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9/08/09 5:48:27 PM#21
Originally posted by SgtFrog
yes, but atleast they give you the option to do so, and you can buy what you see fit from the item shop. you should thank them for giving you another way of paying for the game.
I should thank them for finding new ways to try and get my money? I pay, I have no interest in F2P for DDO(but I hope it adds PAYING customers), but thanking them for this is kind of like thanking the gas station for allowing me to use credit or debit. People seem to have a warped sense of things when it comes to online games. My thank you to Turbine comes out of my bank account on the third of every month.
They are giving you the option because they need more money, they are not doing it to make your life easier. Not sure if you played the game before or not but they are making a lot of changes to make the game easier, not for me but for new people because my money and the other subscribers was not enough to support the game. |
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9/08/09 5:48:51 PM#22
I wanted to add 1 important thing that seems to have been overlooked in this whole discussion. You get TONS of classes and races for free. There are at least 3 free classes for each type (fighter, scout, and casters) and then once you select say a fighter, there are 3 different builds that are available to you. Complaining that you have to pay for 1 class that was there and 1 class that never was there before it went f2p is a bit rediculous. If you are so desperate to play that specific class pay the 5 bucks for the points and give the game a shot. $5 to play a game as much as you want, which happens to be pretty good for f2p MMOs, sounds more than fair to me, in fact it sounds rather generous. So stop crying about it, you sound like you are 12 years old. |
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9/08/09 5:49:44 PM#23
The game would have been a bigger success if 1) the game wasnt designed so "craptastically", and 2) if they used Guild Wars business model. Turbine hasnt exactly been very smart. They expect the names (franchises) to sell the games for them, rather than amazing next gen mmorpg design and quality. Turbines strategy has been this: spend way too much money aquiring the license, then spend very little on the actual production. Rinse and repeat. They should stick to their own IP and realize how bad of a company they have become. |
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9/08/09 6:06:00 PM#24
Yes, there are a few things you can't make right off the bat without purchasing them: Drow / Warforged races, or Favoured Soul / Monk classes. However, 2 of those above *no one* can make right off the bat without purchasing: Drow and Favoured Soul. Not even a subscriber can instantly make those on a new server. Both of those are unlocked in-game via gaining Favour, and are unlocked for ONLY the server you have enough overall Favour on. I'm a VIP, and I haven't gotten enough overall Favour on any server to make a FS there yet, so if I wanted to make one, I'd have to purchase it. Before DDO went F2P, my only choice would have been the Favour route. Now I have another option, if I really wanted to make a FS. I don't, personally, but I know others who did.
F2P players have the exact same options. All of the above can be 'purchased' by gaining Favour. Either getting enough to outright unlock them for free, no Points spent, or getting enough Turbine Points (which are gotten by getting various levels of overall Favour) to purchase them- again, for free, though via a different method. Even VIPs might purchase the unlocks for the above races/classes, because purchasing them unlocks them for every single server, whether or not you have the Favour to 'naturally' unlock it there. No one can make Drow or FS as their 1st character on Cannith (the new server) unless they purchase it.
All you have to do to get the Turbine Points to spend to purchase anything in the store is ... play. Do quests, gain Favour, get Points, buy what you want. Have fun! |
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9/08/09 6:10:15 PM#25
Game in fact is Buy 2 Play now but allow you to enjoy some content without pay |
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9/09/09 4:59:38 AM#26
I made the trend "the scoop on the store". I am not a D&D hater, infact i love the game. I played the early start to level 3 before I started to investagate..... my findings in a snap : You have to pay heavy to play a Monk class, Warforge, and Drow race, just don't play them, it's just not a big deal. Here are the big deals, you can only play up to level 4 UNLESS you pay for levels 5-8 however people say that you can find at random Siegel's that will un lock more levels, no one knows the details yet, such as if it's only for level 6, and you have to get lucky and find one for level 7 again. Know one knows if they get harder to find at higher levels. and find yourself paying anyway. Now you can't expect to play for free, I would understand that, but the min. you would pay at the store is $6.25, and it would not be long before you would have to pay that to advance. If you just pay $6.25 you would be able to buy the leveling 5-8 package but, everything else important is much beyond what you would get for that price, such as the Adventure packs, They are expensive because you need most all of them. People say you can work around them BUT I SAY NO, I have some experience with the game to say YOU NEED THEM to have any kind of fun, "yes' all of them. The bottom line is: You will get about 2 days if you know how to play, and about 5 days if your new to this game before you will have to pay. LESS THAT A FREE TRIAL IN OTHER GAMES ! If you like the game, I would recommend paying the $ 14.95 a month. Nothing had changed. I'm coming back" but" after everyone gets sick of the ftp gimmick. Pay to play and Free to play people are not gonna play well together, because guilds are not gonna tolerate limited play people. Thats just me :) |
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9/09/09 6:29:54 AM#27
The 5-8 level sigils are not that hard to find! I suggest doing the sewer quests (or Manchester united quest serie, as we call it) in house D. |
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9/09/09 6:49:17 AM#28
Originally posted by BesCirga
hehe I must ask! Why do you call it that? For thoose who plan to be free players I really recommend: RoBi3.0's Free to Play Guide There you can find alot of good information how to get the most out of F2P. If WoW = The Beatles |
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9/09/09 6:53:16 AM#29
Originally posted by Papadam
hehe I must ask! Why do you call it that? For thoose who plan to be free players I really recommend: RoBi3.0's Free to Play Guide There you can find alot of good information how to get the most out of F2P.
The NPC's that give out the sewer quests are called Giggs, Neville, Scholes and Keane |
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9/09/09 7:05:18 AM#30
Originally posted by BesCirga
The NPC's that give out the sewer quests are called Giggs, Neville, Scholes and Keane Damn now I cant run thoose quests again!! ;( If WoW = The Beatles |
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9/09/09 7:12:31 AM#31
Originally posted by Papadam
The NPC's that give out the sewer quests are called Giggs, Neville, Scholes and Keane Damn now I cant run thoose quests again!! ;(
Hehe I know how you feel. I refused to join those quests for awhile myself, but it did pass. Now I enjoy cussing them for giving me crap rewards :) |
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