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.
It costs alot to maintain servers in an MMORPG. Lets Break it down a bit. For a Server to run on this magnitude, you need about 25MHz per player. Then on top of that, you need about 8MB of Ram per player. Say the Average server holds 3000 people, 25MHz x 3000 = 75,000MHz. Plus the Ram 8MB x 3000 = 24,000MB. Thats one expensive server. Of course there are ways to bring it down, this is the formula a buddy showed me. I think a Rack of 10 Dual XEON systems with 2GB of ram each is more realistic (30GHz, 20GB Ram total). Then on top of that, the bandiwidth. 1 Mbit per person x 3000 = 3000 Mbit. Now if memory serves me correct, that ranks up around the OC-128 Mark. So you looking at at least $250,000 US for one complete Server setup, plus an average of (off the top of my head) perhaps about $150,000 US Bandwidth and maintenance per month. Now times that by 10 (say theres 10 servers at launch, theres 4 right now). Now say you can charge nothing a month to play the game, let alone less than $15 a month. But half the people here are right. Wait a bit before the game comes out. A couple months, keep an eye on the forums to see when the vehicles hit and the mayjority of bugs are fixed.
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