Price per month?

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Mon Sep 17, 2001 11:26 am

Will Neverwinter Nights ask for a pay per month or is it enough to buy the game?

Looking forward to it!!!

Ps. in NwN, you have to start from level 1 right?

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Sep 17, 2001 11:33 am

Originally posted by Rob-hin:
Will Neverwinter Nights ask for a pay per month or is it enough to buy the game?

It will be free. This is not to say some sites might charge.

Originally posted by Rob-hin:
Ps. in NwN, you have to start from level 1 right?

Yes you will start from level one.

Rhino · Post by **Rhino** » Mon Sep 17, 2001 11:51 am

You buy the game off the shelf, and then play until you're sick of it

There is no monthly fee, and it will be very difficult for sites to charge a fee to play on their servers. Illegal, in fact.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Mon Sep 17, 2001 12:47 pm

As Rhino said, it is in the licens agreement from NwN developers/publishers that people must not use the game for financial gains, so to speak.
So people must not charge for playing the game, for downloading modules etc.
So unless the team behind NwN changes position on this, it will not be legal to charge for anything connected to NwN

CM · Post by CM » Mon Sep 17, 2001 3:23 pm

I hope they don't charge./
Otherwise i won't be able to play.
No credit card

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Sep 17, 2001 3:44 pm

Originally posted by Xandax:
As Rhino said, it is in the licens agreement from NwN developers/publishers that people must not use the game for financial gains, so to speak.
So people must not charge for playing the game, for downloading modules etc.
So unless the team behind NwN changes position on this, it will not be legal to charge for anything connected to NwN

I agree, but times are changing.

Look at Gamebanshee for example. The ads were not/( they might be now) paying to cover the site. Paying is on the way in IMHO.

I don't want to see it happen, but something will have to be done.

This will lead to more and more sites....they might not call it paying to play, but this is what it will be.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Mon Sep 17, 2001 9:39 pm

Originally posted by Weasel:
I agree, but times are changing. Look at Gamebanshee for example. The ads were not/( they might be now) paying to cover the site. Paying is on the way in IMHO. I don't want to see it happen, but something will have to be done.

This will lead to more and more sites....they might not call it paying to play, but this is what it will be.

Yes - the sites might want to get paid, but unless NwN team changes position on this, it will not be legal to do so, and why should the NwN team change their minds - they get their money from the game.

The idea behind NwN was that people could adventure together as in PnP-groups.
That some DM/GMs wanted to create a persitant world, really has nothing to do with the game per se.
Plus one must remember that here it is not one person covering all the expences - and that anybody with a decent connection actually can place his computer as a sever for gaming - it is not like ei. paying for a domain and traffic via a webhotel

Classic · Post by **Classic** » Mon Sep 17, 2001 11:05 pm

The guys from NWN are probably gonna spit out some add-ons (new tiles, new monsters, new adventures) anyway, so they should have their #¤# covered on the money side.

Rhino · Post by **Rhino** » Tue Sep 18, 2001 8:14 am

I'll just add in that Argyle is not currently a pay-to-play world, and it never will be. Everything we use for the world - servers, network, time - is already owned by us, or will be purchased by us, and we are in no way looking to have the players pay for even a penny of it.

That way, if it goes belly-up, no-one will be demanding a refund

CM · Post by CM » Tue Sep 18, 2001 1:18 pm

Originally posted by Rhino:
I'll just add in that Argyle is not currently a pay-to-play world, and it never will be. Everything we use for the world - servers, network, time - is already owned by us, or will be purchased by us, and we are in no way looking to have the players pay for even a penny of it.

I could Kiss you!!

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Tue Sep 18, 2001 3:22 pm

@Fas: I wouldn't. His Teke birds might get mad!

Garcia · Post by **Garcia** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 8:49 pm

Originally posted by Fas:
I hope they don't charge./
Otherwise i won't be able to play.
No credit card

you can have mine and everything that comes with it please feel free to take it

you have just paied 50 $ and then you have to pay an additional monthly amoung (+the price of using the internet and investing in new cool hardware to optimise the 3D envirement

)

most online games are not as expensive (IMO) and come with 1-3 month for free. it like a pusher first it is free AND THEN!

oh and by the way what does this mean that the relase date is now Q2 2001 ? i thought that it was first in the year 2002
[url="http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/features/0,12059,2657047,00.html"]here[/url] you can see it.

mikeheitz · Post by **mikeheitz** » Fri Sep 21, 2001 6:18 am

Howdy Fellas!

I am glad to hear that it will be free to play. That is one thing I don't get into is paying to play, especially when I already have shelled out $50 for the game, $40-50 per month for DSL, etc...

GrimReaper · Post by **GrimReaper** » Wed Sep 26, 2001 5:14 pm

You don't know how glad I am to hear that it's free to play. You complain with your $40 a month for DSL, try moving to the Cayman Islands. DSL here is about 150 US dollars a month (and that's after installation charges which are upwards of $300 US). Needless to say, I don't have DSL, so I run on a 56k (which goes at about 44k), and that's about $45 US for 30 hours and after that it's something like $2 US an hour. Point is, I'm overjoyous that NWN is free to play.

Garcia · Post by **Garcia** » Wed Sep 26, 2001 11:52 pm

Originally posted by GrimReaper:
I run on a 56k (which goes at about 44k

I feel your pain

Gano · Post by **Gano** » Sun Oct 14, 2001 3:13 pm

I think it's going to be something like Vampire: The Masquerade-redemption's internet play w/o the crashes, bugs amd lag but who really knows?

Garcia · Post by **Garcia** » Sun Oct 14, 2001 11:20 pm

It's gonna be like BG2 there will be no monthly fee. lagging and crashing depends on the server and the connection (mental memo: damn I better get me ADSL....and fast)

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Oct 14, 2001 11:47 pm

Well NwN should be more kind to multiplay that BG2 ever was.
They still maintain that K56 modem should be able to run multiplaying games, without much difficulty (hmmm - do we buy that

) and even host small modules (ei. 4 players).

It would be nice to see some progress and updated facts though, when they get to the optimising part.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Mon Oct 15, 2001 12:41 am

Has anyone ever played Everquest on a 56k modem, considering that it's similar to NWN (graphics wise anyway).

Reason is that I've been planning to upgrade my modem, but never really needed a reason. If the frame rate may be affected by online games, then maybe it's time for a faster modem.

Garcia · Post by **Garcia** » Mon Oct 15, 2001 3:01 am

what modem do you have now?