MMOG Subscription Model Changes

Blue's News has details on changes to popular MMOG subscription plans. Star Wars Galaxies has been folded into the Sony Online Station pass, which now allows gamers to pay one fee for all of Sony's Online offerings (EQ, EQII, PS, SWG, and the Station Games). In related news, the folks behind Anarchy Online also announced today that they're extending their subscriptionless service plan out until early 2006. Good news for folks wanting to try some new games.

No there just following Microsoft example

[Anonymous Coward]

Why make people create new account and pay you multiple times for the same service. This way they make it up in selling multiple games. Just look buy 4 games at $50 a piece , plus one subscription is more money.

Bundled subscriptions feel like a waste of money

[Mofo196]

Am I the only one who has trouble focusing on more than one MMORPG at a time? With a bundled subscription, you not only are paying for each game (with expansions for it to be worth anything) and then an elevated fee to basically ignore the other games.

I tried to do Planetside and Everqest at the same time and it just didn't work for me. I felt I was being spread too thin.

I suppose the only way this could work is if you went in on a subscription with some friends who all play a different game. I would imagine that SONY has some kind of safeguard against this though. It almost certainly violates the EULA.

I would rather pay $14 a month to play one game than $24 a month to ignore 3 others.

Re:I don't get it

[xTown]

I was wondering this, too, but it looks like the Station Access thing is separate--in other words, if all you want is SWG, you just pay for SWG at the SWG rate.