Nostalrius shut down

[mrgoochio]

Some, But is some enough for blizzard to fund servers, staff, etc for it? I'm guessing no. Otherwise actibilizzard would have already been capitalizing off it.

I'm guessing yes. actibilizzard can probably create more jobs and profit financially off of it, but choose not to because fragmenting their player base officially is likely not worth the relative small profits from legacy servers from their point of view.

Originally Posted by Baler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Edit: And one more thing. how many people here actually bought and paid for the titanium client?
Same idea goes for Nost. How many of those people do you think actually bought the client from blizzard?

I'm guessing 99.9% of the people here on p99 has legally paid for EQ at some point in their lives. I'm guessing 90%-95% of the people on Nost have also paid for WoW at some point in their lives as well. Most people, however, most likely did not buy it to play retail, and then buy it again to play a private server. Why would we? We already bought it once and want to play what we bought, not what SOE or Blizzard turned their games into.

[Old_PVP]

Originally Posted by Baler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I would bet most of the people who played on nost would never pay to play in the first place.

It's like the idea that people pirating games hurts the industry. Most of those people would never buy the game in the first place.

The only reason they play it is because it's available. Add a pay wall and Let's see how many of those dearly saddened nost players stick around.

Some, But is some enough for blizzard to fund servers, staff, etc for it? I'm guessing no. Otherwise actibilizzard would have already been capitalizing off it.

(How many of you would pay to play P99 $15 a month? Be honest, not happy-feely.)

Edit: And one more thing. how many people here actually bought and paid for the titanium client?
Same idea goes for Nost. How many of those people do you think actually bought the client from blizzard?

True enough... I will never pay a subscription again and haven't for many years. Free games are the way of the future.

[Tann]

Originally Posted by Old_PVP [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Free games are the way of the future.

Sad but true, and it's not grandpa's free games we get to look forward to. It's cash shops and paid early access and story/gameplay sacrifices in favor of cash shop updates cause $$$

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by Old_PVP [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

True enough... I will never pay a subscription again and haven't for many years. Free games are the way of the future.

GJ youre the reason why we cant have nice things.

[AenorVZ]

Originally Posted by Baler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

(How many of you would pay to play P99 $15 a month? Be honest, not happy-feely.)

Edit: And one more thing. how many people here actually bought and paid for the titanium client?
Same idea goes for Nost. How many of those people do you think actually bought the client from blizzard?

I beta tested Wow and bought the client at launch. Did not sub after the first month expired. So when I played on nost, I played with a client I payed for.

As for the former question, I would at a minium two box and possibly three box at $15 per month to play on a commercially-run P99 server that was not run by the people who run P99.

[Swish]

How about they make their next expansion, whatever it might be, way more difficult and in line with the old vanilla/TBC era?

Fuck pet battles, cash shop vanity shit and ideas that fragment the community (inter-realm queues for instances etc)

[Baler]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How about they make their next expansion, whatever it might be, way more difficult and in line with the old vanilla/TBC era?

Fuck pet battles, cash shop vanity shit and ideas that fragment the community (inter-realm queues for instances etc)

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[Byrjun]

"Free To Play" is an immediate red flag to me and I'd always prefer to pay a subscription if it means no cash shop bullshit.

Am I getting old?

[FoxxHound]

Originally Posted by Byrjun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Free To Play" is an immediate red flag to me and I'd always prefer to pay a subscription if it means no cash shop bullshit.

Am I getting old?

^^ This is how I am. I like pay to play and be on an even field; instead of pay to win.

[Haynar]

Originally Posted by Byrjun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Free To Play" is an immediate red flag to me and I'd always prefer to pay a subscription if it means no cash shop bullshit.

Am I getting old?

I wish they would do away with all the "Free to Play" BS. Nothing is "free". There is always a price. I would rather pay a subscription.