You forget a major aspect of full electric that fits well with your discussion:
Your house becomes a gas station. Your work becomes a gas station. Just like today's phones which only last a day, you get home , you plug it in.
Your main concern would be forgetting to plug it in, just like forgetting to get gas. The car will let you know, and in the case of he Tesla tell you where you can go to charge without any special action required.
As for the subscribed content, I've heard in several interviews that the differences between the subscribed and non-paying clients would be fairly small at launch but would increase over time. This eases players into the concept and will probably gain more interest over time. It was stated that they are not introducing a game breaking tier system where players can become vastly superior because they have subscribed for content. This is humored in the featured Penny Arcade comic http://www.hellgateguru.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/20070511.jpg
Some of the early content afforded for subscribing initially is more stash space (similar to D2 stash system).You are afforded 12 character slots for online play where the basic accounts have only three, allowing for two variants of each class if you wished. Game modes and other non-gear related features such as classic "hard-core" mode have been cited as well. In the future there would be four month cycles of large content releases similar to current Blizzard World of Warcraft models but also smaller monthly content updates. Adding new areas, special group content, as well as new item content/improvements.
An interesting choice available for a short time is the lifetime subscription being made available http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=80910. For $150 USD you can sign up for a subscription plan that lasts the duration of the service. This amounts to nearly 16 months if you were to play monthly so if you had the game for at least a year and a bit it would become worth the initial purchase. If the lifetime of the game holds up to Diablo 2 this could be a very good deal.
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You forget a major aspect of full electric that fits well with your discussion: Your house becomes a gas station. Your work becomes a gas station. Just like today's phones which only last a day, you get home , you plug it in. Your main concern would be forgetting to plug it in, just like forgetting to get gas. The car will let you know, and in the case of he Tesla tell you where you can go to charge without any special action required.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
As for the subscribed content, I've heard in several interviews that the differences between the subscribed and non-paying clients would be fairly small at launch but would increase over time. This eases players into the concept and will probably gain more interest over time. It was stated that they are not introducing a game breaking tier system where players can become vastly superior because they have subscribed for content. This is humored in the featured Penny Arcade comic http://www.hellgateguru.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/20070511.jpg
Some of the early content afforded for subscribing initially is more stash space (similar to D2 stash system).You are afforded 12 character slots for online play where the basic accounts have only three, allowing for two variants of each class if you wished. Game modes and other non-gear related features such as classic "hard-core" mode have been cited as well.
In the future there would be four month cycles of large content releases similar to current Blizzard World of Warcraft models but also smaller monthly content updates. Adding new areas, special group content, as well as new item content/improvements.
An interesting choice available for a short time is the lifetime subscription being made available http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=80910. For $150 USD you can sign up for a subscription plan that lasts the duration of the service. This amounts to nearly 16 months if you were to play monthly so if you had the game for at least a year and a bit it would become worth the initial purchase. If the lifetime of the game holds up to Diablo 2 this could be a very good deal.
I wonder what it would take to get these things study enough for use, One bump could send your quantum bit for a visit with its neighbor.