Hellgate: London Subscription Details Emerge

Hellgate: London, which is one of the most anticipated role-playing games of 2007, will give gamers two choices to play the game, one is paid subscription and the other is free subscription. Paid members will have to pay $9.95 (approx. Rs. 400) per month. According to fan site Hellgate Guru, these details have been revealed in Games for Windows: The Official Magazine.

Here are the full details of the Hellgate: London subscriptions:

Elite subscribers pay $9.95 a month

24/7 phone- and internet-support

No (server) queues for elite subscribers, with preference over non-paying customers

3 chars per account for non-elites, 12 for elite-customers

Elite subscribers can store up to 40 items (instead of 20 for non-subscribers), which can be accessed from any char in an account-wide item vault

Visible distinction from other players. Elite subscribers are recognizable from their equipment and may trade subscriber-only equipment to other elite subscribers

VIP-Shuttles to remote areas

Housing and founding of guilds are enabled for subscribers. Elite subscribers may attain officer/leader priviledges within their guild

Elite subscribers have access to additional game modes, including Hardcore mode

Elite subscribers and non-subscribers can play with each other

Costs actually depend on where you live. Subscription fees in the Asian market will cost considerably less, in accordance to the market conditions and expectations of the players and local publishers within the region.

Bill Roper, CEO, Flagship Studios said, “What you’re getting with that service is you’re getting 24/7 customer service, secure servers, databases, and the biggest thing is that you’re getting continuing content. We will have a full dev team that is on the project from day one. In fact, right when you buy the game, when it launches there will already be content available that you can’t get in the single-player–additional monsters, areas, all the community and economy things, you’ll be able to form guilds, auction houses, all those things you expect from MMOs.”

Hellgate: London has been developed by Flagship Studios and will be published by Electronic Arts. The game will release for the PC later this year. They are also planning to provide Hellgate: London gamers with regularly released supplementary content twice in a month.