1 vs 100 (XBL)

[GSW]

Re: 1 vs 100 (XBL)

i tihnk it would be a little ridiculous to charge people for thsi game considering that you more then liekly wont be part of the mob, or the one.

[Miles_Yuhas]

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i tihnk it would be a little ridiculous to charge people for thsi game considering that you more then liekly wont be part of the mob, or the one.

I agree, if this is true I doubt that I'll be playing this when the beta is over.

[Brandwin]

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If they charge, I probably won't play much either. I guess it depends on how much and if it's monthly, yearly, every show or what.

[55]

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I'm going to try this out tonight for the first time. I set a reminder for the 7:30 pm EST show tonight. Do I have to download anything before playing? If so, where do I go to do it because I cannot find it for the life of me.

[55]

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I keep getting a "can't download" message every time I set a reminder. Strange...

[bkfount]

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probably because Live is messed up in a few places since the downtime.

[55]

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Yeah, even on the XBL forums all sorts of people are having problems downloading it so the problem is on their end.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

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i tihnk it would be a little ridiculous to charge people for thsi game considering that you more then liekly wont be part of the mob, or the one.

I agree, if this is true I doubt that I'll be playing this when the beta is over.

If they charge, I probably won't play much either. I guess it depends on how much and if it's monthly, yearly, every show or what.

Depends on how much it costs for me. To me, it would make sense to do this free for Gold accounts and charge for Silver's who want to play it. Oh well...if they charge and nobody plays, they'll realize the error of their ways.

[ExtremeGamer]

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I agree with TJ, and even once heard this rumor. Gold will still be free, but silver can buy a season pass and play the game just like Gold does. It's their way of trying to get more people into the game, and if you just want to play this game and nothing else really on Live, it's cheaper than a Gold sub.

[mgoblue]

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I agree with TJ, and even once heard this rumor. Gold will still be free, but silver can buy a season pass and play the game just like Gold does. It's their way of trying to get more people into the game, and if you just want to play this game and nothing else really on Live, it's cheaper than a Gold sub.

I agree with you both. I don't think they'd have a massive open public beta if it was going to cost gold members money. I could see them charging 10 bucks or something to silver members who only want to play this yearly. Seeing as how it's so advertiser driven, they want more people playing and it'd be dumb to cut your players down by a ton by charging a fee.

They'd be lucky to get 10k people if you have to pay IMO. Maybe not that low, but they'd see a drastic cut in numbers.

[bkfount]

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I agree with you both. I don't think they'd have a massive open public beta if it was going to cost gold members money. I could see them charging 10 bucks or something to silver members who only want to play this yearly. Seeing as how it's so advertiser driven, they want more people playing and it'd be dumb to cut your players down by a ton by charging a fee.

They'd be lucky to get 10k people if you have to pay IMO. Maybe not that low, but they'd see a drastic cut in numbers.

A season will be 13 weeks. So they get people to pay to play a game for 3 months, then have them do it again. Or they get that person to upgrade to Live, which actually ends up costing more than if that person had just joined Live in the first place. It's exactly how they do their consoles. Buy a premium, or get a cheaper Arcade only to end up paying more to get the premium features. Live even has ads on the dashboard for Gold members, so sponsoring 1 vs 100 means nothing.

Stil, MS has been using careful words when talking about the future of 1 vs 100 though. It even sounds like they're fully open to charging for it.

http://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/blog/article/3507/page-1/

"We're launching Season One as a Beta. So, just like TV shows have pilot seasons, we're going to get a lot of information from our first season then take it from there. In the first season, the beta season, it will be free to our Gold subscribers."

Reading between the lines this could mean that when Season Two goes out to all Xbox LIVE subscribers that there could be fees involved. Perhaps this will apply to Silver subscribers who don't pay the annual subscription to enjoy online versus gaming and other social functions available to Gold. However Chee is guarded on this point for now: "We don't have anything to announce other than the first season at the moment. We're treating it like the TV shows treat a pilot, and we're absolutely hoping that it will be successful. We haven't decided on the business model yet, all we know is that when we launch this game it will be free to Gold subscribers."

[Miles_Yuhas]

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I think that asking Silver members to pay and still have it be free for Gold members is fair and a smart move by Microsoft. It could entice some Silver members to fork up for a Gold membership.

[55]

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I wouldn't know if it would be worth it or not since I still haven't even been able to play the damn game yet.

[Stumbleweed]

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I'll be on tonight playing for sure.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

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I'll be on tonight playing for sure.

Same here, bro. I'm going to send you a friend request so we can get some OSer's to party up before all the fun starts.