Mandalorian-themed gaming community for Star Wars: The Old Republic
November 2, 2008 by blur

Founder’s pricing

Inspired by the lifetime subscription thread here, which was itself inspired by what Turbine did for LotRO, in terms of pricing, I offer a different look at the same thing…

Founder’s Pricing

You see, Turbine offered a $199 lifetime sub to “founders” of the game (ie: people who were in the open beta, and bought a pre-order of the game and entered a game code before open beta finished), but alternately offered founders a $9.99 a month fee.

Yep, $9.99 a month. No catches. No, “buy three months at a time and get each month at $9.99″; this was a genuine offer to pay a flat $9.99 a month. Later on it started offering $9.99 pricing to non-founders, but they HAD to buy in three month blocks.

So if BioWare did consider offering a lifetime sub to founders, I would strongly like to petition that it offers a reduced rate to those who don’t take up the lifetime deal… and, from where I was sitting, $9.99 was perfect. That is a REAL sweet spot for people.

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