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In article <1102709060.543649.234740@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
hidone@hotmail.com says...
>
> 42 wrote:
> > In article <41B8D058.F45F488B@gomonarch.com>,
> > XvirtualDoNotSpamMe@gomonarch.com says...
> > >
> > >
> > > Richard Wingrove wrote:
> > >
> > > > According to this post on the official forums:
> > > >
>
http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=news_announcements&message.id=28
> > > >
> > > > you can get an extra four slots by signing up for a Station
> Access subscription
> > > > ($21.99 p/m), which also gets you all the other games from SOE.
> > > >
> > > > So everyone who predicted this, you were right - they're trying
> to get
> > > > alt-oholics to fork out more cash.
> > >
> > > Good for them! I had a lot of Alts in CoH and I think it is
> reasonable to charge for them. If I
> > > get 4 gallons of gas at the gas station and later want 4 more, I
> shouldn't get them for free.
> > >
> >
> > Suppose I buy a used car at the dealer with 4 gallons of gas in it
> for
> > $2000.00. If I want 4 more gallons of gas should I have to pay
> another
> > 1500.00?
> >
> > Perhaps you think we should only get 4 bank slots, with the option of
>
> > paying $6/mo for another 4? Or perhaps our game banks can only hold a
>
> > maxium of 999 coins, with the option of paying another $2/mo for the
> > ability to hold 9999. Or perhaps a limit of 2 people on your friends
> > list, with the ability to add 5 more for $1/mo. Perhaps characters
> > should only be an adventurer OR an artisan... unless you pay another
> > $3/mo to make your character able to do both? Perhaps, you should
> only
> > be able to make good OR evil characters without a nominal upcharge of
>
> > $5/mo to double the amount of 'content' you get to see.
> >
> > I bought everquest the game, and I pay a subscription to access it.
> > Period. I shouldn't have to shell out an additional monthly fee for
> > every feature in the game i want to use. Trying more than 4 of the
> 40+
> > options shouldn't require spending a boat load of cash extra.
> >
> > HD space is cheap. I don't need unlimited characters. Howabout a
> maximum
> > of 50. Lets go nuts and say that needs 1GB of space. (Which is
> utterly
> > ridiculous... I'd be willing to spend 50c/mo to up the number of
> slots
> > from 4 to 50. And I'd still be paying far more than its worth.
>
> I think your analogy of the used car and gas is faulty . What is being
> done with the "pay more get 4 more character slots" or most of the
> rhetorical examples you put forward is more analogous to buying a car
> and dickering over the options. The base model will run just fine, but
> having things like air conditioning, power steering, CD/AM/FM radio and
> stereo speakers, and the High Performance package, etc. make the car
> more enjoyable.
You can think whatever you like but comparing character slots to options
like air or p/s is bullshit.
When you buy EQ you can make any one of the 40+ different character
types. The game -comes- with support for all of them, the subscription -
comes- with support for all of them.
Character slots are not an expansion to the base game. They merely let
you play with more of the options you've already purchased -at the same
time-.
If you bought a car that *included* air conditioning, powersteering, and
a cd player. (Ie the components were *all* already IN the car that you
are driving, but the dealership set it up so that in order to have the
radio on at the same time you used the Power Steering you had to pay an
extra monthly fee then we'd have a much closer approximation for what
EQ2 is doing with such limited character slots. (And EQ2 is worse,
because you -can- delete characters to free the slot for new characters,
but that means you have start over from scratch on the old character if
you want to play him some more... at least when you turn the radio back
on after making a tight turn you don't have to start the CD at track 1
again.
> If you don't like the options and consider the base model to be
> undesirable because of the lack of those options you don't want to pay
> for, then you don't buy the car (or game).
This is self evident. I've already said I haven't bought EQ2.
But for what its worth, there is a considerable difference between
buying the car without options, and buying the car with the options
included and then having to pay extra to actually use them.
> Analogies are often imperfect and the car purchase one is definitely
> imperfect.
It was better than yours.
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