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Free or not?
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2002 5:01 am
by Xyx
GB: Is there any new information on how the Official Vault will be maintained? With your recent publisher changes, do you still intend to make the official servers free of charge?
Greg: We’ve been spending a significant amount of time in the last few weeks planning out how our community site is going to work. In short, it’s going to be very impressive. We are creating a location that all players of Neverwinter Nights will gather and exchange information. We’ll have more information on this as it develops.
Is that a "yes" or a "no"!?
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2002 7:29 am
by Tamerlane
First of all, whats the purpose of the Free Vault, considering that Bioware are not supporting an actual on-line world.
And secondly the fact that we may have to pay for something will greatly impact on whether I get the game or not.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2002 3:47 pm
by Nightmare
If I do have to pay on a monthly basis for it, I will flat out not buy it.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2002 5:01 pm
by Xandax
I hope (think) what they are talking about is not a possible play-2-play community - but rather the official vault-community.
But even if that went "to pay" for - it would still be a big set back for NwN and it would find it harder to compete with DAoC and the "free games".
This is once again the patented: We'll have to wait and see - answer (hmm - getting tired of that one
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2002 5:10 pm
by Rail
Originally posted by Xandax
This is once again the patented: We'll have to wait and see - answer (hmm - getting tired of that one )
We're past "tired" of that one..., but it's sooooo useful these days!
I would be very shocked if they made such a drastic change to their marketing plans at this point. It has always been free to play NWN and that was one of their big selling points. I doubt they'll change that at all. They're as likely to make it with the infininty engine as they are to switch it to pay-to-play, IMO.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2002 12:13 am
by Cyrus
Well I think Blizzard proved that a company doesn't need to leech money off us per month, look at Battlenet, it's huge, must require ****loads of Space and its absolutly free!
If NwN turns Pay per month I'd say they'd lose out on at LEAST 60% of the people who were planning on getting the game
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 5:01 am
by Vicsun
Originally posted by Rail
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It has always been free to play NWN and that was one of their big selling points. I doubt they'll change that at all. They're as likely to make it with the infininty engine as they are to switch it to pay-to-play, IMO.
I seem to not be getting something
. NWN is not out yet right? If that's right, what do you mean by "always been free to play NWN"?
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 10:33 am
by Nippy