| This isn't the first game like this. Everquest, Ultima Online, Earth and Beyond, all are "Buy the game and get a subscription". It's not new.
Understand that these games are designed to hold many hundreds, even thousands of players at once. I'm not sure your hardware could hold the game universe, and certainly you wouldn't be able to handle the network load. They maintain the state of your character when you're offline, as well as tens of thousands of others. The first M in MMORPG is for Massive. You're paying the fees to maintain that system. |