Aion

Look for any F2P game out there, there are dozens of them.

I don't recall one open beta in the World that costed money to join.   ALL OPEN BETAS ARE FREE T_T

AoC's 'open' beta requires you to pay file planet for  it.  Unfortunately I know because I paid for a month of file planet just to play the beta.

Originally posted by Xion1985

AoC's 'open' beta requires you to pay file planet for  it.  Unfortunately I know because I paid for a month of file planet just to play the beta.

And do you enjoy it?

Originally posted by Xion1985

AoC's 'open' beta requires you to pay file planet for  it.  Unfortunately I know because I paid for a month of file planet just to play the beta.

No, you just didn't want to wait for when Fileplanet let everyone, not only subscribers, into the beta. You paid Fileplanet  for the "privilege" of being first. That was your decision, and not a requirement.

Originally posted by Zorvan

Originally posted by Xion1985

AoC's 'open' beta requires you to pay file planet for  it.  Unfortunately I know because I paid for a month of file planet just to play the beta.

No, you just didn't want to wait for when Fileplanet let everyone, not only subscribers, into the beta. You paid Fileplanet  for the "privilege" of being first. That was your decision, and not a requirement.

Well , I believe FilePlanet was wrong when they first released their keys for paid subs only then after like 3 days they opened it for everyone. Well now in this case , if they will plan to release keys for other MMo's in the same way , there are planty that will not purchase a monthly fee on FP. They lost some customers here.

Originally posted by Xion1985

AoC's 'open' beta requires you to pay file planet for  it.  Unfortunately I know because I paid for a month of file planet just to play the beta.

 I'm skipping AOC mainly for this resson and I also remember what they did with shadowlands when they brought it out like 6 months early.

Originally posted by IceAge

 

Originally posted by Zorvan

Originally posted by Xion1985

AoC's 'open' beta requires you to pay file planet for  it.  Unfortunately I know because I paid for a month of file planet just to play the beta.

No, you just didn't want to wait for when Fileplanet let everyone, not only subscribers, into the beta. You paid Fileplanet  for the "privilege" of being first. That was your decision, and not a requirement.

 

Well , I believe FilePlanet was wrong when they first released their keys for paid subs only then after like 3 days they opened it for everyone. Well now in this case , if they will plan to release keys for other MMo's in the same way , there are planty that will not purchase a monthly fee on FP. They lost some customers here.

You can't blame FilePlanet for trying to make a few bucks off a AoC beta. After all, FilePlanet is a 3rd party sponsor and it's not everyday they have 50,000 rabid AoC fans trying to download a 13 gig client. I'm sure they don't want their servers overloading and have the rest of their paying customers complain about server lag(which happened when they made that client free) placing a price tag on this would help minimize this. If anything, this is Funcom's fault for being stingy and irresponsible.

It's possible Aion's OB might end up the same way since their client is just as big. It all depends on circumstances.

Originally posted by IceAge

 

Originally posted by Zorvan

Originally posted by Xion1985

AoC's 'open' beta requires you to pay file planet for  it.  Unfortunately I know because I paid for a month of file planet just to play the beta.

No, you just didn't want to wait for when Fileplanet let everyone, not only subscribers, into the beta. You paid Fileplanet  for the "privilege" of being first. That was your decision, and not a requirement.

 

Well , I believe FilePlanet was wrong when they first released their keys for paid subs only then after like 3 days they opened it for everyone. Well now in this case , if they will plan to release keys for other MMo's in the same way , there are planty that will not purchase a monthly fee on FP. They lost some customers here.

I take it you've never gotten a beta from Filplanet before. They do all of their stuff like that, first subscribers get access, then a few days or a week later non-subs get in. This isn't a first.