Akom of Cazic Thule

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01...-free-to-play/

I haven't been involved in EQ for a while now (besides playing one Project 1999 for a while). From what I hear it's virtually a F2P already with SOE's new schemes. Still, I might hop in and see if my druid is still alive some time.

Bylimet Spiritwalker

Just cancelled my two accounts on the Fippy progression server when I bought SW:TOR last week.

__________________


Live like it matters!

Kelraz Bladesinger

Its a curious choice. They can't expect to get new players this way - they must assume they can make more money from the existing players through the cash shops?

Trikki

No. You don't get the bells and whistles for free. Limited AA's and expansion access for Free accounts. The more you pay the more you get, up until normal subscription price. To get people a taste and if they like, they pay full price to continue on to the big game.

__________________


Quit Bitching Start a Revolution.

fildien

This seems appropriate for this thread. http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cf...ke-on-F2P.html

__________________
Nurta <Shark Baby>
Mind Trick - Empire

Malse

Last time I spoke to Wildkarrde he was of the opinion botters were running rampant. Well, now they can do it a lot more cheaply. Macroquest could practically play the game for you back in the day, with the intervening decade of Glide-clone development and MakeABot kits that let you stick a Lua interpreter into basically anything ... what could go wrong.

Still the writing has to have been on the wall for a while. In a day when people expect to get suckered in with endless free promotions, it's little surprise that anything but the newest, shiniest kid on the block can't compete for elusive and fickle subscribers with sticker-shock.

__________________
I saw innumerable hosts, foredoomed to darkness, dirt, pestilence, obscenity, misery and early death.
Dickens, ‘A December Vision’, 1850