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Not yet!

Absolutely! Markets evolve, see, for example, nobody was willing to pay on things like Siri, and now millions of folks are spending 25 USD/month on Siri+.

EDIT: sorry, just came from the future.

Not sure of the cost of MMORPG, but at one stage they were like $12-$14, and Everquest even had a server that was lived for a couple of years, legend, where it was like $40/month, a bit pay-to-win server...I mean with a better CS support.

> but at one stage they were like $12-$14

they (the ones that are subscription) still are.

And most of them have micro-transactions on top of that as well. Some will give you a (very) limited number of micro-transaction currency-units per month.

$50 up front and $10/month...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_pass_(video_games)