Membership and Subscription Limitations

How do you feel about them

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chillv

chillv

9-Volt must be my video game counterpart.
What do you feel about these in video games. If you don't know what a membership or subcription limitation is, let me explain. It is when they don't allow you to access certain stuff without you paying a fee for a membership or subscription.

I personally hate these and I hate whoever invented them in the first place. Heck, even nintendo is going in on this scam with Flipnote Studio 3D. The worst offenders of this are any MMOs by disney. Mostly MMOs like world of warcraft and club penguin have these bullcrap membership restrictions. Because of this, I have been completely turned off of MMOs. (except for ROBLOX)
 
Well, I've never played video games like these, but these sound totally annoying.

I DID play games that require online to play. THAT was annoying.
 
What, like those MMOs? Or the free MMOs which required membership to do anything important?

Well, I never used them. Basically, I never used anything that cost money. But I get why MMOs need a constant amount of money pouring in, they need to keep the servers up and running constantly. It's not like they just make the game and they can sit back and relax.
 
Purple Yoshi said:
Well, I never used them. Basically, I never used anything that cost money. But I get why MMOs need a constant amount of money pouring in, they need to keep the servers up and running constantly. It's not like they just make the game and they can sit back and relax.
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There are other ways of keeping servers up and running other than resorting to membership and subscriptions
 
You mixed up his quote. It was
The worst offenders of this are any MMOs by disney. Mostly MMOs like world of warcraft and club penguin have these bullcrap membership restrictions.
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Two different sentences.
 
The way he juxtaposed WoW into "MMOs by disney" might have caused some confusion
 
Xbox live is the same thing, pay them money so they can let me play online with friends. It's so ridiculous and yet people pay for it!

Games just aren't like they used to be folks, not only to you pay an up-front cost for the game, but you have to keep paying to keep on playing. Thats a waste.
 
Geno said:
Xbox live is the same thing, pay them money so they can let me play online with friends. It's so ridiculous and yet people pay for it!
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There are benefits for paid Xbox Live compared to Nintendo's free WiFi, though
 
Purple Yoshi said:
What, like those MMOs? Or the free MMOs which required membership to do anything important?

Well, I never used them. Basically, I never used anything that cost money. But I get why MMOs need a constant amount of money pouring in, they need to keep the servers up and running constantly. It's not like they just make the game and they can sit back and relax.
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However, the sandbox music game osu! (even though that's not an MMO) seems to be doing fine with just asking people for donations. I feel if they need money so badly, they could ask them to donate money. Not force them to pay you for something that's not their fault or their problem. People are more generous to those who ask than those who force. (im totally sigging that)