Lifetime Subscription

[Abriael]

Can we have it? Pretty please?

It works very well both for the developer (that can get a nice bundle of money on the short term from people that often would quit anyway on the long term) and for the customer, that can play all he wants without worrying one bit about monthly fees for the rest of his gaming life.

For those not familiar with lifetime memberships. It's simply a subscription option in which you pay a good chunk of money (normally around $150/300 depending on the game) all at once, and then you're considered subscribed for life. No more worrying about monthly fees.

It's great value for those that decide to go for it and feel that they'll stick with the game for a long time.

[Kirito]

for the quality of this game it would have to $1,200 so I doubt this may happen... especially since one year costs between $120 and $144 already...

[Abriael]

here comes the "don't try anything new please!" brigade.

Lifetime Sub? Not many people can afford a big chuck of change like that.

You'd be *extremely* surprised.

for the quality of this game

It's offered in games that don't really have any less quality (and we don't really know the "quality" of this game until launch anyway, please, let's keep the blind faith out of this discussion, shall we?).

And no. No matter the quality. No game would be worth over 1000 bucks for a lifetime.

it would have to $1,200 so I doubt this may happen... especially since one year costs between $120 and $144 already...

That's the same a year costs on other games, yet they offer the option. There's a lot of difference between getting $150 from a customer and getting double or almost all in a nice initial bundle of cash, that can then be reinvested in expansion/evolution and other games.

[Starlord]

here comes the "don't try anything new please!" brigade.



You'd be *extremely* surprised.

Paying 1k in 1 lump sum? I can buy a New Computer with that kind of money all at once ( or upgrade my PC into more of a beast than it already is)

I rather pay for Yearly subs, 12 months without worrying about paying for it is good enough for me.

[Abriael]

Paying 1k in 1 lump sum?

Where did I suggest 1K? No publisher in its right mind would *ever* ask 1K for a lifetime. The top you can find around is 300 bucks. They'd have to be completely drunk after new years' celebration to ask for 1K.

I rather pay for Yearly subs, 12 months without worrying about paying for it is good enough for me.

Good enough for you doesn't mean good enough for everyone. Not to mention that with "good enough", you don't make the "world class".

[Starlord]

Where did I suggest 1K? No publisher in its right mind would *ever* ask 1K for a lifetime. The top you can find around is 300 bucks.



Good enough for you doesn't mean good enough for everyone. Not to mention that with "good enough", you don't make the "world class".

300 bucks life time? when 120*7=840 bucks? I highly doubt they will do that to lose 400 bucks per person that goes this route. They would lose money in the long run.

[Kirito]

Where did I suggest 1K? No publisher in its right mind would *ever* ask 1K for a lifetime. The top you can find around is 300 bucks.



Good enough for you doesn't mean good enough for everyone. Not to mention that with "good enough", you don't make the "world class".

This may be overly naive but if ffxi lasted 9 years ffxiv could last 20 years... and value of 20 years of playing is easily past 1k...

[syntaxlies]

here comes the "don't try anything new please!" brigade.



You'd be *extremely* surprised.



It's offered in games that don't really have any less quality (and we don't really know the "quality" of this game until launch anyway, please, let's keep the blind faith out of this discussion, shall we?).

And no. No matter the quality. No game would be worth over 1000 bucks for a lifetime.



That's the same a year costs on other games, yet they offer the option. There's a lot of difference between getting $150 from a customer and getting double or almost all in a nice initial bundle of cash, that can then be reinvested in expansion/evolution and other games.

There's nothing new about lifetime subs, most games offer them then go f2p within a year lol

[Kallivis]

There's nothing new about lifetime subs, most games offer them then go f2p within a year lol

Yeah obviously the lifetime subs thing caused that to happen (and not because the game itself sucks).

That pretty much enforces the importance of such an option, because they made more money from the subs before it went F2P.

[Elexia]

here comes the "don't try anything new please!" brigade.

It's not new because MMOs have done it before. Where's the guarantee the game will even last a year? Let alone multiple years to justify it? Will the benefits travel to FFXI when/if ARR shuts down prematurely and invalidating your lifetime sub?

It's not about "trying something new" it's about common sense, it's like SWTOR offering lifetime sub and we seen what happened, it'd cause more problems for SE than help honestly and as said it is usually offered early on/launch only because it boosts income and we already have something similar:

Legacy.

Which no one complained about the removal of or fighting against it. Life time discount for as long as ARR run you're already paying significantly less a year than most people who'll be playing. They're good options if you know the MMO will be around to justify it because people will complain and expect compensation of equal or greater value if/when the game closes out prematurely. So it's more of a gamble than losing out on money because you don't really lose your money if you got the service you paid for then and there unless the game goes kaput shortly after like so many MMOs have.

The only gamble is offering it at all in a time of uncertainty for MMORPGs.