15 bucks for Everquest Unfucking believeable... gotta get rid of one of my accounts now.. which i worked my ass off for!

Haha really? How can they justify the prices going up again after they just did a server merge which should lower some costs for them.

http://eqlive.station.sony.com/community/dev_view.jsp?id=64050

in there eyes the costs have still gone up.

Probably since they lost so many subscribers to other online games that they have to raise the rates just to show some gains nowadays. At least that's my take on it......

so lets gouge out the little players youahve left? Fuck if there was at least ONE game that was fun for more then a week. I would be sending a fuck you to SOny and cancellling my accounts guess igotta wait for LOTR online or The Pirate Game

15 bucks for Everquest Unfucking believeable... gotta get rid of one of my accounts now.. which i worked my ass off for!

Yeah.. because everyone knows when you spend all your free time playing a video game.. (probably at least 60 hours in any given month), it's not worth the nickel or so an hour to keep it going. Here's a clue. Work your ass off for a kiss from a girl. You'll be happier for it. Trust me. Either that, or maybe quit whining on a messageboard or something.

I should make you people pay me for these wonderful posts.

We already pay for every one of your posts in lost braincells.

Hey Dante,

Who the fuck are you to give life advice to anyone.. you who feels so flaccid in reality that you need to invent some lame ass ezboard persona as some "master flamer" to impress a gaggle of retards on the board you created in some lame attempt to re-live your 3rd grade trauma, which obviously was significantly scarring

Seriously.. fucking die. You can justify your use of our oxygen any longer

Oh and Fuck you ********,
Taking out edit is fucking retarded, which is why I know it was your idea.

Just out of curiosity, how the hell does $4 a month break your ass? Or 6? or 8? Jesus. How many acounts do you have anyway?

I cant believe this...but Talid just earned a rep point from me!:eek:

Oh and Fuck you ********,
Taking out edit is fucking retarded, which is why I know it was your idea.

Yeah. They seem to listen to everything I say here. Watch out, or I'll alert them to the useless fucks like yourself, and they'll clean that up too. You really aren't very smart, are you Llearuric?

Dante Dipshit.

******* = Snatcheck.. the self important fuckstick put his name on the filter.

Besides.. can you fucking count? Your name doesnt have 7 letters you silly bastard.

Fuck you ********

blah blah

7 letters
Back to first grade for you. That's not 7.

We covered this before.

S A N C H E C K = ********
S A N C H E K = Sanchek

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Wow. Has anyone ever seen LL this pissed off on this board?

He's pretty much been off his rocker like that since I split that somewhat racist post of his with "Juan". No clue why that set him off, but I think it has to do with one too many tackle to the head back in high school football.

Is less then a penny a day really that expensive for entertainment as cheap as EverQuest? If you can't afford an extra $2 a month, maybe you shouldn't be playing EverQuest at all.

More like $.50 a day, but, ok.

I meant for the increase, not overall.

Either way, I'm still wrong, no clue where I got less than a penny from.

and 2 bucks a month is just over 6 cents a day :P

Im still gonna play, but I think its lame after all this time to change it now. Why now? They are probably making a killing... Are they being greedy?

Are they being greedy?

You do know EverQuest is run by Sony, right?

I'll still play, but when people start paying this much, what's to keep other mmo's from raising their rates? We could be paying 20$ a month or more in the next few years if the developers think they can get away with it...

I'll still play, but when people start paying this much, what's to keep other mmo's from raising their rates? We could be paying 20$ a month or more in the next few years if the developers think they can get away with it...

ehh well....with station pass and advanced features I am paying $23.99 to play EQ2 and EQ1. it's worth it to me though.

Even just inflation from 1999 to 2005 is something like 15-20%. People typically expect raises and bonuses to out pace inflation. Prices go up. It's just one of those things.

Prices go up, raises, bonuses...inflation.

Yeah, they probably paid for all of that out of the constantly expanding customer base. But now...

Hey, maybe we'll see an increase in CS. I know, I crack myself up too.

Back in the day, when I used to hit the gym regularly, it was always a good sign that the place was going under when they started selling lifetime memberships.

One for the road? http://www.sleepisfortheweak.com/lanparty/images/smiles/icon_anal.gif

Possible that the reason SOE is condoning selling items and toons now is that the competition has hit them alot worse than most realize and that they need it to keep their profits up? Just a thought....

Yeah, they probably paid for all of that out of the constantly expanding customer base.
With something the size of EQ, their fixed cost in proportion to a single user is pretty small, but their incremental cost per user stays the same. Whatever they're making per user, their cost (server space, bandwidth, CS personnel, accounting, etc) per user still remains.

Actually, the competition hasn't hurt them as much as a lot of people think. It appears they lost only 90,000 accounts out of 550,000 between September 2004 and March 2005.

While that is a significant loss, it's still under 20%.

http://www.mmogchart.com

Pretty sure they're reporting a lot of all access passes in that EQ1 number.

Actually, the competition hasn't hurt them as much as a lot of people think. It appears they lost only 90,000 accounts out of 550,000 between September 2004 and March 2005.

While that is a significant loss, it's still under 20%.

http://www.mmogchart.com

Before World of Warcraft appeared, the competition was pretty meager. I'd say this is to be expected though, Anarchy Online started charging 12.95 when it first came out, and then Sony followed suit shortly thereafter.

When people continue to pay 14.99$ a month, the competition will raise their prices as well.

Personally 14.99$ a month isn't much but the price of a few Starbucks coffees to me, but for people with multiple accounts I can understand why they would be upset.

Maybe its time to prioritize? Let go of the 500 channel Satellite tv, and be able to afford all your accounts??

I find it hard to believe that people still play Sims Online and Motor City Online :(

I find it hard to believe that people still play Sims Online and Motor City Online :(

I find it hard to believe people played those at all.

Sadly i will admit to buying MCO BUT in my defence I hang around alot of Motor Heads and they thought it would be kool... We were wrong

City of Heroes is starting to flesh out nicely tho...Not for everybody, but it can be fun... :)

will agree.. i reactivate my COH account once in awhile.. i have fun as hell playing a super hero for a month then i cancel for awhile till i wannaplay it again.

I shouldn't have sold my CoH account. It was a nice fun break.

I spend about $40 on high speed internet.
I spend about $40 on Sony subscriptions (one all access, one EQ)
I spend about $10 on premium newsgroup access.

I'll hardly notice the price hike.

the price hike really isnt that big of a deal.. its just when you think about it as.. IM paying a company 30 bucks a month to play a game.. kinda makes ya feel a little ripped off.. at 20 bucks a month i could convince myself that i was saving on the phonesex i would of done but with eq i can get it so much easier on there :eek:

I'm Kidding :(