Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect

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• mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is called renting… not purchasing for ownership.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, there are some very celebrated games that commit to this approach. Final Fantasy XIV and WoW keep getting away with it, and there are others.

    Of course, they had to work for a long time to earn that pedigree and price tag. This certainly has not.

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    • Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And other celebrated games, Everquest, are 100% free to play up to the most recent 2 expansions. There is a paid subscription that unlocked slightly more powerful spells, quick alternate ability progression, and…i dont remember… You can pay about $10 for the quick ability progression instantly but the spells are unimportant. You could also just buy the expansions without subscriptions, or you could just wait a year for your next free dosage of content. Hell theres enough content free for a few years of play without needing to buy anything.

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    • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      FFXIV has certainly earned it over the years, and in the case of WoW, isn’t it only the most recent expac that costs extra? I think you get all the previous ones, and WoW Classic, for just subscribing.

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• Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just play City of Heroes. It’s still running in private servers, and Homecoming is even doing active development on new powers and questlines.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not only is it still running on private servers, those private servers have the blessing of the original devs. If I’m remembering correctly, they even provided the admins some dev tools and code

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• Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can’t believe the devs sat there, built that abomination, and said, yeah $45 and $15 a month sounds about right…

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• dom@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would be far more open to mo they subscriptions if I didnt have to pay for the game upfront.

  I would probably play wow and pay monthly if i didnt have to pay for the game and all the expansions as well as the subscription.

  Just too much money imo for what I would get out of the experience

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• Zarxrax@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A ship sounds a lot less exciting than a city.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    *Unless it’s a murder-mystery, but then Train > Ship

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• RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  …you know what, I think I’ll go play City of Heroes again.

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  • ProfThadBach@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I play on Homecoming. I played the original and it is the only MMO at the time I had high level characters. It was just a blast. I recreated my main in Homecoming. Dark masiama/ psych healer. I was never without a group. I just hovered behind the tank and kept them toped up and buffed. I also played Champions and even have a lifetime membership but it does not match City of Heroes. The only thing I would like is for Homecoming to add some sort of group voice chat.

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    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I like no voice chat, but I have had absolutely horrible times with voice chats.

      My main character was a scrapper martial artist. I just mostly remember I managed to make her covered with clothes from head to toe and shrouded in shadows. “What was that blur of smoke?” one might ask. “It’s me! Here to punch!” nyoom nyoom was my living. And punching.

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• _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s, uh, a bold play.

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  • 7toed@midwest.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And uh its YOUR fault, so uh don’t buy our game? Wait wait - do buy our game, but you should feel bad

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