Yes! Oh, thank you dear Lord for answering my prayers by giving us, yet another thread on pricing.
And thou shall be, that pricing threads were all holy and mighty, and thou shalt hold it every 7 days, for the Lord is Holy.
Because most of the polls and surveys I've seen have indicated that either subs or one-time-payment is preferred? Maybe that has something to do with it.
/agree 100%
Don't let facts get in the way of an argument, ever.
There's something i don't get, so please don't get mad at me for asking this.
Why can't it just be pay once and play for free - like the every other TES game? If it's because of the expence of the servers, then how come games like CoD can keep all the servers from their old titles up?
Go ahead and ask.
It can.
The problem is, this type of set up has many "features" that a lot of players don't like. Also, truth be told, historically the F2P and B2P have all been pretty crappy games, if they are MMOs.
While servers are a bit of it, the continued maintenance of the game plays a large part as well, which (To my knowledge) CoD servers do not require a lot of. Also, CoD makes small DLC to keep funding servers, I'm not sure if an reputable MMORPG could get away with such a tactic.
I'm not against buy-once style, but only if it is viable without a cash-shop or any other sort of silly side-tactic of milking money. Seeing as this is not likely, I'm much more hopeful that it uses a subscription payment.