General Discussion

I have been gaming online for over 10 years now. So I have tried all the P2P games such as UO,WoW,LotR...blah blah the list goes on. Lately however I have been checkin out the F2P games such as Dungeon Runners, SilkRoad, Sword of New World etc. And this has brought me to thinking 'Which really is better, P2P or F2P?

Now I know many will say 'Oh P2P is way better cause F2P is just grindfest games and lack content. They are all the same' But is how is WoW or LotR any different from any other grindfest game? Some questing examples would be such as..:

F2P Quest would be : Go out and kill 12 fuzzy bunnies and bring me their lucky foot and you will be rewarded with exp.,gold and an item.

P2P Quest would be : Oooo them there fuzzy bunnies they be eating all my profit! You go out there and kill 12 of 'em n I will give you some gold and this lovely rusty knife I got wedged between my butcheeks!( and unsaid as a special bonus you will receive some extra exp.)

Ok so P2P maybe has a bit more storyline to make you feel that you are doing something with a purpose and not so much a grindfest. But when it comes to gaining exp. in either game no matter how you put it, the grind is about the same basic ideas.

Character customization is very limited in F2P games. Usually when you log on everybody looks exactly the same save for a few  different armor types. But is there really a huge difference between how chars look in P2P games? I know CoH n SWG have probibly the best char customization. But aside from those two I haven't been overly impressed with the customization of characters.

Crafting perhaps? I don't know much about crafting in F2P games. However I know from my experience in P2P games crafting is almost a waste of time. Usually the top notch items in the games are loot/quest items. Not player crafted. I haven't crafted much since UO when the  stuff players made actually did matter and was usually as good as most looted stuffs. Altho on occassion a person could get a good weapon from loot.

Housing! I haven't found many F2P games that have housing as a selling point. Altho I really don't see to many of the P2P with housing straight off the start either. I know a few have em EQ2, SWG, UO, DAoC. And a few plan on puttin it in. So sure that is a nice feature that few F2P games have.

Perhaps community is better in P2P games than F2P? On my personal experience I wouldn't say that. I played WoW and nothing beats the maturity level of that game.

Get bored with a F2P game, well just find another and d/l it and try it for a few months. It is really no different than gettin bored of WoW and switching over to LotR. Same game just different story n look.

Now I am not putting down or praising either P2P or F2P. However I am just questioning is one so much better than the other. As F2P games seem to rise in popularity P2P games are really gonna hafta start bringing out more that will make people willing to spend their money to play. Just my two cents worth. Wondering what the opinion of other gamers would be right now. Being as now I look at the boards and always people complaining about one game or another.