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.
Man, some of you people need to get a job a quit bitching about $144 for 13 months (first month's free).
Look at all those kids buying PS2/Gamecube games costing $50 each, and those games dont nearly cost as much to produce and dont require $six-figure$ servers to run on!
Ok, fair enough, but the client should be downloadable with a free at least week of Play. after the week, if the game is good I would be willing to pay the full retail price for the initial box. AO does this, as do a few other MMO's I believe.
The overhead excuse is a weak one though, at 15 bucks a month they will surely cover the overhead, it just seems that they are not willing to put their talent to the test and thusly cannot count on it to come through for them. In other words, they aren't confedent enough in their product to be allow a try-before-you-buy, and I am left asking myself "I wonder why?".
They could provide such a plan, but will not. Not because its not posible, but rather simply because they choose not to. Makes ya wonder where their priorities are...
This comment was edited on Jun 19, 12:38.
Look at all those kids buying PS2/Gamecube games costing $50 each, and those games dont nearly cost as much to produce and dont require $six-figure$ servers to run on!
Ok, fair enough, but the client should be downloadable with a free at least week of Play. after the week, if the game is good I would be willing to pay the full retail price for the initial box. AO does this, as do a few other MMO's I believe.
The overhead excuse is a weak one though, at 15 bucks a month they will surely cover the overhead, it just seems that they are not willing to put their talent to the test and thusly cannot count on it to come through for them. In other words, they aren't confedent enough in their product to be allow a try-before-you-buy, and I am left asking myself "I wonder why?".
They could provide such a plan, but will not. Not because its not posible, but rather simply because they choose not to. Makes ya wonder where their priorities are...
This comment was edited on Jun 19, 12:38.
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