Star Wars Galaxies Date & Subscriptions [Jun 17, 2003, 2:45 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A press release
on The Star Wars Galaxies Website (thanks Jody Overstreet and SWG
Warcry) has a release date for the Star Wars MMORPG as well as a description
of the game's subscription plans. Here's a bit:
LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment Inc. today announced Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, the highly anticipated initial installment of the first Star Wars massively multiplayer online (MMO) game series, will release June 26, 2003. The Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided online fan community now exceeds more than 500,000 registered members.
At launch Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided will offer four subscription plan options: Month-to-month - $14.99; three months - $14.00 per month; six months - $13.00 per month; and 12 months - $12.00 per month. By subscribing to any of the latter three plans, players can expect savings of up to 20 percent over the month-to-month rate. Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided has a suggested retail price of $49.95, and includes a 30-day subscription to the game. A special collector's edition, which includes a book of game-related art, in-game wearables, pewter figurine, lapel pin and patch, and a signed manual, will be available for a suggested retail price of $79.95.
The $49.99 is paying for some of the development of the game (3 years in this case) and the monthly fee is essentially paying for the live services.
cough *bullshit* cough
It doesn't cost six million a month to run some servers. Not in this lifetime.
I totally agree that the only way I'm going to pay a monthly fee for a game is if the initial release is either free or only costs the same $14.99 that the first month would cost.
Oh, and I'd NEVER pay a monthly fee to wave a lightsaber around and pretend I was a "Jedi Knight." I'll just wait for Raven's new game, which if it's as good as the last one, will make it 100 times better than pay per play online wookie harvesting crap.
-LordSteev
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