So basically what you're saying is pump more money into NRS to keep a game alive through steady patching and updates?
Okay so Industry tutorial time? Business 101? Also partnered by Warner Bros. and you need more money? Lol??
Okay this seems like a pipe dream here due to what you're suggesting. Its like you hear about games with subscription fees and see that they're steady growing and expanding and having life cycles of 10 years plus. Typically those games ooze with so much content that you can play it millions of different ways and pump over 1000 hours into it and you're still in the fleshing the game out stage. A lot of MMO's out there on the subscription system have more stuff to do than one player will probably ever get accomplished in the first year. Let alone the steady booster packs / expansion packs that come over the horizon ever season. However what you have to realize is a lot of these expansions offer new features, new classes, new areas, new music, new customization options and pretty much a hell of a lot more than ANY fighting game would be able to offer and any fighting game development team could make without hurting the integrity of what made any FGSeries so popular. Unless you're going to tournaments for any game under the FGC's belt I highly doubt you'll be pumping anything over a couple of ours a day for the course of 6 months for the average person. However there are many other flaws in this I could point out but let's wrap it up on the financial sheet.
The Cons Financially: So 1 Pound is 1.56 U.S. Dollars. So since NRS is a American company lets stick with the USD. So 15$ a month.
So you're telling me every 4 months. I give NRS $60? Do I even have to continue typing? Every year I give them $180 dollars + the $60 initial purchase of the game. So $240 to play this game for a YEAR? No, you're trolling me. You have to. Also let's say the FGC is for whatever reason going to eat this business model up and support it. As we all know "monkey see, monkey do" applies heavily to the business world. If a competitor or even any develepor/publisher combination sees that someone can milk their customers, it won't be long before a domino effect pops off and other games start doing the same. Now, imagine you're playing 3 subscription based games a year under the same format.
Now to play all three for a year you have to pay 240$ times 3. Which is 720$. Since its next generation you're speaking of, you must also buy a console. We're over 1000$ already for 3 games and a console. But oh wait, I didn't even factor the yearly cost of keeping your ability to use all functions in these games. What am I talking about its obvious, we haven't even covered the expense of Xbox Live or Playstation + Which you will need to play ANY online game modes.
So essentially this would do nothing but make things immensely worse for the gamer. This is worse than what Microsoft and DH are doing with Killer Instinct. And that says quite a lot. Also you may ask now how do MMO's get away with it? As I said go play one. See all that content and how the game evolves in terms of not just gameplay, but story, music, epic battles, having a purpose of clans/guilds, running missions with friends, new missions every month. ect. ect. Its an experience that evolves and has much more to offer the playerbase. Alright I'm done rambling.
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