Sorry for another P2P topic. But I want to discuss this separately.
So what I want is compare what I get for subscription in other MMOs and here.
So as a customer here I get:
- A hat (if subscription)
- Being able to play more than 24 minutes a day.
In other bigger MMOs I get:
- Being able to play
- Quality 24/7 support
- 99% server uptime, with scheduled rare downtimes and very rare unscheduled downtimes
The difference from here and there, that I don't get almost any support, only forums and other people. Quality. I'm not getting a good gaming experience because server is lagging and crashing every 10 minutes.
I get much less quality product for almost same cost (okay not the same, but close enough).
For me, it's not worth it. I really liked that game. It was fun to play it with friends (i'm filthy casual). And now I got 2 barriers protecting me from being able to play with friends. First is P2P and second is in-game barrier -- not being able to meet your friends at start. Yea, nice and fun.
I'm not talking about quality of patches in HnH and other games because there was no patches yet.
I'm not against P2P. But the cost is too high. I'm ready to pay, let's say $3/mo, for example. Not $10. I think I'm not the only one, a lot of people should pay if the cost wasn't so high.
I also want to note about game time. 1 month game-time for $15 is very expensive (even if 1 month game-time look much) because the game is very time-consuming. Everything you do in the game takes a lot of time. Not to mention now I can't safely stay afk for a while, I need to log out so I don't spend game time. Very fun.
TL;DR: The game in it's current state is not worth it's cost at all.