{"id":448,"date":"2005-01-04T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-04T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T22:45:08","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/448\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethargy requires money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Age of Camelot is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camelotherald.com\/more\/1870.shtml\">almost ready for the winter<\/a> and they are finishing to build their stock:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>we are announcing a price increase starting on February 3rd to the prices listed below.<\/p>\n<p>* $14.95 per month<br \/>\n* $40.35 for 3 months<br \/>\n* $71.70 for 6 months<br \/>\n* $137.40 for 1 year<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe they are thinking that the subscribers holding already after WoW&#8217;s launch are more loyal than the price hike. Probably they want to set a &#8220;ground zero&#8221;, accumulating all the odds. So that they can just &#8220;rise&#8221; from there. Something like a sperimentation to check the market.<\/p>\n<p>UO rised the subscriptions exactly in the worst moment possible (after the AOS craptacular launch). Again I believe it&#8217;s a way to test the &#8220;worst scenario&#8221;. So that they can gather data and plan their future more consistently.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s horrible timing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Those features are only the beginning of what we have planned and over the next few weeks we will be announcing additional improvements and upgrades to the game.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That line also tastes quite bad. Honestly.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown promises aren&#8217;t good for the genre. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corpnews.com\/forums\/viewtopic.php?t=1674\">Discuss here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Age of Camelot is almost ready for the winter and they are finishing to build their stock: we are announcing a price increase starting on February 3rd to the prices listed below. * $14.95 per month * $40.35 for 3 months * $71.70 for 6 months * $137.40 for 1 year I believe they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-daoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}