Do i need to pay for this game?

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i signed to the beta and now i cant play cuz i didnt pre-order (probably cost money).
and now i saw some threads and im afraid i need to pay for free...
is it free 2 play?
(im almost sure it is free)

if its free:
i live in israel, when can i play?

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No this game is not free 2 play. It costs about $50 to buy the game and then you have a monthly subscription fee to play it.

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The game is $50, and each month is an additional $15.

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this game is definitely not free to play. It costs $50 for the game, and $15 a month to play.

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This game is not free, and I do not see why it should be.

Next time do a search before making a new thread.


Ice

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yep its free to play. u can download it in 3 years.

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Or $50 for the game and $200 for a Lifetime Subscription. Or $60? for 6 months.

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what?!!!
i liked this game so much and now i need to pay!
and i cant pay cuz my parents disagree....
i played this game, loved it and i am waiting like a week to play again and now i see i need to pay :(
thats so mean :(

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TANSTAAFL, kid. Google it.

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what?!!!
i liked this game so much and now i need to pay!
and i cant pay cuz my parents disagree....
i played this game, loved it and i am waiting like a week to play again and now i see i need to pay :(
thats so mean :(

Yeah! How dare Cryptic want money for all their hard work, what *******s! God!

You are exactly what is wrong with today's youth.

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what?!!!
i liked this game so much and now i need to pay!
and i cant pay cuz my parents disagree....
i played this game, loved it and i am waiting like a week to play again and now i see i need to pay :(
thats so mean :(

Think of it like this. You can download a game demo. But you have to buy the game to play it fully,

This is an MMO. in the same way as Warhammer Online or City of Heroes, or oldies but goodies such as Dark Age of Camelot. Each of those had the beta period like this game did. Each of those games because subscription to play games, like this one has.

Just because there's other free to play games out there, doesn't mean this one will be. On that note i suggest you perhaps try and find a free to play that you enjoy, instead of complaining about this one as it's not going to change because you want to play for free. I'm guessing you're still at school and don't yet understand how 'wages' work for employees.

Free to play games make their money through advertising. Games such as Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online, City of Heroes and Champions Online make their money through subscribers.

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what?!!!
i liked this game so much and now i need to pay!
and i cant pay cuz my parents disagree....
i played this game, loved it and i am waiting like a week to play again and now i see i need to pay :(
thats so mean :(

Unfortunately that's the way things roll with games like this. It would simply be too expensive to run the game on Cryptics end if they didnt ask for a subscription :(. There are plenty of others out there that are Free to play mind.

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You could always sell your parents....

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i signed to the beta and now i cant play cuz i didnt pre-order (probably cost money).
and now i saw some threads and im afraid i need to pay for free...
is it free 2 play?
(im almost sure it is free)

if its free:
i live in israel, when can i play?

Is this a joke? There's NO WAY you checked the forums and someone said it's free to play. :D

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Is this a joke? There's NO WAY you checked the forums and someone said it's free to play. :D

Actually there was some idiot argueing that very thing at the end of open beta. Ignoring any and all evidence to the contrary that was pointed out to them.

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what?!!!
i liked this game so much and now i need to pay!
and i cant pay cuz my parents disagree....
i played this game, loved it and i am waiting like a week to play again and now i see i need to pay :(
thats so mean :(

KKTHXCYABYE

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You could always sell your parents....

you sir, are an unmitigated genius.

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Actually there was some idiot argueing that very thing at the end of open beta. Ignoring any and all evidence to the contrary that was pointed out to them.

He wouldn't be an idiot then, just trolling.

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you sir, are an unmitigated genius.

Why thank you kind sir! :D

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He wouldn't be an idiot then, just trolling.

Isn't troll just another name for idiot. Mainly of the bored kind?

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Isn't troll just another name for idiot. Mainly of the bored kind?

Debatable. There are a lot of clever trolls as the thing itself can be done in many a way.

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:eek: :D

This thread is one of the funniest things I've read all day

:p

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Am I a bad person for chuckling derisively at people who want a game to be F2P when they get their hopes and dreams crushed as they find out it will be P2P?

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Am I a bad person for chuckling derisively at people who want a game to be F2P when they get their hopes and dreams crushed as they find out it will be P2P?


no worse than the rest of us :cool:

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i signed to the beta and now i cant play cuz i didnt pre-order (probably cost money).
and now i saw some threads and im afraid i need to pay for free...
is it free 2 play?
(im almost sure it is free)

if its free:
i live in israel, when can i play?

O_o
No, this is not Runes of Magic (just to mention one). Not everybody must like that model of business. And which is better... ask Blizzard about it. Surely they love theirs.

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People are being surprisingly mean in their replies.

Admittedly, it's a silly question to those of us who have bought the game. But the OP is obviously just some kid. Leave off and give his ignorance the benefit of the doubt.

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People are being surprisingly mean in their replies.

Admittedly, it's a silly question to those of us who have bought the game. But the OP is obviously just some kid. Leave off and give his ignorance the benefit of the doubt.

Well, i for one explained it to him/her, hopefully without it reading 'mean'ly.

<sarcasm mode on>
But given in this day and age 7 yr old kids are brainer with DVD remotes and DS's than grown men in their 30's are, I submit that technically he/she should know better. :D
<sarcasm mode off>

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This post smells like a troll. But in case it is actually genuine, posts like these are why the gene pool needs chlorine.

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http://www.champions-online.com/ Start here and read the pre-order information.


This shows you the price for the box with the retail release final game version..

IT also says First 30 days are included in the price.. There is also a section that shows the price if you sign up for a 6 month and one year subscription..


Cryptic is a California USA Company located in Los Gatos, near San Francisco.. So look at the
Worldtimezone.com for time conversions for any server outages for maintenance..




Open Beta was a free sample of part of the game.. The retail final version is the full files and documents..

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15 bucks a month to play


look at the main page , any time the server will be worked on , means you can play

note the time zone change .

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Yeah! How dare Cryptic want money for all their hard work, what *******s! God!

You are exactly what is wrong with today's youth.

LOL!!!
i dont want money, and i dont want them to pay for me!!!!
im just upset that i waited so much to play and now i discover i cant.......:confused:

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LOL!!!
i dont want money, and i dont want them to pay for me!!!!
im just upset that i waited so much to play and now i discover i cant.......:confused:

What? I didn't say they should pay you.. L2Sarcasm please. In any case, you can play. You just have to pay for it, it's the same with pretty much every other A-List MMORPG and tbh, Cryptic deserve the money.

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all good things in life are never free

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all good things in life are never free

Depends.
I can think of something that is very good and completely free.

:cool:

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Depends.
I can think of something that is very good and completely free.

:cool:
Ahem... Emotions. You pay them with your emotions.
:p

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Ahem... Emotions. You pay them with your emotions.
:p

Hm, true.
And all that chocolate ice cream needed to fill in the empty void those emotions left behind isn't very free either.

:D

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Hm, true.
And all that chocolate ice cream needed to fill in the empty void those emotions left behind isn't very free either.

:D
Word.

So... All good things cost.
(I should know... I spend like way too much money on the bf... But he is worth it... I think)

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That said, I don't think level-locked free acounts are nessicarily a bad thing.

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That said, I don't think level-locked free acounts are nessicarily a bad thing.

Except they'd be used by gold farmers to spam their adverts.

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Well I still didn't figure out what the costs by now will be.

I buy the game for 50$ ... after buying do I have a month free? Because I could also download the Client and take the monthly costs then. I won't buy the game for 50$ just for having a case and a DVD of it.

And afterwards I have to buy 6 months or lifetime? Didn't I hear something about prepaid cards (monthly or two month like WOW)?

I wantet to order it today, but if I haven't anything from buying the game in stores I wouldn't order it!

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Well I still didn't figure out what the costs by now will be.

I buy the game for 50$ ... after buying do I have a month free? Because I could also download the Client and take the monthly costs then. I won't buy the game for 50$ just for having a case and a DVD of it.

You also need an activation key, to create your account. You can't dodge those $50 by "downloading the client". And technically the first 30 days aren't free. They're included in the price of the game :p

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So I buy the game and get 30 days to play! Am I understanding this right?

Afterwards I use prepaid cards or abo to play on. Right?

If I download the client directly and get the abo .. directly ... I have not to pay for the game. Thats what I meant.
Because If I buy the game for 50$ I Pay 50$ for playing 1 month. Or do I have to pay 50$ for 1 month even if I onlys download the client?

... I was on open Beta so the next thing to come to ask but not in here.

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You pay fifty bucks for the game itself, or rather a retail key. You get a free month with it. Afterwards, you get billed for the subscription plan you will have chosen.

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What is "abo"?

I really don't see where all the confusion is coming from.

You *must* purchase the $50 client. It doesn't matter if you walk into a "bricks n' mortar" store, or if you purchase the "digital download" from Direct2Drive (or wherever else might be offering it).

First, shalt thou take out thy wallet. Then shalt thou count to $50, no more, no less. $50 shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be $50. $40 salt thou not count, neither count thou $20, excepting that thou then proceed to $50. $60 is right out. Once the number $50, being the fifth number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy cash towards thy retailer, who being willing in my sight, shall trade it for a Champions Online retail box (or download), complete with retail key.

That all said, the retail package comes with "free" 30 days of game play. The monthly pricing, any "time cards", and the like aren't on the main web page (Really Cryptic? You can't "release" this information ONE DAY before the game is "officially" available to the masses?), so I can't tell you what options you'll have beyond the currently announced 6 month and lifetime subscriptions. I'm sure there is a Dev post somewhere that will have some information, though.

It would not surprise me at all if the game was $14.95 (or something *very close*, but not exactly $15) a month, like *every other* non free to play game that I've ever been in (DDO, which has a F2P *option*, but otherwise is $15 a month -- CoH/CoV, WoW, etc, etc).

Look at it this way -- assuming it is $15 a month to play Champions Online, you're paying $35 for the game and your first month of play at $15 = $50.

Bah -- wish I had today off so I could be home playing... :)

So I buy the game and get 30 days to play! Am I understanding this right?

Afterwards I use prepaid cards or abo to play on. Right?

If I download the client directly and get the abo .. directly ... I have not to pay for the game. Thats what I meant.
Because If I buy the game for 50$ I Pay 50$ for playing 1 month. Or do I have to pay 50$ for 1 month even if I onlys download the client?

... I was on open Beta so the next thing to come to ask but not in here.

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Well I still didn't figure out what the costs by now will be.

I buy the game for 50$ ... after buying do I have a month free? Because I could also download the Client and take the monthly costs then. I won't buy the game for 50$ just for having a case and a DVD of it.

And afterwards I have to buy 6 months or lifetime? Didn't I hear something about prepaid cards (monthly or two month like WOW)?

I wantet to order it today, but if I haven't anything from buying the game in stores I wouldn't order it!



once you buy the game, you have a free month to play, but if it's anything like WoW you have to provide information on your continuing method of payment before you can use that month. You can sign up for a Monthly payment, or other subscription plans. If you don't like the game after your free month, just cancel the subscription plan before it gets used.

Also, Even if you got a subscription plan going now and played the early start, you would still need a retail key to play AFTER the early start. You can get a retail key by buying the game in stores and getting it out of the box or buying it online and getting the key sent to you in an email.

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i signed to the beta and now i cant play cuz i didnt pre-order (probably cost money).
and now i saw some threads and im afraid i need to pay for free...
is it free 2 play?
(im almost sure it is free)

if its free:
i live in israel, when can i play?

http://www.champions-online.com/

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they said they will offer cards soon

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what?!!!
i liked this game so much and now i need to pay!
and i cant pay cuz my parents disagree....
i played this game, loved it and i am waiting like a week to play again and now i see i need to pay :(
thats so mean :(

Mean? Dude, it's an MMO, that's how they work. If you want quality you gotta pay for it.

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the client is there for down load in case you loose your game disc. that is all

its a industry standard for 15 bucks a month and 49.99 for regular ed games.