hatycat

I think different environments spawn different forms of behaviour. Nobody wants to be that one bad guy on LTT. I mean on a certain tech image board I visit as a guilty pleasure I am kind of like those people on reddit. While here I try to be as courteous and respectful as possible. But yeah this is the only tech forum in the world where you can post that you run an 8350 without everyone swearing at you before you can even justify why.

I am curious to hear people's thoughts on the Elder Scrolls online pricing model.
The pricing is as such: $60 for the game, $100 for the Imperial edition that gives you all the content, such as the ability to play as an imperial, and then $15 a month to actually play the game(first month is free with purchase).
To me this price is a tad bit ridiculous it totals to $225 just to play the game for a year, and $265 for the first year to play as an imperial.

I understand a subscription model worked well for WoW, But I feel that a lot of variables have changed, such as:

1.  When WoW came out there was no other MMO to compete with it and steal your membership
2. WoW existed before a lot of successful F2P and one time purchase games online games existed.
3. It's freaking WoW there will never be a game as addictive as WoW.

But at $15 a month ESO is not only more expensive then WoW, but  more expensive then Netflix and XBL combined as well.

I personally feel a more reasonable pricing of P2P would be to either charge the same amount for the game, and than two options of a $9.99 monthly subscription or a $59.99 annual subscription, with more like 3 months included free.

Or to continue charging $15 a month, but giving everyone the digital imperial edition of the game for free.


any way I would love to hear other people's thoughts on the pricing, are you willing to pay said price? did it make you cancel your preorder? or were you expecting it be even more?
all views and opinions are welcome.
 

I am curious to hear people's thoughts on the Elder Scrolls online pricing model.
The pricing is as such: $60 for the game, $100 for the Imperial edition that gives you all the content, such as the ability to play as an imperial, and then $15 a month to actually play the game(first month is free with purchase).
To me this price is a tad bit ridiculous it totals to $225 just to play the game for a year, and $265 for the first year to play as an imperial.

I understand a subscription model worked well for WoW, But I feel that a lot of variables have changed, such as:

1.  When WoW came out there was no other MMO to compete with it and steal your membership
2. WoW existed before a lot of successful F2P and one time purchase games online games existed.
3. It's freaking WoW there will never be a game as addictive as WoW.

But at $15 a month ESO is not only more expensive then WoW, but  more expensive then Netflix and XBL combined as well.

I personally feel a more reasonable pricing of P2P would be to either charge the same amount for the game, and than two options of a $9.99 monthly subscription or a $59.99 annual subscription, with more like 3 months included free.

Or to continue charging $15 a month, but giving everyone the digital imperial edition of the game for free.


any way I would love to hear other people's thoughts on the pricing, are you willing to pay said price? did it make you cancel your preorder? or were you expecting it be even more?
all views and opinions are welcome.
 

So you pay $60 for the first month?
Much wow.

I have a funny feeling this could turn out to be vapourware. I mean they are playing it like they had the technology the whole time, and it just never dawned on them to use it for gaming applications? I have a funny feeling this will never happen and it is just AMD trying to take some of the buzz away from G-sync.

Razer eh? seems legit.

8 SSDs in raid 0.

8 SSDs in raid 0.

8 SSDs in raid 0.

8 SSDs in raid 0.

8 SSDs in raid 0.

I kind of agree, I don't think a gamer is anyone who plays videogames. I mean you don't say, oh I watched twilight I am a film buff, playing cod does not make you a gamer.

OMG BUDDIES!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE THE SAME KB AND THE SAME PROBLEMS

Well if I have learned anything from ISP's cablr companies and canadian Cell providers, it's if there is progress and someone in the market is not at the helm of it, they do their best to kill it with fire, I expect M$ and Sony to fight harder for exclsuvity with publishers.

Well if I have learned anything from ISP's cablr companies and canadian Cell providers, it's if there is progress and someone in the market is not at the helm of it, they do their best to kill it with fire, I expect M$ and Sony to fight harder for exclsuvity with publishers.

Well if I have learned anything from ISP's cablr companies and canadian Cell providers, it's if there is progress and someone in the market is not at the helm of it, they do their best to kill it with fire, I expect M$ and Sony to fight harder for exclsuvity with publishers.

Well if I have learned anything from ISP's cablr companies and canadian Cell providers, it's if there is progress and someone in the market is not at the helm of it, they do their best to kill it with fire, I expect M$ and Sony to fight harder for exclsuvity with publishers.

Well if I have learned anything from ISP's cablr companies and canadian Cell providers, it's if there is progress and someone in the market is not at the helm of it, they do their best to kill it with fire, I expect M$ and Sony to fight harder for exclsuvity with publishers.

At first I wasn't really to excited about them, as I plan on running multi-gpu and even with frame pacing drivers it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. if anything I was excited for the titan/780 price drop that will most likely occur....


But after this video I think I will run 4 in quadfire, I don't need food or gas or to buy any games to run on them....

It's playable. Had to adjust my eyes from PC gaming graphics back to console ones to play it though. 

Girl, Take off your heatsink so I can squeeze my Thermal Compound all over you... IDK I tried.

Girl, Take off your heatsink so I can squeeze my Thermal Compound all over you... IDK I tried.

Girl, Take off your heatsink so I can squeeze my Thermal Compound all over you... IDK I tried.

Girl, Take off your heatsink so I can squeeze my Thermal Compound all over you... IDK I tried.

Is your name Haswell? Because you're f*cking hot.