SOE confirms subscription model for DCUO

My question too, can Massively confirm this with the SOE?

How is a monthly fee an outdated thing? Tons of MMO players would agree that it's infinitely better than the milking-you-dry edition of cash shops needed to excell in otherwise free MMOs.

I agree on the choice part. But companies are just going F2P with MTs and such. Hence they are not offering a choice.

I for one love the idea of a monthly fee for an MMO rather than being nickeled and dimed to death with a sub par game pushing you towards its cash store through boring or grinding gameplay.

I find the whole MTs and cash store thing a fad, or rather am hoping it is a fad. Now I would like to see a company offer real choice. Cash store with a F2P option, but a sub option that has everything included, including the things in the store. But charge the customer $20/month, then see what happens, which one people choose.

Developers are too heavily favoring the F2P MT model. I am very delighted that this is going the sub route. The only thing is that they will have a cash store, well if they do then I guess I won't be touching this one either. But still going sub these days takes some guts, so I am seriously happy that SOE chose this model.

My thing is choice. Having the only option as a pay per month model is not the best way to go. I like how DDO and soon Lotro have gone. You can pay a monthly fee is you want to and get all content except for bonus type stuff like 2-for-1 traits. OR you can pay as you go so if I do not want to spend more than five hours a month playing a game I can put a few bucks here, buy some content and then not play. Having the choice is what I meant by outdated. Sure its only $14.99 per month, but this is a new game. I was also disappointed with STO. You bring a new game out and just because it is a popular IP suddenly that makes it worthy of having a $14.99 per month price tag on top of the box price? If you are not lucky enough to get into beta then you are going in blind. I have tried many MMO's and I can honestly say that 80% of them do not appeal to me, again this is just me, but I think when it comes to at least trying out a game there should be options. We all know they probably will not have a free trial on this for months unless the sub #'s are not what they want. So my point is options = more player friendly. I am not saying MT's are best, or that cash shops are super cool. I just think that you should have a choice and that is a more updated model than just plain spaghetti $14.99 per month.. Lego Universe also let me down with this..:(

I like what APB is doing. You can either pay the $10 a month subscription fee or pay $7 for 20 hours which you can use anytime.

I tend to wander from one game to another so the hourly fee is a good option. If you want to stay longer you can just switch back to the subscription fee once your hours run out.

Totally agree. I prefer the the $15/mo, all you can eat, play one game at a time model. I would be much more skeptical of anything that uses a micro-transaction system.

Anything that uses both is likely going to result in not playing the game, especially with all the other great console games coming out, beginning in September.

It's a tough balancing act, but the great thing is that we, the player get the final say. Rule number one of playing an MMO is that if you don't like anything, speak with your wallet and don't play. Subscriber numbers and marginal revenue are basically the only two metrics that MMO publishers look at.

Why so we can milk you for still more $ of course! It is $oE we're talking about right? Double-dip, hell we'll triple as soon as we think of a way!

because people have shown with CoH and CO that they are willing to pay in the store for cosmetic things, which is what I think they will be putting in the store.

People are ok with buying cosmetics from the a cash store. That is the message that they have sent the developers and they have responded in kind. So lets not blame the developers, but blame ourselves for allowing them to do this.

bah,

I want to know if it'll be included in the all access SOE pass thingy.

Except that with Station Pass you can't simultaneously play all the games. Some of the infrastructure, bandwidth, and customer service costs are shared, not multiplied, across the games.