Guild Wars! - MMO with no fees?

**Trippledence** · 24-04-2005, 08:54 PM

http://www.guildwars.com/default.html

Looks pretty cool. Im alwase put of by mmo's montly fees. Seen as i want to feel like a have to play a game. This looks pretty cool. Opinyons?

**Yohji** · 24-04-2005, 08:58 PM

Yeah, it looks great. PvP too, which would be fun... Espescially in large groups.

**Yohji** · 24-04-2005, 09:05 PM

Looks like good graphics too.

**XA04** · 24-04-2005, 09:06 PM

It was used to be going to be free.. but now you have to pay

**skuzgib** · 24-04-2005, 09:14 PM

Nah, there are no monthly fees, so once pay for the game that's it. I might be tempted...

**Yohji** · 24-04-2005, 09:23 PM

I think the only payment is the optional expansions... But that's the same for all games..

**Trippledence** · 24-04-2005, 09:25 PM

Originally Posted by XA04

It was used to be going to be free.. but now you have to pay

Do you mean like totaly 100% free. Or free montly?

**Stoo** · 24-04-2005, 09:42 PM

I presume that this is going to be funded by product placement eventually..

**Trippledence** · 24-04-2005, 10:09 PM

I expect theres going to be a steady torrent of expansion packs.

MD · 25-04-2005, 08:29 AM

HEXUS spoke with NCSoft, who were displaying the Guild Wars game at CTS this month, the game is a standard game purchase price and there are no subscription fees for the use of the software. You are right in the conclusion of expansion packs, this is how the revenue stream for the company will keep the game alive.

The most impressive bit for me was all the expansion packs will able to work together no matter which ones you run.

m@

**Allen** · 25-04-2005, 08:32 AM

So instead of charging a monthly fee and releasing free patches/upgrades, they're not charging a monthly fee and charging for expansion packs?

Sounds like 6 of one, half a dozen of the other to me. Does look pretty good though, but I'm not leaving WoW.

MD · 25-04-2005, 08:39 AM

patches will be free of course, but expansion packs have always been 'paid for'

m@

**Nox** · 25-04-2005, 08:51 AM

expansions will also be entirely optional... monthly fees aren't. so if the expansion is dire, don't buy it.

Nox

**Nick F** · 25-04-2005, 09:05 AM

That actually looks really cool, I have never been into MMORPG but this might sway me.

**Allen** · 25-04-2005, 09:38 AM

Originally Posted by Matt D

patches will be free of course, but expansion packs have always been 'paid for'

m@

I suppose, but with every free patch in WoW you get more content added, so they could be classed as expansions.

**Dooms** · 25-04-2005, 09:57 AM

The whole game is like one giant 'instance' you go into a town where there are loads of people, get your group together and as soon as your leave the town your group is all alone doing the quests you need to do... wont be stumbling over other random people who have killed the thing your after

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