PataHikari
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Vinci said:
Eve costs less then 6 dollars a month?
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Capcom announces online fees for Monster Hunter G Wii
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Eve costs less then 6 dollars a month?
UntoldDreams
Member
Basically this is a monthly fee for a matchmaking lobby?
PataHikari
Banned
UntoldDreams said:
No that's Xbox live.
This one has dedicated servers to play on.
Jaded Alyx
Member
For Christ's sake...tanasten said:Why they need to charge people to play this game? they don't need it on the PSP as that's why it's so succesful! Capcom is bitching us
I'll not pay to play online, so I'll not pay for MH wii as online was the good thing of Monster Hunter.
tag quote please.
SilverLunar
Member
You don't go online on the PSP, it is local multiplayer as far as i know...tanasten said:Why they need to charge people to play this game? they don't need it on the PSP as that's why it's so succesful! Capcom is bitching us
I'll not pay to play online, so I'll not pay for MH wii as online was the good thing of Monster Hunter.
AranhaHunter
Banned
Totobeni said:
I must be honest, I like this business model and it makes me much more likely to buy the game. Also NCSoft has free MMOs don't they? I think Guild Wars does not have monthly fees IIRC.
KeeSomething
Banned
I was thinking the same.abstract alien said:
MarzipaNMOS
Member
Acid08 said:
how about
they like monster hunter
frankie_baby
Member
Acid08 said:
this is the japanesse we are talking about, they'd probably pay $80 for a roll of monster hunter toilet paper if they could
Leatherface
Member
Epic fail this will be.
AKingNamedPaul
I am Homie
Probably.frankie_baby said:
Not that I wouldn't.
Urban Scholar
Member
kiruyama said:
I don't know, I really like me my pseudo stone age/iron age time and wyvern killing period as much as the next guy, but that prospective fees...not so much.
Arpharmd B
Banned
You people and your bitchin.
Phantasy Star on 360 has you pay for a hunters license on top of your annual XBL gold membership IIRC. Nothing compares to that.
Phantasy Star on 360 has you pay for a hunters license on top of your annual XBL gold membership IIRC. Nothing compares to that.
PistolGrip
sex vacation in Guam
this announcement is lol worthy
Commanche Raisin Toast
Member
-if the offline mode isn't fun enough
-if the 14 day trial is fun enough
-only MH3, why pay for a wiimake of an older game?
-if the 14 day trial is fun enough
-only MH3, why pay for a wiimake of an older game?
It's probably a moot point because I think Capcom is generally smart enough to realize a monthly fee for a game like Monster Hunter won't fly in the west (well, assuming they localize it at all), but it really can't be stated enough how ridiculous and stupid it is to charge for it at all. There's just absolutely nothing about the game that is really served by having dedicated servers as opposed to peer-to-peer - not to mention that MHF2 played through Xlink Kai (and probably ad-hoc party) is generally a more lag-free experience than the PS2 version of Monster Hunter ever was.
And yes, it was also retarded when they did it with the PS2 Monster Hunter games in Japan, only marginally less so when they did it with Monster Hunter Frontier, and even worse when Sega did it with various versions of Phantasy Star Online and Universe (there's a reason that the Dreamcast version of PSOv1 was the only entry in those franchises that wasn't a ghost town, despite being maybe the worst in terms of cheating).
There's really no angle to defend a Monster Hunter monthly fee from, unless you count "well, it probably won't be like that when they bring it out here anyway".
And yes, it was also retarded when they did it with the PS2 Monster Hunter games in Japan, only marginally less so when they did it with Monster Hunter Frontier, and even worse when Sega did it with various versions of Phantasy Star Online and Universe (there's a reason that the Dreamcast version of PSOv1 was the only entry in those franchises that wasn't a ghost town, despite being maybe the worst in terms of cheating).
There's really no angle to defend a Monster Hunter monthly fee from, unless you count "well, it probably won't be like that when they bring it out here anyway".
No, they released three expansions and then decided that they wanted to make a sequel instead because of limitations in the engine of the original game. And unless something's changed since I stopped following GW2, the no-fee business model hasn't changed at all. And not to get too tangential (especially since the GW model really only works with PC games), but that business model was way more consumer-friendly than any subscription-based model, basically boiling down to the fact that ArenaNet/NCSoft didn't see a dime unless they managed to produce content that players thought was good enough to pay extra for, and that if they failed to convince a player that the new stuff was good enough, the player wouldn't have to pay anyway just to avoid being locked out of the game that they already did actually like.Sqorgar said:
Suburban Cowboy
Member
They will not charge for online in America. Mark my words.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Nice stealth edit.PistolGrip said:
MikeE21286
Member
wow, well I won't be buying any of the Monster Hunter games for Wii now. I had no idea they were gonna make us pay.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
What does that have to do with anything?GoDLiKe said:
You aren't paying shit to Nintendo, you are paying Capcom - for Capcom's online service and servers - they can have voice chat (presumably), usernames, lobbies, matchmaking, leaderboards, achievements, trophies and any other crap they want in there.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Do you live in Japan? If not, what the hell are you talking about?MikeE21286 said:
Dragona Akehi
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Suburban Cowboy said:
Most likely by not releasing the game outside of Japan.
mentalfloss
Banned
2000 points for three months. That's actually not a bad deal at all.
I may have been making incorrect assumptions as to their motivations. I don't really know anything about Guild Wars 2. But I would think that if their model was working, they would've created more than two real expansions (the third was half assed and existed mainly to bridge GW2). SOE managed to keep EQ going for like a thousand expansions while simultaneously working on EQ2. Why did GW just stop, dead, if it was such an amazing success?Coxswain said:
I agree that it is better for consumers. What the jury is still out on is how well it actually worked for everybody else...
Jaded Alyx said:
The PS2 games had an online fee back when console games had no online infrastructure and publishers are left on their own to set up servers for each game. The monthly fee was understandable since Capcom had to use an external company for online and the monthly fee you pay allowed you to play all Capcom games, including Gundam VS, RE Outbreak and then some more from other publishers. It's similar to paying for XBox Live though with a lot less features.
There's no reason to charge for an online fee in this generation. What's Monster Hunter so different from all the other current gen console games that justifies that fee?
Diablohead
Member
One thing nintendo have done right is allowing subs to be brought with the console currency, I wish xbl did the same thing for psu on the 360 instead of giving over your credit card, which can only be stopped with a phone call to support :/
Not the same game or system but PSO v2 DC in europe was FREE while america had to pay a monthly subSuburban Cowboy said:
For all those sooooo sure about the game being free to play online in the west, do you know at least if MHG is coming here? are you doing it for shit and giggles? or maybe you assure it because of the precedents and actually don't have a clue about the release? Just asking, because if you have any piece of real info you could actually share it instead of playing the mistery man
Tokyo Rain
Member
hah. they almost had my money.
Broadbandito
Member
GDGF said:
I hope, but doubtful. It is a real MMO
Hero of Legend
Member
It depends on what it's going to add to the game, if it's just for playing but you use the Wii default online system (Friends code, etc..) then it's a rip off, if it adds allot of features it will be a less of a rip off (even though $20 for 3 months is allot, I can get 2-3 games on Wii ware with that).