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GuildWars has a monthly fee

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Big_Iron
Big_Iron
Desert Nomad
• #21
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetris L


You're beating a dead horse, and this thread will likely be locked very soon.

Nobody forces you to buy the new campaigns, you can keep playing Prophecies for free, without a monthly payment, if you want to, or if you think the new campaigns aren't worth the money.
QFT....

This topic has been discussed ad nauseam.*



*(Definition of ad nauseam: So as to disgust or nauseate.)
Faith Angelis
Faith Angelis
Frost Gate Guardian
• #22
Hold on, wait, I bought a shirt last year for £4, and I've just put it on and realised that the monthly subscription on my red T-Shirt is is like 33p a month!

*wanders off to have a word with the manager at top shop*

[/irony]

Regardless. WoW = monthly fee; stop paying it and you can't play anymore. GW = No fee; don't buy chapter x and you can still play all chapters <x...
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Elruid
Academy Page
• #23
Ya, uhhuh. I'm paying 13.99USD/month.
But I got the 6 month package though, so it costs less than just subscribing for a single month.
Thanks to it, I will save about ten dollars for the purchase of Chapter 4.
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Dmitry
Academy Page
• #24
as most of the above said you DONT have to pay to keep playing, it is your own choice to buy the expansion(stand-alone upgrades) of the game, your account will NOT be disabled simply because you dont buy the next game
Sekkira
Sekkira
Forge Runner
• #25
If you spread the cost of any game you buy over a monthly basis, OBVIOUSLY it has a monthly fee. All games are pay to play, IDIOTS.
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Spura
Wilds Pathfinder
• #26
Quote:
Originally Posted by KCBeserk
GuildWars is often label'd as an MMORPG withought a monthly fee now this is simply not true. the prices are from the offical in game store and are in US dollars. and the dates are if u picked up each copy on release date wich alot of us have.

April 28, 2005 proph is released for 49.99

April 28, 2006 factions is released for 49.99

October 27, 2006 nightfall is released for 49.99

now the time between proph and factions is exactly one year *easy math yay :P*. so that made proph $4.17 dollars a month if u bought on release date and bought factions on release date.or about $0.14 cents a day not bad at all.

now we got factions wich was released on april the 28th till october the 27 wich is $8.33 dollars a month for factions or $0.27 cents a day.

im not gonna do the math on nightfall simpley cause chapter 4 is not out yet.but it has been said more then a dozen times each chapter will come out in 6 months. so for the majority of us guildwars cost 8 dollars a month. now some of you will have the argument "but i dont have to buy a new chapter to play an old one" wich is true but in each new chapter there are more then enough exclusive content wich improves older chapters. don't shoot the messenger
On the bright side, you might now elegible for that goverment subvention for your study at Academy of Lame Whine and Trolling you've always wanted.
Terra Xin
Terra Xin
Furnace Stoker
• #27
If ever... EVER... anet decides to make this game a monthy fee 'just' because this topic keeps coming up, I'm bringing out all of my guns...

Please stop talking about something that uses poorly manipulated maths. WoW has a monthly fee AND you have to pay for the expansion. The difference here is that they're smart enough Not to make the link between expansions and fees.

Now I feel sorry for other GW players who have to listen to this.
Vilaptca
Vilaptca
Pre-Searing Vanquisher
• #28
Life has a monthly fee.
SilentAssassin
SilentAssassin
Wilds Pathfinder
• #29
there rly are some dumb ppl in the world
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Deleet
Wilds Pathfinder
• #30
Following your logic => Everygame that costs money has a monthly fee.

Which is of course, not true.
Clord
Clord
Wilds Pathfinder
• #31
Quote:
Originally Posted by RTSFirebat
This thread is really going no where.

Also Guildwars is a Competitive/Cooperative Online Role-Playing Game (CORPG), not a MMORPG... why do people not get that?
Because we was advertised to believe it was MMORPG before paying. However I enjoy in those games but once you finish story you use another character to complete storys or stop playing GW if PvP is not what you want only do after it.
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Wtf Its A Monk
Frost Gate Guardian
• #32
Quote:
Originally Posted by KCBeserk
GuildWars is often label'd as an MMORPG withought a monthly fee now this is simply not true. the prices are from the offical in game store and are in US dollars. and the dates are if u picked up each copy on release date wich alot of us have.

April 28, 2005 proph is released for 49.99

April 28, 2006 factions is released for 49.99

October 27, 2006 nightfall is released for 49.99

now the time between proph and factions is exactly one year *easy math yay :P*. so that made proph $4.17 dollars a month if u bought on release date and bought factions on release date.or about $0.14 cents a day not bad at all.

now we got factions wich was released on april the 28th till october the 27 wich is $8.33 dollars a month for factions or $0.27 cents a day.

im not gonna do the math on nightfall simpley cause chapter 4 is not out yet.but it has been said more then a dozen times each chapter will come out in 6 months. so for the majority of us guildwars cost 8 dollars a month. now some of you will have the argument "but i dont have to buy a new chapter to play an old one" wich is true but in each new chapter there are more then enough exclusive content wich improves older chapters. don't shoot the messenger
with all of this said i have on thing to say. YOU DONT HAVE TO BUY THE NEW GAME YOU CAN STILL PLAY THE OLD ONES WITHOUT IT
malevolence
malevolence
Krytan Explorer
• #33
Buying the expansions is up to you...

In prophecies you have the core characters, and if you want only to play with them (and prophecies campaing) there is no montly fee, and never was, I don't think that ANET will charge for monthly fee, ANET is just awesome.
Qual
Qual
Krytan Explorer
• #34
Quote:
Originally Posted by RTSFirebat
This thread is really going no where.

Also Guildwars is a Competitive/Cooperative Online Role-Playing Game (CORPG), not a MMORPG... why do people not get that?
see www.mmorpg.com you will find GW on their game list. I am not saying that GW is a mmorpg, but they do. GG
Two April Mornings
Two April Mornings
No Luck No Time No Money
• #36
It is a way to look at it, but its farfetched.
Guildwars has no monthly fee.
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darrylhaines
Frost Gate Guardian
• #37
Quote:
Originally Posted by Clord
Because we was advertised to believe it was MMORPG before paying. However I enjoy in those games but once you finish story you use another character to complete storys or stop playing GW if PvP is not what you want only do after it.
If it was advertised as a MMORPG it would have also said there is no monthly fees. Just the initial purchase price and then...... nothing.

Otherwise, when I die and god gives me his invoice for my life, I might be a little light in the money department lol
Mercury Angel
Mercury Angel
Avatar of Gwen
• #38
Guild Wars IS pay-to-play subscription-based game... in some regions of the world, as I understand it. There's also an alternative payment plan, I believe, based on that system in place because of it. Considering I simply pay for the single price version, I don't remember much about it, but I do remember the topic coming up on occasion.

I'm not sure if it's monthly, or a packaged hour bundle. I think it's the latter, but it may be both.

*Edit: Note, I'm not willing to stake cash on the above. It's all hearsay, and I can't remember if I've ever seen anything official about any of it, though I'm pretty sure I did on the alternative payment structure for the hour bundles. Hmm. If I could only dig them up ><

As to the argument made in the OP, yes, it IS a gross inaccuracy to call it that. A monthly fee forces you to shell out cash to continue playing even what you already have. On TOP of what you pay for the game itself.

You can play Guild Wars Prophecies from the day of release to... indefinitely without paying anything more. It's completely optional to buy more. (Once again, talking about that specific payment style.)
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Tommy
Jungle Guide
• #39
not all games for paid to play i have never paid a penny for any software in my life except Guildwars i always download them for free from internet. and for those i can't get for free i dont play imao GW worth nothing closed to 10 dollars a month, i wont be buying new chaters all i want from nf is heroes really i plan to make my chars afk in grotto to continue consuming Anet's resources until they no longer making any profit from me no software maker could possibly make a penny out of me!
Clone
Clone
Krytan Explorer
• #40
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetris L


You're beating a dead horse, and this thread will likely be locked very soon.

Nobody forces you to buy the new campaigns, you can keep playing Prophecies for free, without a monthly payment, if you want to, or if you think the new campaigns aren't worth the money.
Indeed. Pay for prophecies and no others. You aren't locked out of the content you own if you don't buy the new ones.