Flagship Studios' Hellgate: London will share many similarities with the typical MMO, including a subscription fee. Make no mistake, Hellgate's online component won't be a string of PvP deathmatch servers, no, included in the multiplayer experience will be an expansive social system that includes guilds and raid-type gameplay.Online, Hellgate will feature all of the single-player missions, plus additional modes, primarily focusing on group PvE instances -- limited PvP gameplay will be available at launch. Additional content will be continually provided by a dedicated team of developers. Sure sounds like an MMO, no?
Update: Co-publisher EA has stated that the online pricing model has not been officially decided (more here).




















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It sounds more like episodic gaming, except that episodes would come in really small bite-sized chunks.
However, if you completely ignore the "upgrade over time" aspect, there are other games which play exactly like what it says: PvE wise there's Survival Project, PvP wise there's Rakion.
So no, this is really not that unique... but I don't think anyone cares about that. It's still all in the execution.
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What an awkward sentence!
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While I'm not terribly happy to hear this decision. I think I will hold off on my decision of to whether or not I will buy the game until there is oh any information out on this.
I have been looking forward to this game and got sick of World of Warcraft a long time ago. So if they do this right a game I was looking forward to now has the potential to have more depth and long term play than I was anticipating. Assuming they do a decent job I have no problem paying a monthly fee to get extra content and extend a game my friends and I have been looking forward to.
Hell I have paid $60 for 360 games that have only kept me entertained for 10 hours.
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THAT SUCKS!
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Perhaps if they only charged $5 a month, and the game was free, i'd play for 10 months, otherwise, go to hell, not hellgate.
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Hopefully, I'm blowing this out of proportion. I've been waiting for a game like this for far too long. If it is too terrible to bear, well, there's goes my money.
And singleplayer? Yeah, that'll be free. But think of Diablo 2's singleplayer and then compare that to the multiplayer: they'll wholly different experiences.
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http://www.hellgateguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2882
Thus far, it looks like Hellgate: London's payment scheme is not set in stone. Far from it, in fact. Don't be so quick to give up on Hellgate: London.
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Same exact thing in my house. I was looking forward to what was being described as a Diablo-like game as Diablo 3 still has not been announced. But the biggest appeal to me was always the lack of a subscription fee for Diablo 2. Me or my brother could easily pick up the game after not having played it for year and start up some new characters for hours of more fun. MMO's just can't work that way.
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