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post #51 of 72
7/31/12 at 8:28pm
I bought the game back in January, and I'm not mad at all. In fact, I'm pretty excited. Runescape has been using this model of P2P/F2P for almost a decade now, and it has shown no signs of dying out. The F2P version essentially is a watered down version of the game so that players can acquire a taste in whether they like it or not. If they do like it, and like it a lot, they'll shell out $15 a month for extra content. I can count among my circle of friends at least 6 people who were interested in trying it out, but didn't want to pay $60 upfront, and $15 every month thereafter to find out if they liked it or not. If you can't see it that way, then you're just a hard-headed fool. This system works, and has worked for years. I'm sad that most MMOs don't start this way, honestly.
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post #52 of 72
7/31/12 at 8:48pm
I wonder if the limited travel options for free to play means they'll be adding even more loading screens between you and wherever you happen to need to go. Like it wasn't bad enough with 3 or 4 loading screens every time you need to change planets. Know what was great about wow? In vanilla you zoned once in the open world, when traveling from one continent to another, and once when entering an instance.

I did get a laugh that they're limiting space missions to free players lol. Did they change them after that first month into something that people actually want to do?
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post #53 of 72
7/31/12 at 10:13pm
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I did get a laugh that they're limiting space missions to free players lol. Did they change them after that first month into something that people actually want to do?

No idea if they changed them since I stopped playing the game some time ago. But space missions are good for free XP. It wasn't something cool or interesting, just fast XP smile.gif
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post #54 of 72
7/31/12 at 10:13pm
Free to play? There is now a slight chance that I may play this...
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post #55 of 72
7/31/12 at 10:16pm
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@erunion:
250+ people at fleet everyday and 50+ each on others planets, server population is no longer a problem after server transfer/merge.
My new server has even more players now than my old server from the time around launch when there were still around 1.7m subs.

I'll take your word for it. I don't play it.
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post #56 of 72
7/31/12 at 10:29pm
Nothing will make me forget the two $150 collector editions I ordered and had subed for 6 months.
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post #57 of 72
7/31/12 at 11:27pm
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Indeed GW2 will get a lot of my time but if this goes free I'll crack out on it as well just for the pvp aspect I loved it smile.gif

running the same few instanced pvp rounds a million times over and over is bad game.
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8/1/12 at 7:25am
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PvP was the only real Fail in this game.

The rest was fun.

Serve rim on has tons of people... theres never a lack of people, U can even get Public no guilded groups together in less than a minute for decent Operations.

thats not what a dead game look slike.

Too bad about the free version, you cant run any operations, which severely limits the fun i think. oh well, this is what i suggest

play to 50, subscribe, and get your asses owned in Denova =)

My Guild is Farming Denova and im still having fun, but I need to be off for a while,
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post #59 of 72
8/1/12 at 8:35am
I think the only way to get this fail game to remain alive is a "pay YOU to play subscription model". biggrin.gif
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8/1/12 at 8:38am
I still haven't tried this game but I'm going to now biggrin.gif
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