Sony Online Entertainment dropping the price for Station Access

@Yellowdancer There will be trolls. It's SOE. But I agree with you.

@Yellowdancer Soon smg will appear and troll on SWG.

@Yellowdancer

Yeah, this deal is pretty tempting, but it's an SOE article. There are never not trolls in an SOE article.

@Raikulxox. Trolls and negative comments are not the same. Learn the difference because your ignorance annoys me.

@Monkey D Luffy My point was there was nothing negative/trollworthy about this. How is approving it is a nice deal being negative? =/

@Raikulxox

I'll tell you how you can be negative at this, since I had no positive thoughts when I first looked at it.

The "deal" is $20 for a bunch of games that very few people want to play (as shown by their player numbers). Giving someone a "good deal" on something they don't want in the first place is not giving them a deal at all.

For those few people who enjoy one of those titles, it is a chance to essentially try out the other games for $5 more. But, most people who enjoy one of those titles likely won't enjoy/have the time for a second title anyway.

Look at it this way. MMO companies pay you, really, for the data you use. When you are subscribing to two of their games, you can only be logged into one at a time. This means you aren't eating up any extra bandwidth and are simply only using a tiny amount of storage space for your other characters. Essentially they make more money and it costs them nothing.

I'm not saying they should do it, it is a smart business move, but it shouldn't ever be more than $20 for that type of system which makes $20 a standard price and not a "good deal".

@SnarlingWolf

Well, you're actually eating up a lot of storage space with SOE games...compared to other games. People don't really give SOE credit for what they created. They have 5 MMO's with a housing system. Even sandbox games don't rival their housing sytems. Great crafting systems in 3 of their games. And EQ2 is the only game I can think of with a real strict character limit...but that was before dynamic databases were implemented. And they have kept every character since their first game launched 12 years ago. That's a lot of storage.

Personally, I mainly just play EQ2. But I have upgraded to station pass to get access to SWG from time to time. Still a fun time sink.

I DO like the new changes coming from SOE since the whole hacking thing. Someone finally realized they're not 2nd to Blizzard anymore and they can't expect to force their games down enough people's throats to be successful. There are just too many options out there these days and next year looks to be even more promising.(I'm not counting on TOR to come out this year...hope it does though)

@HokieKC I think it will actually be a good thing for them. They likely did the math and came to realize they didn't have many people buying that pass anymore. They also know they only really have EQ2 that has been semi successful for them (of their subscriptions games anyway) and their other games aren't really worth their subscription fees. So by making the pass that much cheaper, it should breathe some life into those other games. I know if I were a EQ2 player and saw that deal, I would pay the $5 extra for a chance to mess around in Planetside, Vanguard, or even DCUO.

@Enikuo

I'm pretty sure there's no box price for either of those, I had Station Access a couple months ago and was playing SWG and Vanguard although I never purchased the box. With this deal I'll be doing it again.

@chum That's excellent news! I'd love to see how many of the games don't require a box price, but the store won't load : /