Are you kidding?!

[redsoxtra]

This is an outrage. Paying to play online is not something Im willing to do. I already paid 30 dollars for the cd rom and to pay monthly for the online version is ridiculous. I see making people pay a one time price or letting the people with the cdrom game play for free but for all of us to pay a monthly fee is out of the question.

[BBM]

WOW!!! I am paying 3 dollars for a hot dog and you want me to pay another 2 bugs for each drink??

Hope you get the joke.:p

[James Grove]

RedSoxExtra -

I'm sorry you don't like the online pricing.

The CD-ROM game and the online game are independent games. You can play online without buying the CD-ROM and vice versa.

The idea is to let customers decide what format they want to play in.

The CD-ROM allows more flexibility in how and when you play the game; the online version adds community and head-to-head play.

I hope this helps explain our pricing structure.

Thanks for your comments,
James Grove

[Particleman]

Baseball Mogul Online is not the first game that you have to pay to play online, and it certainly won't be the last. Any game that requires a large amount of server bandwidth, and a large amount of storage for a persistent world will require you to pay. Most massively multiplayer games require you to buy a $50 game plus pay 10 bucks a month to play online. Anarchy Online, Ultima Online, Asheron's Call, Phantasy Star Online 2, Shattered Galaxy, all require you to buy a $50 USD game and pay money to play online. Baseball Mogul doesn't require you to pay for the game itself which is a plus. To be completely honest though, I'm not sure how many people will want to pay 10 bucks a month for a game that you only check up on a couple of times a day. The other games I mentioned involve playing for long periods of time. But I guess that could be a bad thing as well since a lot of people don't have that much time to waste. Oh well, we'll see when the game goes live.

[BBM]

ok, redsoxtra, think in this way, imagine you pay about 7 bugs for your 3 teams. Lez see, there's roughly 30 days a month, so 7/3 is 2.33, that mens 2.33 bugs per team a month. 2.33/30 days is 0.078, say it 0.08. So that means you pay only 0.08 a day for a team. How's that sound?
BTW, particleman, are all those game u mentioned are GRAPHIC games?