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there's a good life, and a spoiled life. when there are millions of people starving around the world, or millions of people on welfare, there exists a little something called excess. when people are working 3 jobs to support their family, people with car collections live in excess.

i doubt blizzard was paying for servers, but they could of easily afforded it. i do know that when i was playing diablo 2 (for 4 years online) there were HUNDREDS, even THOUSANDS of worlds up at any second.

did blizzard's game i listed required constant staffing? no, because they designed the game so people fend for themselves. if you want to know how to beat a boss you can ask the other people. if you have a problem you can go see their technical support staff. blizzard is a gaming genious with their games like diablo, starcraft, warcraft 1-3.

This is irrelevant..
Its simple.. if you play a game that isn't pay by month, then your going to get a quality game that doesnt get updated except for general troubleshooting and tweaking. A game like guildwars is great fun and enough for people who can't afford to pay by month. They shouldn't have to make all games PAy once just because people can't afford them.

The games you pay by month are designed for people who wants Constant updates, faster servers, way more player base, Intricate plots and free expansions to the game constantly.

Their 2 different games completely. You can't compare games like Diablo 2 and City of Heroes.. their completely different.

Just like Guild Wars and WoW are completely different. You probably don't think so, but it's true. Wow is like a complete world and constantly updated and super fast servers. While Guild wars is actually a very linear game thats masked to look like a large world. Of course you can visit all sorts of areas, but the game itself goes in one direction.

So it all depends on what you want.. if you want Quality they both have it.
In my opinion their 2 different kinds of games..

But theirs nothing wrong with charging monthly, especially when the game has constantly new things added to it, new areas, enemies, storyline, items, technical support etc etc..

Games like Guildwars and Diablo 2 and etc.. don't need constant server upgrades because of the way the fighting is designed. In guildwars when you go out and venture into the world where you can be hurt, only your party exists in that area, so only like up to 10 ppl can fight in one area. This keeps latency down since less people in a enclosed area. Except during special PVP battles.

While in WoW you can have literally 100's of people fighting anywhere, and have like half the server fighting off the other half, or doing amazing quests that involve like 50 people.. theirs a big difference in what a pay per month server offers compared to a One payment only.

Honestly, if you dont want to pay, then go play a game where you dont have too. I honestly am not into MMORPG's as much as i used to be. I started City of Heroes.. but the game is repetive.. and its a game I can honestly say isn't worth paying per month, because it is incredibly limited.. but desguises itself a vast, because its so new and original. Right now WoW is really the most impressive MMORPG out their still.. im not into Space games.. way to indepth for me. i dont have time to learn a system as intricate as Eve..

No offense, but people aren't going to not enjoy playing games just because other ppl are starving or have 3 jobs.. as sad as it is to say "its about money", they do not cater to the poor.. if you can't pay to play, then you go play something else.. thats a sad fact.. you can't say "Oh why doesn't that company make it one payment only so that I can play.." ummm because... they want all your money.. thats why. And they know people will give it to them. So if you want to be mad at somebody, blame the millions of people who don't agree with you and pay anyway.


Oh and i forgot to mention. Games like Diablo and diablo 2 have worlds hosted on Client computers not servers.. that doesnt make it "Genius" lol.. it makes it limited.. Diablo 2 generates random maps .. Woohoo.. thats not really an intricate game.. Diablo 2 is nothing compared to an MMORPG.. i wouldnt even call it that.. id simply call it an Online game lol. Even if u have 100 ppl on a Diablo 2 server.. so what? You cant do anything but hack and slash in that game and beat the same places over and over..

No offense, but your just talking off the top of your head.. you haven't research or even looked into any of it. If you played WoW for a couple of months, I don't think you would feel the same. But actually a lot of gamers are incredibly loyal to game types for some stupid reason.. I personally try as many games as i can and keep an open mind to the reasoning behind their creation.