When play time is pay time...

The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar hasn't launched yet, and won't until next year, but one thing's certain--it will have a monthly fee. Shayalyn suggests that online games are good entertainment for the money...as long as they're entertaining. And what makes a game entertaining over the long haul?

And that’s really what it all boils down to: fun. I’ve played many an MMO, and as long as the game entertains me, I’m more than willing to pay a monthly fee. If the game stops being fun, I log into my account manager and cancel my subscription. I may play a bit longer until my subscription runs out, but when it goes dark I’ll leave without regrets, and I usually won’t look back. The game box and disks for Final Fantasy XI, for instance, now serve as a bookend. (EverQuest 2 is at the other end. And The Sims Online, despite my shame in having ever paid to play it, is somewhere in the middle.)

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Last Updated: Mar 29, 2016

About The Author

Jeff joined the Ten Ton Hammer team in 2004 covering EverQuest II, and he's had his hands on just about every PC online and multiplayer game he could since.

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