RPG in a living sandbox world?
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£10 a month is hardly nothing is it, £0 a month is nothingit's an outlay of £120 a year to play one game, it would take a damn special game for me to pay that.
And you'll save an awful lot more from buying every 'new release' out there because you don't have enough time to play your mmorpg
Plenty of people out there spend 4 x £20 a month on new games yet baulk at £10 a month for 1 persistant world game, with generally a ton more game to get through.
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That's because most people don't want to miss out on the big releases so that £10 a month is on top of the other games, it can't be a replacement.
The appeal of mmos is the fact the game never ends. You play to progress or you play to just have fun. The game isnt totally linear and the community is huge and content is always being updated. At the end of it you are paying for a service.
A game you buy from the store you play, complete it and thats it. It may have multiplayer but then if its pc based your paying for dedicated servers/ventrilo etc but if its a console game your paying for your subscription sure ps3 is free but the service is no where near as good as xbox.
£10 a month is nothing. It takes the average person 1 hour to earn that, if you think its a lot you are one tight lazy *******
What i do is play my mmo, wait untill the single player games are 10£ each and then buy 5 of them for £50 and then i go back to my mmo. Games im really anticipating i buy straight away of course.
A game you buy from the store you play, complete it and thats it. It may have multiplayer but then if its pc based your paying for dedicated servers/ventrilo etc but if its a console game your paying for your subscription sure ps3 is free but the service is no where near as good as xbox.
£10 a month is nothing. It takes the average person 1 hour to earn that, if you think its a lot you are one tight lazy *******
What i do is play my mmo, wait untill the single player games are 10£ each and then buy 5 of them for £50 and then i go back to my mmo. Games im really anticipating i buy straight away of course.
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Shrug, 99% of new releases aren't worth playing. I generally play, if not complete, a new game a fairly small amount of actual played time compared to what I'd get for £10 and a month of play on an MMO.
Oh ffs go and actually read the thread!
I must admit that I am sick and tired of spending £30-£35 on a game on a Friday and finding that I have completed it by Sunday. I may be looking back with rose tinted glasses, but games seem to be getting shorter and shorter to me. They look better, but seem to be over 8 hours after starting.
All depends what people want to spend their money on I suppose. Some will truly feel that £10 a month is too expensive. Others will decide that they spend that much on 1 pizza or 1 takeaway a month, or one trip to the cinema for 2.5 hours and decide that the same expenditure for 100 hours (abitrary figure) of entertainment a month is fair enough.
Different strokes for different folks as they say.
As for the OP...you say you really liked KOTOR...so I would have recommended that you consider getting involved in the build up to the new KOTOR MMO from Bioware...but..you said no MMOs..so thats out the window. Pity , as it probably would have fulfilled what you were looking for and you have a proven track record of liking the series.
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Have you looked at Mortal Online?
It's being branded Oblivion + Ultima Online.
You can do pretty much anything and craft over 300 different swords, 300 different axes and so on.
FO3 is the only decent one thats been out recently. Rather enjoy it and still not completed it. Would like more of that i guess. I didnt get on with the old fo2 etc there badly dated when i played em. Also yeah FO3 is good but its on the oblivion engine which i duno just dont like for some reason. So a simlar game but not by bethesda. Plus i hate bethesda for what they pulled with legacy i.e making it so weak and appeal to mass market instead of true trekkers i.e we want a sim like sfa or ka. 
Not really wanting to do crafting to make a gazzilion diff weapons that are more or less the same.
Plus i hate bethesda for what they pulled with legacy i.e making it so weak and appeal to mass market instead of true trekkers i.e we want a sim like sfa or ka. Not really wanting to do crafting to make a gazzilion diff weapons that are more or less the same.
Was using it as an example.
You can raid cities, build houses, murder people and loot them, raid dungeons and other stuff, should check it out.
Last time i checked there are a lot of people who don't earn no where near that amount. Thats why there is a minimum wage is almost half that.
Surely you jest?
Wurm Online? Ive not played it myself (want to, no time though), but it looks interesting, basically an open world where your free to do what you want, ie walk into a random forest cut down trees to get logs to make into a hut, use some of the wood you got to make a fire to cook the animal meat that you hunted earlier and so forth. There are free/premium accounts though i dont really know much of the differences in them.
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