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Is there a monthly fee to play the game?
Yes. After the end of the free month included with the game, you need a subscription in order to continue playing the game. There are three subscription options: a month-to-month package at $14.99 per month, a three-month plan at $13.99 per month, and a six-month plan at $12.99 per month. The subscription fees for the three-month plan and the six-month plan must be paid in full.
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I don't pay $15/mo. I pay $12.99/mo. And if I could pay a yearly amount at $11.99/mo I would. If I was to play the game every DAY once a day for 1 year for 365 days a year, it's not even $0.43 a day. There's no single bargain for entertainment than that. Not even your cable bill hits that price point.
Even if you were to pay the full $15 you're talking $0.49 per day to play the game.
How is that a rip off if you were to just play every day for one single hour of game play?
Since I'm in the middle of spec'ing out a new rig, I'm looking at the cost of what it costs for me to play the game including the hardware and software costs, and quite honestly there are people who spend more on golf clubs and all the greens fees in a year than what I will spend on a good rig and the associated subscription and upfront Blizzard costs.
Overall, I think that the business model is fair and hits that profitability price point. So long as they continue to pump out good content and support as far as hardware is concerned, meaning pushing my own graphics cards and hardware to the limit as new tech comes out, it's in the millions for development costs.
I know someone who is at the a college that pumps out the workers for Blizzard and the like down south and it isn't much different now than it is for the movie industry as far as content and story telling, then you still have to have the technical people to engineer the back end tech to support and scale to the story telling. Make a bad one like Matrix Online and you never get a core of players that make the investment worthwhile.
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