Hellgate:London Subscription details......

''According to the details reprinted by Hellgate Guru, Hellgate: London online players will have the option of paying a $9.95 monthly fee for an Elite subscription, which confers a number of advantages over the standard free online membership. For their payment, Elite subscribers will receive 12 character slots rather than three, access to a Diablo II-esque Hardcore mode, the freedom to bypass server queues, account-wide storage for 40 items (as opposed to 20 items for non-Elites), permission to create guilds and attain officer status, distinguishing Elite features, in-game VIP shuttles, and 24-hour customer support. Elite and non-Elite players may interact fully within the game world, and non-Elite players may join guilds.

Flagship plans to support Hellgate: London with regularly released additional content, potentially as frequently as twice a month. Studio CEO Bill Roper has noted that Flagship has always planned to add content to the game on a regular basis, but would need an appropriate financial model to do so.

''What you%26#39;re getting with that service is you%26#39;re getting 24/7 customer service, secure servers, databases, and the biggest thing is that you%26#39;re getting continuing content,'' Roper explained to Shacknews in January, prior to the pricing finalization. ''We%26#39;ll have a full dev team that%26#39;s on the project from day one. Actually, right when you buy the game, when it launches there will already be content available that you can%26#39;t get in the single-player--additional monsters, areas, all the community and economy things, you%26#39;ll be able to form guilds, auction houses, all those things you expect from MMOs.'' http://www.shacknews.com/    Hellgate:London Subscription details......
Thank you for the update. I will definitely make a purchase of this game because it has a free online mode.Hellgate:London Subscription details......
That%26#39;s sooooo lame.
I will def. be picking this game up as well...I love diablo and the people behind it as well.
My concerns for non-elite: Server queues?  No hardcore mode...New content for Elite only?Are there going to be separate servers for Elite and Non-Elite? I don%26#39;t want to face people with godly items I can%26#39;t get.How%26#39;s the Customer Support for Non-Elite? I am going to wait a while now and see how things turn out. 
Wow.. 9.95 a month for the privilege to bypass server queues and actually receive 24-hour customer support?  These things should be a given for simply purchasing the game :P  Server queues, pfah.
it%26#39;s nice that they have the free subscription, but it sounds like you%26#39;ll almost need to go with the elite account, but still it%26#39;s only $10 vs. $15 for all the others that charge monthly fees.  something else that i%26#39;m curious about though is what if everyone on a server or at least the majority of the people on that server, are elite accounts, then what about the wait times?  are they still bypassed, and if so it seems they would have to house an infinite number of people on any particular server.  unless they%26#39;re expecting that this game wont have a large subscriber base.
[QUOTE=''MyopicCanadian'']Wow.. 9.95 a month for the privilege to bypass server queues and actually receive 24-hour customer support?  These things should be a given for simply purchasing the game :P  Server queues, pfah.[/QUOTE]does dell give out free technical support just because you buy a computer from them?  they sure don%26#39;t.  tech support costs money, even if it%26#39;s crappy.
[QUOTE=''eitremn''] [QUOTE=''MyopicCanadian'']Wow.. 9.95 a month for the privilege to bypass server queues and actually receive 24-hour customer support?  These things should be a given for simply purchasing the game :P  Server queues, pfah.[/QUOTE]does dell give out free technical support just because you buy a computer from them?  they sure don%26#39;t.  tech support costs money, even if it%26#39;s crappy.[/QUOTE] And they don%26#39;t make money from selling the game...?
interesting information

Some more info an what all the single player entails would be helpful. Such as, am I going to be limited to three characters period, or is that just a limit for multiplay? Are queues tied to the whole game? E.I. I%26#39;m going to have to queue up to log into one of my three characters just to play single player? Well at least they%26#39;re finally putting some real info out there for us to see, although I don%26#39;t know how much I%26#39;m liking what I%26#39;m seeing.
[QUOTE=''eitremn''][QUOTE=''MyopicCanadian'']Wow.. 9.95 a month for the privilege to bypass server queues and actually receive 24-hour customer support? These things should be a given for simply purchasing the game :P Server queues, pfah.[/QUOTE]does dell give out free technical support just because you buy a computer from them? they sure don%26#39;t. tech support costs money, even if it%26#39;s crappy.[/QUOTE]Agreed, ntm WoW still had long server queues even though everyone is paying, and who the hell is giving free 24 hour tech support, I don%26#39;t think any game does really. I would like to see mroe details on how the online is structured, I would honestly rather have it be more like diablo 2 than a modern mmorpg. I%26#39;m completely burned out on MMO%26#39;s I can%26#39;t even get into them now. I don%26#39;t play games to join some social network I just want it to be easy to play with my real friends. 
[QUOTE=''MyopicCanadian''][QUOTE=''eitremn''] [QUOTE=''MyopicCanadian'']Wow.. 9.95 a month for the privilege to bypass server queues and actually receive 24-hour customer support?  These things should be a given for simply purchasing the game :P  Server queues, pfah.[/QUOTE]does dell give out free technical support just because you buy a computer from them?  they sure don%26#39;t.  tech support costs money, even if it%26#39;s crappy.[/QUOTE] And they don%26#39;t make money from selling the game...?[/QUOTE]sure they do if enough units sell, but tech support will be ongoing, game sales wont.  well not at a steady rate anyway after everyone already has there copy.  you have to realize that this is a business that is trying to make profits, and as many of them as they can, to ensure that they can continue to make video games in the future.  if they spend all their profits on free tech support and free servers yada yada, then that does nothing for the R%26D department and doesn%26#39;t extend the longevity of the company.  not to mention they are going to have to cover the costs of an eventual expansion provided the game does well.
Does anyone actually care anymore? The lack of news and now subscription prices pushed H:L way off the chain. I don%26#39;t think this game will actually sell lots of copies. Just for the hardcore who have followed this game fanatically.It got shoved over by the landslide of other new PC games, like SupCom, CnC3, STALKER, WoW: BC, etc...
It seems like a good deal. I%26#39;ll only get pissed if elite users get access to high powered items that normal users can%26#39;t get. Everything else about the differences seem fair and really won%26#39;t affect the gameplay that much.
why dont they just say pay 10 dollars to play instead of doing this whole elite thing...
[QUOTE=''s1lentHomer'']why dont they just say pay 10 dollars to play instead of doing this whole elite thing...[/QUOTE]Cause some people dont want to pay?

[QUOTE=''onemic'']It seems like a good deal. I'll only get pissed if elite users get access to high powered items that normal users can't get. Everything else about the differences seem fair and really won't affect the gameplay that much. [/QUOTE]

honestly, i agree with you. it seems perfectly fine this way, unless the elites get items that basically make it a necessity to be elite. maybe items with.. overall 5-10% better stats. definitely indisputably better, but not immediately noticeable as such.
The dilemma as I see it is simple. HGL is not an MMO, yet is still pretending to be one by offering subscribtion fees for expanded gameplay. Having to pay a monthy fee for one or two MMOG%26#39;s is bad enough, but now that non MMO%26#39;s which offer standard online play are adhering to the subscribtion based model, the future of PC gaming is starting to look like a bottomless money sink.
Just sickening, why not just charge for every game now. People have obviously been brainwashed to believe this nonsense about huge maintenance costs, servers tech-support, yadda yadda yadda. All i have to say Guildwars has no fees, it survives so have thousands and thousands of games before that. All get patches all have tech support and also guess what some even have free bonus content, UT anyone?Wake up people most companies are corporations meaning they HAVE to make money for shareholders. In fact I GUARANTEE it woun%26#39;t cost 10$ a month to maintain especially since more users = less cost per user (economics 101 for our uneducated brainwashed masses). Just say its to make money and be done with it, I have no problem with paying for something I enjoy, I know its an industry and I know it wants to make money. Sad thing is all these ''elite users'' are eating up the slop big companies throw at them, truly a sad state for gaming.  IMO