched as it would have definitely paid for itself by now.

However, at this point in the game's life cycle, I doubt the game will be around for much longer. It has been more or less abandoned by the developers for a while now. I wager it has maybe a year left in it before it closes down. Thus I wouldn't bother paying for the lifetime membership.

[WiseG33k]

Oh and if you've never played the game, try it free at first because once you get access to freeform archetypes it's nearly impossible to go back.

[Milktray]

Never underestimate a games lifespan, UO they thought would be dead after EQ .. Still going.

[WiseG33k]

That's true, but it's fair to say that in today's market, UO is very much the exception to the rule.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von WiseG33k:

I've been pondering myself if the lifetime membership is worth it. I've been playing on and off for the last three years, and I regret not having bought the lifetime membership when the game first launched as it would have definitely paid for itself by now.

However, at this point in the game's life cycle, I doubt the game will be around for much longer. It has been more or less abandoned by the developers for a while now. I wager it has maybe a year left in it before it closes down. Thus I wouldn't bother paying for the lifetime membership.

Or, you could just do whatever you feel like and not listen to people that obviously don't know what's going on with a game that aren't involved in, don't have a stake in and have (obviously) no inside information about either.

Freeform pays for itself in a much shorter period of time than you'd think considering you also get zen each month, access to all of the veteran rewards as soon as you become a lifetime member (forgoing the normal wait for 1,000 days to collect all perks), and all the benefits afforded gold members as well.

The bottom line about the lifespan of MMOs is: There is no way to know anything about how long any game will last. The closing of MMOs is pretty much a thing of the past considering the low level of cost a game requires for maintenance anymore. Especially if a game company already has a server for other games.

[WiseG33k]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bacon Overlord:

Or, you could just do whatever you feel like and not listen to people that obviously don't know what's going on with a game that aren't involved in, don't have a stake in and have (obviously) no inside information about either.

Well, that was unnecessarily confrontational. You might not have seen it that way, but it was quite obvious I was speaking my mind and I'm sure the OP understood that was my opinion. Of course I'm not involved with the game's development but I've been playing long enough (still was, until two months ago), to see the obvious decline in content, patches, and overall activity from the player side and developer side. Nothing remotely significant has been announced either.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bacon Overlord:

The bottom line about the lifespan of MMOs is: There is no way to know anything about how long any game will last. The closing of MMOs is pretty much a thing of the past considering the low level of cost a game requires for maintenance anymore. Especially if a game company already has a server for other games.

That's true, online game servers can stay active much longer for lower costs nowadays, but there's a difference in an online game that is still playable and put on maintenance mode (as I find is currently the case with CO), and one that remains alive and well.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von WiseG33k:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bacon Overlord:

Or, you could just do whatever you feel like and not listen to people that obviously don't know what's going on with a game that aren't involved in, don't have a stake in and have (obviously) no inside information about either.

Well, that was unnecessarily confrontational. You might not have seen it that way, but it was quite obvious I was speaking my mind and I'm sure the OP understood that was my opinion. Of course I'm not involved with the game's development but I've been playing long enough (still was, until two months ago), to see the obvious decline in content, patches, and overall activity from the player side and developer side. Nothing remotely significant has been announced either.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bacon Overlord:

The bottom line about the lifespan of MMOs is: There is no way to know anything about how long any game will last. The closing of MMOs is pretty much a thing of the past considering the low level of cost a game requires for maintenance anymore. Especially if a game company already has a server for other games.

That's true, online game servers can stay active much longer for lower costs nowadays, but there's a difference in an online game that is still playable and put on maintenance mode (as I find is currently the case with CO), and one that remains alive and well.

And you wondered why it was uncessarily confrontational even though I didn't respond for your benefit.....

If you actually did some research you'd know they opened a new area, new missions, lots of new costumes, new titles, new vehicles, new everything in just the last two months... Not to mention the halloween event, the anniversary event, etc.

sooooooo... Like I said, the person should make up their own mind rather than listen to someone that doesn't know what they are talking about.

Oh.. and, sorry for your ego... I guess?