HyperSpace Price Increase from $19.95 to $39.95!

[Ternian]

Read about it @ StarWars.com

I think its crappy.

As Star Wars blasts forward into Episode III and beyond, the Fan Club has come home to Lucasfilm for the first time since 1987, and is offering more to fans than ever before.

To accomplish this, Lucasfilm has joined Hyperspace, Star Wars Insider and the Fan Club together for the first time. Membership in Hyperspace: The Official Star Wars Fan Club brings you the greatest benefits package ever. When you sign up with the Fan Club, you get:

• one year of access to starwars.com Hyperspace
• six-issue one year subscription to Star Wars Insider magazine
• interaction with your local and global fan community
• discounts and early purchases at StarWarsShop.com
• access to member-only fan events
• membership kit

All of this and much more are yours for a single annual membership price of just $39.95 in the U.S. and $49.95 in Canada. Click here to join now!

[Ternian]

I don't understand the logic...LFL could charge $49.95 if EVERYTHING was on-line including the Insider which people now have to pay for - but they don't put anything on-line. Worst marketing I have seen.

[Benovite]

Next year they'll hike the price up to $50 because it'll include an exclusive Steven Sansweet autograph.

[SI]

fuck me, that's a joke.

[darthpsychotic]

I have more hyperspace accounts than I kno what to do with

[DoubleSith]

Wow. They have really cut back on the daily updates and they expect people to pay more? It's been weeks since they have updated with something even remotely interesting. It was worth it during filming, but right now...

A once a week BTH picture, 90% of which suck, and a once a month documentary we used to get for free. Totally not worth the $ they're asking for now. Especially when you can find the goods for free if you know where to look!

[SI]

Hyperspace accounts =

[Forcechoke]

Fucking ridiculous. People would line up for GL to take a crap in their mouth and still pay $50 a poop.

I assume they're hiking up the price to still cover their marketing costs after half the people who signed up for Hype-$pace last year jump ship.

Meanwhile, I have mf.com where we can have all the carrots we want sans string.

[SI]

yeah people will pay it, then post ad nauseum to justify it.


whatever.

[foxbatkllr]

I'll pay the $40 cuz I'm a sucker.

[KitFisto]

I might buy it. It seems fair enough, I payed 50$ CAD last time for just the insider. Hyperspace is meh, but I'm going to C3 so I want to be in the fan club.

[BOBAFETISH]

I didn't even pay the 20. Seems backwards to me, to have to pay for what is essentially advertising. Advertising is supposed to work like this: You show me something cool, or funny, or whatever, and I'll sit through your commercials. Now I have to pay for what is essentially an advertisement? Fuck that.

It also pisses me off when I have to watch an ad at the movies(other than trailers)...I paid 10 bucks, and shouldn't have to watch Levi's and Mountain Dew commercials. That's what makes broadcast television free, and the movies ain't free-Not by a long shot if you eat 5 dollar popcorn to boot.

[PTGrievous]

Can you get it without all the crap?
Cause all that paraphenallia is only available to US/Canadian customers.

Looks like I may never get Insider, they still don't accept Money Orders to my knowledge.

[Jason@Star-Wars.net]

It's not a bad deal for the folks who bought both Hyperspace and the magzine allready. The magazine has been sucking because Hyperspace beats them to the punch everytime. Hopefully they put the pics that come in the magazine up on the site before the issue hits. I get my mag like 2 weeks after the first people get theres in which case I have already seen the pics online and the magazine is crap to me. I don't really care about some dorks Star Wars wedding. If they end up adding more content because of the merger it's great. If they just make the magazine recap the last 2 months of hyperspace it will be total crap.

I wonder if this will extend the "don't post hyperspace content on your website or we will shut you down" policy for stuff from the mags now.

-Jason

[Forcechoke]

I wonder if this will extend the "don't post hyperspace content on your website or we will shut you down" policy for stuff from the mags now.

-Jason

You can bet on it.

PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE CORPORATIONS. They bite.

[SI]

thank fuck for Corellia.

[Ternian]

Well, I wouldn't mind paying for pics and holonet news feeds leading up to EpIII...but $20 for a mag sucks.

Also, the mag no longer belongs to Paizo. Another company controls it now.

[shawshank]

Well,so Lucas has become very greedy and exploits the fans.

And TFN is a coward now .

Thank goodness this wonderful site exist!

Cheers mf.com!!!!!!!!!!

[Justin]

Man just when I thought 20 bucks was a rip off they up it to 40 and throw in a shitty magazine that gets put online the dat it comes out?

WTF

I never thought Lucas was that greedy of a whore, but this hyperspace thing is really taking the cake. That shitting of thier mouths by Lucas for 50 bucks a pop seems more then true now.

[pjvader]

pretend to be international! i live in the UK and can only go for the $19.95 version we dont get no hyperspace magazine offers, just sign up for that version as they never send anything through the mail to ya!

[Duke]

Where does it say that you CAN'T just do hyperspace by itself for the old price?

From FAQ:

3. Can I subscribe to just online or just the magazine?

No. We've united the best of our online and offline benefits into one great package. Save over 25% off of regular subscription prices. U.S. and Canada membership is available only as a complete package.

[Silence]

I'm just steppin' in here to say that this avatar is making me real horney and I don't even need to pay for it! I get nothing like this over at Hyperspace!

[Joe1138]

I really don't understand why they don't just drop the Insider all together, or at the very least continue to ship the print version to newsstands and make a PDF version of the mag available to HS members, and slash the price down atleast $10. I'm mean, for the three or so suckers on this board (myself included) who are currently members of both services, this new option does save us some cash, but... meh, there's no point in arguing the matter.

...So I take it the OS will soon see a huge spike in the number of European members, then?

[2005]

ha! I think they know the cash cow will be pretty much drained out in 2-3 years so they might as well make all the money they can on hyperspace and the mag now.

[JohnS]

Also, the mag no longer belongs to Paizo. Another company controls it now.

Does anyone know what company controls the mag now?

[Lord Seafood]

Actually the magazine isn't in house, it's run by IDG... the people who do GamePro.

[Lord Seafood]

[NorthernStar]

What a rip-off

[Joe1138]

Yeah, my bad...I was going off the impression they seemed to be giving that LFL cut Paizo out to have more direct control over everything, like they did way back whenver the club was first formed, then I re-read the announcement, and it reads that they dumped Paizo for IDG as part of the reorganization of everything. Just me talking out my ass, per usual.

Anyone know why they dropped Paizo; I mean I thought they were doing a pretty decent job with the mag (well, they handled it a hell of a lot better than Wizards of the Coast, that's for sure).

EDIT: You know what, on second thought, Paizo's mag wasn't all that great either.