LOWER MONTHLY FEE?

What you guys think?

Please no hate on me, i don't care but i love to see a loyalty program...

VOTE/ Replay your thoughts!

Maybe some things you can think of before you vote:

Say 200k people bought this game:

They pay for the $15 fee that's 1.5m $$$ per month income for the game

Say they lowered the price to $10 more people would consider buying the game

So then the player base doubles to 400k people that bought this game

all the 400k people pays the $10 a month now there income is 4m $$$ per month

Now say the fee is $5 and the player base triples to 600k people

They all pay the monthly fee

Now the games income is 3m $$$ per month

So in all terms the $10 Seem to be the right price to bring people in and play the monthly.

Bah, won't let me vote... oh well

No offense man, but these types of threads/polls are silly. Id like them to pay me 15 bucks a month to play, but it aint happening. At the end of the day the game exists to make money, if that doesnt happen it goes away.

I have no problem paying for what I'm getting.

I'm actually curious how many more people they would pick up as customers if they lowered the monthly fee a few dollars. Running two accounts, say a husband/wife team, is $30 a month, that's something most people have to think about.

I suspect if they reduced the price they'd actually see more profit. Then again, maybe they want the price high to keep there numbers lower so they can maintain server costs. Still, there's no doubt that a lot of people are not going to play ESO because of the purchase price combined with the monthly sub. Most games are one or the other, and in the age of Humble Bundle, they take those dollars elsewhere.

Pffft, I was paying $15 a month to play EQ1 in 1999 and didn't think that was overly expensive even back then. My $15 bought me a LOT more beer back in those days. Why anyone would complain about it now is a mystery. I'd be lucky to get a burger and a couple of soft drinks with $15 these days.

I humbly disagree, even with purchase cost and a monthly sub the hours of entertainment vs dollars spent blows just about any other activity out of the water.

Same.

15$ a month - if enough people want prime gaming experience, it will work

I would venture to predict a decrease some time down the road once operations are smoother. A strategic move on their part within means, and would encourage some of those who were against 15, who would be more willing to pay maybe 10-12

--edit: Just throwing this out there, that small decrease after small decrease would probably not have as heavy impact as all of the sudden a noticeable 33% decrease.

I'm not sure I like the logic of your poll, I have to pick an answer to your second question in order to vote and I don't agree with any of the options.

I suspect if they reduced the price, they'd switch the focus to cash shop mechanics, so that they could still make a profit, but this time they leave it so just a few players can pay for everyone elses fun.

I don't think this game is going to be hurt by players who are too cheap to not invest. And in cash shops, those that CAN pay, usually end up paying more.

I had to get double Imperial Editions and will be paying double subs, still think its a good price.

-Mongoose

No.

But if only I could buy a lifetime sub...

Exactly. Hell, I smoked like a train for many years. I gave that $5 a day habit up. If I can afford $150 a month to induce a suicidal slow acting poison, I'm making $4.50 a day by substituting a $15 script fee.

i'd love that as well.

After all of this I found another idea.

When you do not want to pay - just switch to F2P game. It is because ESO becomes F2P you will have the same situation as with other F2P games: A game shop that has Pay2Win items.

Do not have a hope that after F2P you will have the same ESO as it is now - it will change and be simply similar to all other F2P, so it will not make difference to You.

It's too late now. The pricing is set for launch anyway.

If the game is worth paying a $15 per month subscription, I'll pay $15 per month. If it isn't worth it, I won't.

15 a month is standard if they want to give us discounts for buying more months at a time so be it. If they did I'd imagine it would look something like this $15/mo $13.99 3/mo $12.99 6mo $11.99/12 month. even if its not IDC i'll buy a year sub if they offer it because I want this game to succeed.

Let's take restaurants as an example:

Take (1)"Ye Olde Club-Membership 5-Star Restaurant", (2)Typical High Price Restaurant, a place like (3)Olive Garden, and (4)McDonald's (but let's make McDonald's only dine IN, no drive thru)...

1- Has a very small group of people, but all act maturely, they do their best to not break rules, etc, the staff operating the place do their best to provide real quality service

*Elite Membership, entry fee, cost of meals plus extra fees, and known for discrimination (If cost of game was 100+ and had 30+ monthly)

2- Has a larger group of people, most act maturely but you get some snooty a-holes that act up, the staff still does its best

*Entry fee sometimes, high cost of food (60 for game, 15 a month)

3- Let's anyone in, mediocre cost of food, some customers are rude to each other and get away with it, staff is like, "Whatever" most of the time, some good ones though

*No entry fees, mediocre cost of food (Free Download and 15 a month, OR 60 for game and 5-10 per month)

4- Anyone gets to eat, crappy food, customers range from people who work to utterly rude teenagers, ghetto crowd plus redneck bumpkins that may even be doing some chaw at the table and spitting in an empty McDonald's cup... and staff doesn't care, they are probably in the back talking on cell phones and getting annoyed that you want to order some time in this century.

*no entry fees, LOW cost of food (30-60 for game, 0 per month)

The difference is, YES you get more people, but of what quality, and will you drive away the people you built the game FOR in the first place? Do we really want 50-100 Dunmer Dual Wielders named various forms of Drizzt running around? What about Breton Sorcerers with grey/white hair + beard named Gandolff, Gondalf, Gahndelf, Dumblydore, Dombldorr, etc? Do we want people joining our groups and looting every chest before we even finish fighting, and then when you complain their response is, "Whatever, you guys svck anyway" and knowing there are 5 million people playing, so this one guy's reputation will NEVER actually get to him and he will still be playing when you get to 50? There are a lot of bad types that ruin games, be careful you do not open the game up TOO much...

They have right to charge what they want. Feel free to make your own company and make PC games and make business.

I am tired of this "lower fees" whining. You do NOT have to pay anything! Just play those free games. 15$ is lower than 12.99€ what we are paying for in Europe

Dreamers wishing the price was lower.. you could make 15 bucks just by saying Hello at the dang door at walmart "exaggeration of course" but 15 bucks a month is pocket change.. I pay rent of 600 a month ontop of utilites being 300 which adds up to 900 a month Plus car insurance which is 220 a month ontop of that 150 a month for car bill which adds up to 370 and then there is Gas money which would be 8 bucks a week so its a total of 1270 a month when I only work 8 hours a day for 6 days a week and I only get payed 9.37 an hour.. Most of the people wanting the game to be Free or lower price is either living with their parents, under-age or they just don't want to spend money at all, they want the game for free. or they just don't work or recieve any income benefits..

Reasonable though I don't think we'd be seeing too much riff-raff at a $10 price point. On reflection though, having a reasonably high barrier to entry early on will allow them to lower prices later and make customers happy rather than having to raise them and be met with fits.

I'd actually prefer seeing various forms of Drizzt, at least then I know some kids read a book once in a while or respected the origins. I'm glad the battle.net fad of Goku's and Clouds has passed us by, sadly there are still ~~**Gamertagbloodspartaoverlorz**~~ running around.

YET AGAIN .. AGENDA PEOPLE..... DLC are $49.99 on all major games every 3 months.... you are paying $15 for a month for 3 months for $45.00. so what is the problem.. are you saying you can't even afford HALO 5... Call of duty??? lol WOW.... Maybe you need to decide what Game you want to play because If having too many games is a issue.. That your problem.. not the systems... you sound like the people that ..want bus stops.. want roads.. want health care.. want a military but don't care to pay a yearly fee.... try that stuff in your own country.. see where it gets you... stop coming to america because we are already broke...

Steam gets more money from a highly discounted game by volumes sold... I'm sure when Zenimax made the whole lan the market was not today's... but now it's too late, they have to stick to the plan and rely on the hardcoes. The hardcoes alone will get them to financial safety. I for one have bought 2 collector's and I'm going to pay sub forboth as long as me and my partner have fun playing.