Why not pay every month to play COD!

[jg27_mc]

Originally Posted by Osprey

No Farber I think he is saying that they need cash in order to run and continue to make content.

One thing seriously overlooked here is the detail in the models today, not only graphically but behaviorally too. The point is they all take way more man hours to make and that means higher costs - but there aren't more people buying the game and relative spending power has actually dropped in the past 10 years. Everyone here wanting sequels and free patches with content is dreaming if they think they'll get the 200+ aircraft which the first series ended up with. You have to face up to the fact that you have to pay or development stops. The problem I have is that I see people complaining about how they spent £2000 on a supercomputer and somehow see it as 1C's job to deliver something worthy of it - so the failure of a £40 game is the tipping point for them - they think they have paid enough. If you join a golf club the membership fee and quality of course has no bearing on the cost of your golf clubs, bag, balls and shoes!

When you add it up £40 for a game is remarkably cheap for the hours of entertainment = you don't get that in any other hobby I know of. I think there needs to be more to secure the longevity of the series this time, DLC is the only thing I can think of right now which avoids the truly awful subscription. Just because 777 have lost sight of producing a testament to the Great War air fighting it doesn't mean that 1C have to.

If all else fails let the modders make it

+1

[Triggaaar]

I don't pay monthly for any game. I also don't want to pay per plane, otherwise when you're online, everyone has to have paid for every plane, or you'll be limited to planes others have paid for. I'd rather CoD followed the original IL2 model.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

I also don't want to pay per plane, otherwise when you're online, everyone has to have paid for every plane, or you'll be limited to planes others have paid for.

I can not speak for all games.. but that is not true for RoF

When RoF comes out with new plane for you to buy (DLC) they also come out with a patch.. That patch contains all the 3D art for that new plane(s)..

And everyone that plays RoF has to dl the new patch to play online..

So everyone has access to the 3D art of the new plane.. By doing this everyone who flys online will be able to 'see' (3D external art) this new plane when one flys by.. But only the people who pay for the new plane get to fly it

[Matt255]

Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

I can not speak for all games.. but that is not true for RoF

When RoF comes out with new plane for you to buy (DLC) they also come out with a patch.. That patch contains all the 3D art for that new plane(s)..

And everyone that plays RoF has to dl the new patch to play online..

So everyone has access to the 3D art of the new plane.. By doing this everyone who flys online will be able to 'see' (3D external art) this new plane when one flys by.. But only the people who pay for the new plane get to fly it

Even though i do appreciate the ROF DLC method, because it doesn't force you directly to buy anything other than the main game (which goes for like 20 € or so, not sure, that's pretty much what i paid back in 2009) and you get big updates for free, it can very well happen that you HAVE TO buy a plane to play online. Overall MP numbers are not impressive, so people are usually playing on one, maybe two servers. And if that server runs a mission with a planeset where you don't own any of the avaliable planetypes, you can either join as a gunner (because you can do that without owning the plane), play singleplayer instead or just quit.

So in the long-run, if you're only interested in MP, you'll need to buy atleast a few of the planes, to be able to play regularly. If you do that during a sale, a single-seater costs like 3 € or so, so it's not that much, especially not for the quality of the planes.

But overall MP players are more "screwed" (also because you need to buy "field-mods" for some planes to get a simple gunsight...) than SP player with that system, which is probably the reason why MP numbers are lower than they could be.

Anyway, i own all planes in ROF and thus have probably spend 170 € or so (can't say for sure), not because i fly all those, but to support the devs. But it was definately worth the money either way.

I would be willing to support the devs of CloD in the same or similar way. If they would support it properly (which simple hasn't been the case this year, except for the sound update, mostly done by a ROF team member) and don't just skip it and work on the next, because then i should've not spend any money in the first place, but waited for the second version. And, even if many here can't believe it, some people WERE looking forward to a up-to-date sim featuring the BoB and don't want to fight around Moscow. So even if many of the new announced features (most of those have been announced for CloD btw ) will make it into CloD aswell, i'm pretty sure the majority of the online community will just switch to BoM instead.