The only thing that isn't $=€ are the timecards and I think some of the older games, not sure.

SC2 costs 60 on battle.net

60Euro = 79$

Thanks to steam for starting this shit....

How on earth should we tell these dumbasses that Dollar is not equal to Euro...?

stranded said:

Fuck yea, now I'm buying virtual money for WOW. xD

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Lol, we lost you.

yes, the site is closed, go home everyone! ::D

Fuck yea, now I'm buying virtual money for WOW. xD

Lol, we lost you.

the maintenance might cost a lot of money but it never will justify the amount of money each player needs to spend every month or so. the producers and developers are making way more money than they actually deserve.. problem is that this stupid flock keeps paying them like it doesn't matter..

in the end.. all those who don't pay monthy fees now will eventually do that because future games will be inspired by idiots playing WoW.

shame, everybody that supports this kind of marketing is dooming the gaming industry

Slava said:

To pay for playing online is a bad habit!   It's a clear message to greedy game developers that gamers are ready to pay. I paid for the game. That's enough. I should not pay for anything else!

 

I am afraid very soon we will pay for playing online fps games, like console boys do

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You can't compare MMO's to normal games. Because MMOs are huge.

Normal games don't have the same amount of content like MMOs have. Beside the development of a MMO never stops. The game keeps growing and become bigger each month. Dragon Age is good exsample because the combat system

it very MMO like, but the content of the game is maybe less than 10% of Age

of Conan and less than 2-3% of WoW.

Also don't forget you don't play a MMO alone on your computer at home with yourself but with thousands in cases like WoW with million of people. This requires a huge amount of hardware for the servers, the bandwidth which cost a lot alone. Know what the trickiest part about maintaining a MMO is? The database. You have to keep track of every character, every item and when, where and why he acquired it. All data must be processed by the server to avoid manipulation.

It's literllay terrabites of data that need to be process and protected form loss in real time to avoid corruption.

Maybe there is clarification need what a MMO acutally is.

I recommend to you the Wikipedia entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.....nline_game

WOW! Thanks for such a thorough explanation! I never played MMO that's why never knew all this details! But i still a little afraid. I remember what was rumored that the idea of (damn forgot that name, hadn't played it since bc2) the mw 2 matchmaking system was inspired by battlenet and WOW success where people were willing to pay for playing online. And it was a first try to develop a net for FPS games where people would pay for playing.

To pay for playing online is a bad habit!   It's a clear message to greedy game developers that gamers are ready to pay. I paid for the game. That's enough. I should not pay for anything else!

 

I am afraid very soon we will pay for playing online fps games, like console boys do

You can't compare MMO's to normal games. Because MMOs are huge.
Normal games don't have the same amount of content like MMOs have. Beside the development of a MMO never stops. The game keeps growing and become bigger each month. Dragon Age is good exsample because the combat system
it very MMO like, but the content of the game is maybe less than 10% of Age
of Conan and less than 2-3% of WoW.

Also don't forget you don't play a MMO alone on your computer at home with yourself but with thousands in cases like WoW with million of people. This requires a huge amount of hardware for the servers, the bandwidth which cost a lot alone. Know what the trickiest part about maintaining a MMO is? The database. You have to keep track of every character, every item and when, where and why he acquired it. All data must be processed by the server to avoid manipulation.

It's literllay terrabites of data that need to be process and protected form loss in real time to avoid corruption.

Maybe there is clarification need what a MMO acutally is.
I recommend to you the Wikipedia entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.....nline_game

I am afraid very soon we will pay for playing online fps games, like console boys do