http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/newsArchive.vm?section=News&month=current&id=1374

Awesome news!! I am hoping this will bring back some RPers, says this summer but we shall see.

I can`t wait, i am going to go sub know just to get my stuff up to date!

Say what you will about the game, but this is big news, and could make it go big. I hope so at least. Maybe if a lot of people come and stay they will open there PVP server back up. We would have factionvsfaction,vs faction. 

Edit*   They also did a update to the game today, wow that has been forever, Fox paladin here i come!

Since when are RPers happy about F2P?

I'm out of Vanguard when F2P arrives, I just can't stand these big "Buy Points NOW!!!" buttons on my screen ...

EQ2 has a nice RPing community thank you!   So does AIon and other games like it.  If you leave that`s ok but you will be back, oh they always come back. F2P is not a bad thing at all.

You can remove those, i do a lot when i play the games.

I do see peoples concern about free to play, all the new annoying kids populating the world and what not. But do you really think they'll stay? And yes its annoying about the commercial and buttons telling you to buy X and Y. 

But is that not a small price to pay for more players, but most important of all, more updates and love to vanguard? think about it. It this really makes you leave, I don't think you want to play the game anyway. I just don't see any rationalization about leaving over this. Do tell.

Definately going to revisit Telon then.

Originally posted by Larsa

Since when are RPers happy about F2P?

I'm out of Vanguard when F2P arrives, I just can't stand these big "Buy Points NOW!!!" buttons on my screen ...

When they actually want a larger population in a dying game?

i loved vanguard back in the day, but think its too little too late for them now. Should have gone free to play a while back to get players back in the game. i'm afraid its likely to missed with the big games looming over the horizon

This is great news for sanbox-ish oriented players...and crafters.

Originally posted by darkehawke

i loved vanguard back in the day, but think its too little too late for them now. Should have gone free to play a while back to get players back in the game. i'm afraid its likely to missed with the big games looming over the horizon

VG could become a big game still, i don`t think it`s to late at all, if they do things the right way and play there cards right we could see somthing nice.  A lot of people say that about other MMO games coming out but you see what happens.

Vanguard is really a goldmine, if SOE can see that and start pumping out content/bugfixes even a x-pack or 2, it will flatten other mmos that came out for the past 4 years without a sweat.

Sorry but it's too little too late.

Vanguard is 5 years old now, the people who wanted to play it have played it.  They may bring a few players back for the short term but there will be no real resurgence.

I bet that some of their current players will quit once it goes F2P because of the baggage that "free" brings with it.

I've tried Vanguard several times as it has many key things that I typically do enjoy.

However almost everything about vanguard seemed kinda of... meh.  It didn't really have anything better to pull me away from the other games I was playing.

Graphics - enivonment is great.  Can't stand the way the charracters look or run.

Housing - yep they have it, but only a few models - far too limited for my taste.

Flight - I'll give them good props for this.

Dip - yes they had something different.  However I found this to be extremely dull.

Classes - lots of classes but nothing that really grabbed me.  I like the bard method of making your own songs.  But nothing else seemed particular great, they weren't bad, just not good enough to take me away from my other games.

Quests - lots but kind of dull

Crafting - you can customize which is great.  But their methods seemed too dull, more of a click fest than anything.

So again they had a lot, but didn't really excell at anything IMO, and this was the biggest problem, everything was just ok.

Unless this game gets a major overhaul its too little too late.

I would be playing VG right now, if, there had been any kind of indication that SOE was putting Dev time into the game – but every time I returned, it just seemed they cared less and less about the game.

The game needs some serious polish tho, before F2Pers will start dumping money into it.

Originally posted by VengeSunsoar

I've tried Vanguard several times as it has many key things that I typically do enjoy.

However almost everything about vanguard seemed kinda of... meh.  It didn't really have anything better to pull me away from the other games I was playing.

Graphics - enivonment is great.  Can't stand the way the charracters look or run.

Housing - yep they have it, but only a few models - far too limited for my taste.

What MMO have you played that has nine dufferent style of houses and three types of vast guild house all in the open world.

Flight - I'll give them good props for this.

Dip - yes they had something different.  However I found this to be extremely dull.

Classes - lots of classes but nothing that really grabbed me.  I like the bard method of making your own songs.  But nothing else seemed particular great, they weren't bad, just not good enough to take me away from my other games.

Really! and what classes grab you then because Vaanguard has some great classes,healers that melee to heal,and blood mages that are casters and healers,the list goes on.

Quests - lots but kind of dull

There are 1000s of quest in Vanguard and so are dull but many are great and fun,especially in the open dungeons.

Crafting - you can customize which is great.  But their methods seemed too dull, more of a click fest than anything.

I had to LOL at this

So again they had a lot, but didn't really excell at anything IMO, and this was the biggest problem, everything was just ok.

 

You obviously didn't get very far in Vanguard.

They just did a pretty nice update to the game, so there going in the right path but i just hope they stay on it.

what i like about this game is that it will not attract those types of peeps that want everything instantly..i love the fact you have to really do stuff to progress in this game.and the exploration part of this game is amazing.

what does concern me though is the lag around veskal's exchange and new taragnor..should be interesting how they deal with this.

I suggest you go in now, and make all the toons you might want to play. If it's like the EQ F2P you will get to keep them as long as they were made before a certain date. Anyway I'll try it for sure. Unless GW2 is out by then....then I MIGHT try it.

Good news, although I hope the F2P model is nothing like EQ1 / 2. They are a joke.

Limiting free players to the most boring races and classes wont help generate interest in Vanguard. They need to take an Aion style approach and focus on making money on appearance gear, fluff and convenience items... rather than forcing players to be gimp unless they pay.

Good News.  I may reactivate for a month and make my chars so they will be around when the F2P comes.