OLRPG Question

[Fr8monkey]

IS it possible to get one of these games, like City of Heros or Pirates of the Burning Seas, and patch it so you don't have to play online? I mean paying $30 or more for a game and then having to pay another monthly fee to be allowed to play it is stupid.

 

[Maniacal]

Yes and no. Any changes to the .exe would be illegal, same as circumventing DRM copy protection. There are private servers for many games, such as World of Warcraft, although they more often than not suffer from bad server or servers that cannot keep up with the resource demand. The legality of such servers is still a grey area though, Blizzard hates them since they 'lose' money to them, and they, iirc, are against the EULA of the game.

I agree subscription fees are stupid, but none of these games are either interesting and/or good enough for me to even bother checking them out anyways.

 

[hossam]

why not just get a regular rpg if you plan on playing it offline anyway?

 

[Fr8monkey]

why not just get a regular rpg if you plan on playing it offline anyway?

I was wanting City of Heros. So what would you sugest?

 

[Sprig]

I consider most EULA illegal. This licensing crap is detrimental to the consumer. Just another way for the capitalist to keep charging money for the same thing.

 

[hossam]

I was wanting City of Heros. So what would you sugest?

well, i dont think it would be fun, sine MMORPG's are meant to be played with other people, and are not designed for single play. i would suggest finding a private server, or just skip lunch a couple of day a month. subscription is only 14.99 so eh, itll be good for ya.

 

[PhroX]

I mean paying $30 or more for a game and then having to pay another monthly fee to be allowed to play it is stupid.

Why is it stupid? You pay £30 for a new game these days, and get maybe 15 hours gameplay out of it (for an average game, there are of course a few that give a lot more). You pay £12 a month for a MMORPG - CoH in my case - and probably get 30-40+ hours gameplay a month. Stupid to buy new games IMO .

The reason they cost monthly fees is because they have to pay for server upkeep. That's the price for large persistent worlds. Throw in having to keep a nearly full size dev team around, and you're certainly going to have to pay extra. To make up for that many MMORPGS (including CoH) have had huge amounts of free content added since their release.

 

[Maniacal]

Or you could buy The Witcher and get 80s of gameplay out of one playthrough

Plus you can't just pick up mmos whenever you feel like it, since paying for the time means you need to justify paying that much.