This is Why NC Soft Games are Near Dead (Score 1)

First off, NC Soft doesn't really make that cool of games. I don't know anyone who plays Guild Wars longterm. City of Heros is okay game...not really. And Lineage 2 is the hardest MMO time sinker in the world. The game is near dead and so is there other games.

Personally this is a last ditch effort for them to save what they have. And if they knew the true heart and mind of gamers they would know this will near kill their community. When will a company create a game for gamers and keep their paying customers in mind. And you know what if you have millions of people paying $15 bucks a pop each month then you have plenty of money for development. Considering the average developer doesn't make much more than 70K a year and is paid on sallary.

They don't need any more money. Trust me this was the stupid thing that NC Soft could have done... especially since Auto Assault just went into open Beta and when people get news of this they are going to be like "Screw that! I'm not paying to look at advertisements!" Besides that takes away from the atmostphere. Take for instance World of Warcraft or Everquest 1 or 2, you play those games to be in that world. Not to be in ours.

Tell me what you think?