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PC News by Robert Purchese
Flagship Studios has announced that a subscription to Hellgate: London's prestigious multiplayer mode will cost GBP 6.99 (EUR 9.99) a month.
Forking out will let you found and run guilds, have access to player housing, use in-game emails, and fiddle around with your character using the Internet.
More importantly, it will let you enjoy on-going content patches that will add new character classes, areas, monsters, items and raid content. Even new game modes will be added, such as Roleplay, Hardcore and Player versus Player.
Those of you who don't want to pay the monthly subscription for the full MMO-style package will still be able to play with your friends online. You can join guilds too, as well as trade items and enjoy other community features like integrated voice chat and buddy lists.
Hellgate: London is a first/third-person action role-playing game set in an apocalyptic future where demons romp around unchecked. It features all the sorts of bits and pieces you might expect, like levels, experience, items, events, quests, bundles of customisation, skill trees, and nasty enemies with big teeth that can eat you.
Developer Flagship is made up of staff responsible for the excellent Diablo games, who left high profile jobs at Blizzard to pursue differing interests. The result is this, which has been snaffled up by EA (via Namco) for a 2nd November European launch.
Head over to our Hellgate: London gamepage for all our considerable coverage to date.
Alternatively you can plunge into the depths of the Hellgate: London website for more information.
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rhinoxious
23/08/07 @ 15:43
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My favourite beer is either Kuppers Kolsch or Budvar Dark, both available in Soho for around that price.
Expensive, but nice. |
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why? Its still free, and we're getting a whole lot more than i thought we were getting. I want to do the sub stuff anyway and this might be enough to pull me from wow - and save me £1 a month! :)
I just hate the notion of having stuff split in this way. Yeah, it's only £84 a year (wait, only? That's like 3 or 4 PC games at current online prices, which seems a bit much to me for a non 'true' MMORPG), but I don't like the idea of committing to play xx hours per week to get sensible value. And then I feel hard done by when I know someone else gets more than me because they decide to pay more, and start wondering whether x or y was removed to be sold to subscribers. It's not entirely logical or rational, I realise, but it greatly irks me. |
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Amazing Bryan
23/08/07 @ 15:54
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It must be good if they're expecting people to pay money to play it online. I had no idea it was going to be like this and assumed it was just going to be like Diablo.
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4thVariety
23/08/07 @ 17:36
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So basically it's an overpriced expansion. I pay every month so I will get an additional fraction of content I do not really need and that would be better sold as an expansion.
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TheUnionFrag
23/08/07 @ 20:44
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So either get ripped off in beer or ripped off in virtual london . . .
I choose beer. |
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I choose beer as well... And for us in Poland that price means not two beer, but around 10 LITERS of beer.
It's funny to read this kind of crap after ANet announced 4 million copies of GW sold and explained how a non-subscription-based business model is the future of MMOs and gaming altogether. =) |
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Is it possible just to subscribe for 1 month every year, to bring your game up to date with all the new classes, content etc and then unsubscribe again?
I am really looking forward to this, but won't consider it if content which should really be in the retail release is held off to be released as paying additions. |
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TheUnionFrag
26/08/07 @ 22:31
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Lim-dul is right. Having seriously got back into GW again, ANet has proven that no-subscription models can work. Why should I pay for shitty diablo-esque premium features if I can pay nothing to enjoy the masterpiece that is the Guild Wars series.
Roll on Eye of the North and meh to Hellgate: London. I still choose beer. Ooh - beer and Guild Wars might be fun . . . |
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