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What would it take to get you to play PSU?

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Heikabuchi
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Joined: Oct 30, '07
Posts: 613
PostPosted: Wed Feb 6, '08, 2:05 pm 
 
If Sega would get rid of that "Gaurdian membership fee", then I'd be more than happy to get online and play. But as it is, I'm not shelling out 30 dollars a month. Not to mention that if you miss a payment, your account get's earased. Clearly, someone failed to think this one through.
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Thoul
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Joined: Mar 23, '07
Posts: 4285
PostPosted: Wed Feb 6, '08, 4:04 pm 
 
Ouch, that would be pretty bad if your account got erased because the payment was a little late. They should at least keep them around for a few days!
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Reno
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Joined: Jan 20, '08
Posts: 175
PostPosted: Wed Feb 6, '08, 4:57 pm 
 

Thoul wrote:

Ouch, that would be pretty bad if your account got erased because the payment was a little late. They should at least keep them around for a few days!


One of the reasons Online-only games make me nervous. I'm paranoid about save data, (especially in an RPG where many hours are invested) and I hate the idea of not being able to keep my own backups of the data, and giving all my trust to Sega, (not the best idea nowadays! :D ).

I agree that the payment would put me off right away, $30, (about £15 I think) is a lot, especially when the nine year old PSO is free via private servers and more fun, (from what I've played of PSU anyway).
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BroWren
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Joined: Dec 29, '07
Posts: 9
Post subject: uh, no PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, '08, 9:10 pm 
 

Heikabuchi wrote:

If Sega would get rid of that "Gaurdian membership fee", then I'd be more than happy to get online and play. But as it is, I'm not shelling out 30 dollars a month. Not to mention that if you miss a payment, your account get's earased. Clearly, someone failed to think this one through.


Um, it's $10 a month, not $30, less if you buy in blocks of 6 months, and I let my account go a year unpaid and still had old characters in it when I went back. I stopped playing online in October 2006 and didn't rejoin until Illuminus came out in November 2007. You sure you're talking about PSU and not FFXI? :eyebrow:

The only gotcha is that once you've played online with Illuminus you can't go back to playing with just PSU, but there's really no point to doing that anyway.
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