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By: Extra Slots Implementation: For Your Discussion at Kill Ten Rats

Extra Slots Implementation: For Your Discussion at Kill Ten Rats — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:10:34 +0000

[...] previously contemplated and announced, City of Heroes is selling extra character slots. The official implementation is [...]

By: Actually Selling Slots at Kill Ten Rats

Actually Selling Slots at Kill Ten Rats — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:25:46 +0000

[...] this year, I suggested selling extra character slots like Guild Wars does. City of Heroes will be doing that, presumably in about three [...]

By: Talyn

Talyn — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:29:08 +0000

Guild Wars has been incredibly successful with their micro-transaction system. By default, the game allows 4 character slots for your first campaign, then an additional 2 for each additional campaign you add to your account. $10 gets you another slot. They also sell skill packs, a $5 “game of the year” gear pack, and a brand new “Bonus Mission Pack” with new content and rewards for a few dollars.

I suspect GW2 will make good on GW’s initial concept of no monthly fees then a few bucks for regular content updates rather than the full boxed campaign approach they would up taking for GW1. Imagine content updates the size of a typical LOTRO Book for, I dunno, $10 or $15 maybe? I have no problems with that since I’m not paying a monthly fee. Compare that to EQ2 which charges the monthly fee plus charges for those bonus content (whatever they’re called) addons which I hear no one plays anyway so it isn’t worth the purchase?

By: Zubon

Zubon — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:36:17 +0000

I’m assuming away crippleware. That may not be a good assumption, but I am not going to pay $50 for it, so it is fair for anything I am going to play. Consider as an add-on to existing games like City of Heroes, World of Warcraft, or The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™. Alternately, EVE Online comes with only three character slots, and that is without this option. Sword of the New World may have gone with that idea, since it has four character slots and encourages a large family, but it has no box cost.

By: Jezebeau

Jezebeau — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:45:27 +0000

For the player, this offers convenience and potential exorbitant costs. You pay $50 for the account, which will come with a default of 1-3 character slots once those running the service realize they can get away with this, and must then pay extra to explore the full breadth of gameplay styles. I can’t imagine how far my money’s going to go once I’m suckered into paying subscription fees _and_ piecemeal account upgrades.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:50:35 +0000

I think it can be done more effectively, along with other services f.i. openID option when you will be able to sign your blog posts with your in-game nameS etc. etc. Please don’t forget the necessity to MIGRATE from game to game every now and then…
At least how our team understands what customer needs and wants.