Prone Sultur
Gallente
Galactic Security Union
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Posted - 2006.11.29 10:20:00 -
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 Originally by: Fiyuriy Jhaiden
Hmmm... not a 'free' expansion? How's this for an expansion. And they're paying monthly too! But they have to pay to get the new content as well! There you have it. CCP is giving us the expansion for free, b/c AFAIK there's no increased cost for subs or registering a new account. So we get Revelations I, II and III for the price of our subscription. WoW players get the Burning Crusade for $50 (CAD) and still have to pay their subscription.
I'm pumped about the Vivox integration. For those people who claim to be able to host a 100+ TS server, good for you. Not everybody can do that though. As somebody who was willing to pay for a year's worth of Ventrilo hosting, I have to say that the thought of only paying $10/year for integrated voice chat is really, really appealing. And is going to help my wallet a bit as I don't have the bandwidth to run a 'free' server. I know that there are many people within my corp who are interested in checking out the Vivox as well.
And y'know what you could do before automatically jumping on the hatewagon, folks? Pay for a year ($10!!!!!!), test it out, try it, play with it and if it isn't up your standards, then don't use it anymore and unsubscribe from the service (or however they're going to run it) and go back to your old solution (TS/Vent/whatever). Sure you've paid for a year and that will be down the drain, but as has been figured out (and mentioned previously) it's 80 some cents a month. Literally pocket change. Also, if CCP/Vivox upgrade/make changes to the integrated voice chat later on, you can still check it out and maybe see if it's worth it then.
I'm waiting till this is implemented on TQ before I judge it fully. From there, I'll pay for a year and test it out and then I'll either recommend it or dissuade people from purchasing it. I'm gonna wait and see how it turns out before automatically discounting it.
For what it's worth, I wish it was just included the with the regular subscription price as well. But I am willing to pay for it. Why? Because you don't get something for nothing. Life doesn't work that way as much as I wish it did. 
WoW players get new dungeons and stuff in every patch. Burning Crusade is a little larger than the patches in Eve and thus is an add-on which costs money. The rest (included in patches) brings about the same or more amount of content into WoW and that is for free. If you want to discuss those things, know your reasoning first-hand.
I think both options are great. But since I use Vent and have my own server, I won't use in-game comms. Only if all could use it for free but not as an elitist option.
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