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This says more about their fiscal responsibilities (they can afford a full priced game in one shot but not four months subscription?) but it was for that sort of person that Guild Wars was aimed. I personally remember people in school and college not being able to afford World of Warcraft but buying Guild Wars because it meant they didn’t need to set up a direct debit or whatever to pay monthly. It was an alternate, and that’s what made it a success.
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Gone were the days of $20+ for an hour of playtime - the going rate in the early nineties - but it still wasn’t a cheap hobby and for a console or casual PC gamers having access to a massively multiplayer world without the massively multiplayer costs was a great idea. Free-to-Play - outside of Neopets and its ilk – wasn’t an option, so you can imagine how revolutionary the opportunity to buy into an MMO without any long terms costs could be. There were some great games (several which had been out longer than WoW) but for many the initial cost and on-going subscription was an instant reason not to try out a new game unless it had a large backing and definitely wasn’t going to end up being a complete flop. World of Warcraft, unsurprisingly, was king, and for anybody looking for alternatives, the cupboard was bare. Guild Wars came out at an interesting point for MMOs. Has Guild Wars 2 been given a free pass based on appreciation of an outdated method of sale or is this the sort of MMO price scheme people would like to see in the future? Today I sat down to write a piece about Guild Wars 2 and about its means of access and I couldn’t for the life of me work out exactly why a “subscription” as available in Guild Wars 2 is still relevant in today’s world of Free-to-Play and constant micro-transactions.
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That’s what I thought, until today that is. They’re not going to make you pay monthly – which is a plus, of course – and that gives it a staunch advantage over the competition.
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It’s something that I’ve rather taken as a given over the last few months: the Guild Wars 2 folks know what they’re doing when it comes to subscriptions.