The internets most quoted villain, Mark Jacobs, had this to say in an interview:
I think his message was ‘oh look at these people they’ve come back and they’re not playing WAR’. You’d have to ask him, but certainly that seemed to be the way he was coming across and I find that kind of funny. I play multiple MMOs… the idea that you only play one is really kind of silly.
Hey bud, that only works when you don’t have standard $15.00/month MMO subscriptions. There’s a reason SOE’s Station Pass works out to be less than $5.00 per game. Aside from a hardcore minority, people won’t pay full price for more than one MMO. If you wanted to support the booming (boomed?) casual gaming market and take a slice of that pie, you should set your price point somewhere that allows people to taste your wine along with their cheese.
Not everyone has industry/press subscriptions to their favorite games. Most people actually have to make a choice on what game they play, especially when they have families that all play the game. Newsflash: getting Average Joe to pay $15/month is a challenge in itself.
