6.2...thats it?

[Tlamila]

Oh so the whole argumenet boils down to "I wanna play an MMO only 1 month a year" which....
1- is not how MMOs work
2- if everybody was like you they'd have failed financially 9 years ago

MMOs give you content in a way to keep you playing all year around and always subbed/logging (yes, mmos without a sub do the same, they even have login rewards to keep you logging every single day). If you wanna burn huge amounts of content all at once and then leave, maybe offline games are more your thing.

[VelKallor]

Oh so the whole argumenet boils down to "I wanna play an MMO only 1 month a year" which....
1- is not how MMOs work
2- if everybody was like you they'd have failed financially 9 years ago

If you wanna burn huge amounts of content all at once and then leave, maybe offline games are more your thing.

YoshiP begs to differ.

Yoshida "It's alright not to play it everyday. Since it's just a game, you can stop forcing yourself if it's hard on you to keep that up. Rather, it'll just pile up unnecessary stress if you limit yourself into playing just that one game since there are so many other games out there. So, do come back and play it to your heart's content when the major patch kicks in, then stop it to play other games before you got burnt out, and then come back for another major patch. This will actually make me happier, and in the end, I think this is the best solution I can answer for keeping your motivation up for the game."

[Reinha]

YoshiP begs to differ.

You can sub once per major patch like Yoshi-P suggests even though some things are released in 6.25. Just do it in 6.3, it's side content anyways. They are not going to design things to be as convenient as possible for people who only sub for 3 months out of a year.

[Tlamila]

YoshiP begs to differ.

Oh of course, people keep bringing up that quote for whatever
Yoshi-P never said:we're only gonna do an update a year, with all the content dumped at once, so you only need to play once a year. Content patches are made so to keep people engaged and spread the content out. Housing timers also make it so that people stay subbed.
Otherwise they could just sell expansions, put the whole expansion there without doing any other patch, and make people only play 1 month every few years and done. Lovely, eh?
Taking breaks is very different from asking the game to drop all content at once instead of requiring you to be subbed for more thna one month at a time.

if your MMO is WoW this might hold true with all the dailies and weeklies. in this game it's pretty casual and you could probably do play in periods and still not really fall behind that much to nolifers.

You completely missed the point.

[Sotaris]

Oh so the whole argumenet boils down to "I wanna play an MMO only 1 month a year" which....
1- is not how MMOs work
2- if everybody was like you they'd have failed financially 9 years ago

MMOs give you content in a way to keep you playing all year around and always subbed/logging (yes, mmos without a sub do the same, they even have login rewards to keep you logging every single day). If you wanna burn huge amounts of content all at once and then leave, maybe offline games are more your thing.

if your MMO is WoW this might hold true with all the dailies and weeklies. in this game it's pretty casual and you could probably do play in periods and still not really fall behind that much to nolifers.

[Raoabolic]

(yes, mmos without a sub do the same, they even have login rewards to keep you logging every single day). If you wanna burn huge amounts of content all at once and then leave, maybe offline games are more your thing.

This may be a hot take but when did people find daily log in bs acceptable in a MMO where you pay monthly? Was this after corporations found out they can get away with the cash shop?

[Tlamila]

This may be a hot take but when did people find daily log in bs acceptable in a MMO where you pay monthly? Was this after corporations found out they can get away with the cash shop?

Wait, what sub games do login rewards? I was just talking about the free ones.
But then I think the only sub-based mmos left are FFXIV and WoW?

[Raoabolic]

Wait, what sub games do login rewards? I was just talking about the free ones.
But then I think the only sub-based mmos left are FFXIV and WoW?

There is XI and their log in rewards. Don't want to miss that exclusive trust that is only available this month! That said, I would also count dailies/weeklies as log in rewards since if you don't log in that day or week then you lose tokens/gear/exp since you didn't do your daily/weekly tasks. :/

I mean WoW:The Burning Crusade had daily quests that served as dungeon bonuses to give people incentive to log in every day and that was over a decade ago. Sooooo maybe this is not something new?

Yeah, and there was a sizeable amount of people calling it out for what it was. Guess what, they got drowned out until that sort of system became synonymous with MMOs. It was like horse armor, you had people who saw the writing on the wall but for one person that saw where this sort of trend would lead there were 20 more going "it's only 5 dollar bro, what are you? Poor?". Not like I can suddenly convince people that a 10+ year trend is bad. lol

[SnowVix]

Wait, what sub games do login rewards? I was just talking about the free ones.
But then I think the only sub-based mmos left are FFXIV and WoW?

SWTOR is freemium, but since endgame pretty much requires a sub, i'm going to count it as a sub game, and it does have a daily login reward program that's pretty much a carbon copy of mobile game ones

[Y2K21]

Wait, what sub games do login rewards? I was just talking about the free ones.
But then I think the only sub-based mmos left are FFXIV and WoW?

Elder Scrolls Online does daily log in rewards and has an optional sub if you dont want to outright buy expacs.