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Would you pay for an EQ2 expansion that just upgraded the Game/Graphics Engine?
Ahnlak's response to yesterdays QOTD really got me thinking about this.
Part of me wants to say Yes, just so that they would invest the time and resources into it and do it well. The other half of me says no, that they should be incrementally added to the game for free because it is more inline with maintenance instead of new content.
What are you guys thoughts?
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I'm a bit of a fanatic for eye candy so I'd happily pay out for a game engine upgrade even if it meant I was just getting it earlier then others as a sort of pay service, but only as long as it was significant, I think it could be a good way to get revenue too beta'ing out such an upgrade on people.
I guess it would sell actually on its own as an expansion, but not for the whole player base.
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Lomax wrote:I'm a bit of a fanatic for eye candy so I'd happily pay out for a game engine upgrade even if it meant I was just getting it earlier then others as a sort of pay service, but only as long as it was significant, I think it could be a good way to get revenue too beta'ing out such an upgrade on people.
I guess it would sell actually on its own as an expansion, but not for the whole player base. I belive it was Eve who had multiple graphics clients running in tandem and would allow the player base to choose which one (and level of graphics) they wanted when they played. Your idea of an early service/pay service is interesting. What if SOE were to allow people to download it for free, but then they charged an extra $2 a month to use it?
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I probably would, but I don't think enough of the player base would; more than that, I'm not sure how easy it would be to manage from SOE's point of view - they would presumably have to keep their server code able to talk to old and new clients, which would be more of a headache that it was worth. I'm trying to remember how they did it in EQ1 - I _think_ that they brought in the engine revamps at the same time as major expansions, but without requiring that you actually bought the expansion. That way they hit the server side at the same time as the expansion without forcing everyone to buy it. I think it's a mistake to view it as a revenue generator; it's not. It's a way of keeping the game a serious contender. If EQ1 was still using the same old engine they started with, it would have shut down 5 years ago.
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Cyanbane wrote:[What if SOE were to allow people to download it for free, but then they charged an extra $2 a month to use it? If it was a decent, multi-core, GPU-heavy client that played smoothly two-boxing at max detail, 1680x1050? Yes, in a heartbeat!
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