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.
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.
Stop making up numbers off the top of your head in order to try to justify that absurd 15 dollars Alak.
First of all, the kind of server you mention is NOT the kind of server in use by SOE. If it was, then the fucking cities wouldn't lag over 5 seconds when they have all of 60 players in them. Also, somewhere earlier I posted a comment on bandwith, I had actually done some looking up. For your 150.000 dollars of bandwith you can get 150.000 / 2.750 = 54 NxT1-6Mbps lines, which equals 324Mbps. If you think that this game has anything near a THOUSANDTH of that bandwith, you really need to fire up that network monitor (shift alt G if I remember correctly), and look how much data is sent to and from your machine. Now multiply that by 3000 people. Doesn't really get anywhere near it, now does it?
Creston
Edit : If anything I would say its because EA said so when they made UO which (I believe) was the first MMORPG that was pay to play per month
Meridian59 I believe, actually.
This comment was edited on Jun 20, 01:50.
Stop making up numbers off the top of your head in order to try to justify that absurd 15 dollars Alak.
First of all, the kind of server you mention is NOT the kind of server in use by SOE. If it was, then the fucking cities wouldn't lag over 5 seconds when they have all of 60 players in them. Also, somewhere earlier I posted a comment on bandwith, I had actually done some looking up. For your 150.000 dollars of bandwith you can get 150.000 / 2.750 = 54 NxT1-6Mbps lines, which equals 324Mbps. If you think that this game has anything near a THOUSANDTH of that bandwith, you really need to fire up that network monitor (shift alt G if I remember correctly), and look how much data is sent to and from your machine. Now multiply that by 3000 people. Doesn't really get anywhere near it, now does it?
Creston
Edit : If anything I would say its because EA said so when they made UO which (I believe) was the first MMORPG that was pay to play per month
Meridian59 I believe, actually.
This comment was edited on Jun 20, 01:50.
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