Fallout 76 Price Is In Free Fall Mode, Already More Than 50% Off By Some Retailers

EA ultimas were dog shit, though. I got UO in 1998 and know people who still pay the monthly fee today.

The only thing I ever saw kill monthly subscriptions was EA implementing cash shops and unwanted expansions. If they kept their hands off the game and let it play as normal I'm willing to bet it would still have a huge subscription base and the series wouldn't have died. I know people, including myself, that wouldn't touch the game for months except to prevent their homes from decaying, but still pay subscription fees for when they came back.

After EA EA'd the game everyone jumped ship for player-run servers with classic rules and no microtransactions. Fully supported by donations.

I think they'd probably even be more profitable today, with everyone's internet and computer well capable of running the game, and video games in general being easier to access. For a large portion of the player base it was almost more of a virtual social room with shit to do. I dunno any other MMO that has a satisfying crafting system to the extent you can ignore competitive combat and pve entirely. Players ran in-game newspapers and shit. Craftsmen could mark high quality items and make a name for themselves, as everything you need for adventuring into dangerous areas was made by other people. In high school, I somehow coaxed about 20 people to at least try it out, before Halo was the great social gaming tool.

I'm still angry at EA for breaking that game. That beautiful beautiful game.

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