Free World of Warcraft - Page 3

budthedog · 11-12-2008

You know you can buy the game for like $3. It's the complete game, just packaged in "two week trial" form.

and of course it gives you the option to continue your experience.

The_Nameless_One · 11-12-2008

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Originally Posted by qwertyas

Actually, I'm not a player of this game. But I don't like to have to pay more than the fee of the program to play in general. I mean, Bliz have SC and Diablo LOD II running and they don't ask a penny for the maintenance you talk about. And they haven't put those services for only a year or a few gamers! So why do it with Wow? Or any other games for that matter?

I'd actually like to see how much it cost for a compagny to produce said CD. If they didn't make a profit on selling the cd only, they wouldn't even produce it in the beginning.

True, Diablo and SC are run for free. (which is how I prefer it to be done). However...Blizzard has chosen a pay scheme for WoW. (perhaps since it requires loads more employees like techs and gamemasters online and servers. Plus doubt diablo for example had weekly maintenance to keep things running smooth etc.)
And they definitely wish to make a profit, like any healthy company.

But....you've missed the point I tried to make. (Likely due to me typing too much).

Seems to me this is how they decided it:

Content patches + technician fees + server running costs + profitmargin = monthly fee.
(more or less)

Development costs + production costs of disc (which is absurdly low) + ...whatever + profitmargin = Purchaseprice of game.

Take away the monthly fee......and poof go servers+technicians meaning unstable game with no help till it crashes. Oh...and no free new contentpatches or fixes.

(The world might be ending since apparently I'm defending blizzard now instead of yelling at them to lower their prices.)

Hooded_Miracle · 11-12-2008

Pirate servers? You insult pirates everywhere. Real pirates PLUNDER, not steal. They also aren't the sissy nancies who steal technology. No, they RAID the building and PLUNDER the technology, then sail away with it.

Besides, Blizzard makes near-perfect games on PC. No one game they've ever made (recently, anyway) has gotten a score below 80%. I'm sure of it.

budthedog · 11-12-2008

http://www.metacritic.com/games/plat...rne?q=blizzard

ZodiacX · 11-12-2008

Why are Diablo, SC and warcraft 3 free to play online? Because all youre doing is useing the battlenet hub to connect to the other players. All the cpu useage, bandwidth, etc is comeing from the Host (You, if you started the game), with the exception of D2's realm characters, in which they simply store your character file so you cant hack it. The costs and data storage there is minimal, instead of the countless terrabytes flowing off a WoW server on a daily basis, not to mention the actual hardware being taxed by so many players.

For a better anology, its like calling someone. The switchboard takes you call, connects you, then goes to the next call, leaving party a and b to talk to each other without any more assistance from the switchboard. In most MMO's you would be required to be connected to the switchboard at all times, along with everyone else playing the server.

11-12-2008	#25
budthedog Banned Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 362	Re: Free World of Warcraft You know you can buy the game for like $3. It's the complete game, just packaged in "two week trial" form. and of course it gives you the option to continue your experience. Last edited by budthedog; 11-12-2008 at 02:41 PM.

11-12-2008	#27
Hooded_Miracle Banned Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1,313	Re: Free World of Warcraft Pirate servers? You insult pirates everywhere. Real pirates PLUNDER, not steal. They also aren't the sissy nancies who steal technology. No, they RAID the building and PLUNDER the technology, then sail away with it. Besides, Blizzard makes near-perfect games on PC. No one game they've ever made (recently, anyway) has gotten a score below 80%. I'm sure of it.

11-12-2008	#28
budthedog Banned Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 362	Re: Free World of Warcraft http://www.metacritic.com/games/plat...rne?q=blizzard

11-12-2008	#29
ZodiacX Ninja Ferret! Woosh! Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 801	Re: Free World of Warcraft Why are Diablo, SC and warcraft 3 free to play online? Because all youre doing is useing the battlenet hub to connect to the other players. All the cpu useage, bandwidth, etc is comeing from the Host (You, if you started the game), with the exception of D2's realm characters, in which they simply store your character file so you cant hack it. The costs and data storage there is minimal, instead of the countless terrabytes flowing off a WoW server on a daily basis, not to mention the actual hardware being taxed by so many players. For a better anology, its like calling someone. The switchboard takes you call, connects you, then goes to the next call, leaving party a and b to talk to each other without any more assistance from the switchboard. In most MMO's you would be required to be connected to the switchboard at all times, along with everyone else playing the server.