Yeah I know I'm a sandbox, high risk pvp guy but two days ago I decided to make a unlimited free trial to WAR since the game was still installed onto my PC.

Within an hour I was in 100+ player Orvr skirmish in Empire T1 with no stutter, my spells were more responsive, no rubber banding, no client crashes and I was even able to put a few settings on High using a single core Cpu 6 year old PC.

Around seven months ago I couldn't do a PQ with more than five players without stuttering like a crack head in need of a fix.

If the preformance issues kept you away before try the unlimited trial its free forever and you can level and twink 24 classes have acces to a dungeon, lairs,  three SCs, chaotic Orvr, dozens of PQs forever.

Not bad for a casual experience imo.

I don't know if I will renew my account and continue my T3 shaman but I will totally keep this trial and twink out and enjoy a Orvr skirmish and SCs here and there.

Yea, performance improvements were great stuff, lot of people have come back after those.

I have been thinking about this aswell, and right now i decided to try it out again. Unlimited trial up till T2 sounds like it could be fun from time to time as a potential time killer :)

Tbh, this is prolly the BEST free game out there now, MMO wise.  1-11 is the most fun PvP out I think, extremely balanced (to as much as low levels can be) and just something to have tons of fun with buddys with.

I do agree on the fun part in T1, but unfortunately noone can deny that this game is dead. Especially after yesterdays major layoffs in Mythic. In my opinion, the unlimited free trial was a desperation move, trying to salvage whatever they could of this game. They have absolutely NO excuse for me as a company. They had it all. Excellent IP and tons of money. They simply failed to deliver.

Too bad. I had really high hopes when this game launched.

Originally posted by Swanea

Tbh, this is prolly the BEST free game out there now, MMO wise.  1-11 is the most fun PvP out I think, extremely balanced (to as much as low levels can be) and just something to have tons of fun with buddys with.

I think you mean 1-10 no?

Edit: Hmm perhaps not, could've sworn I saw someone mention a level 10 cap for the endless trial so as to prevent twinking  but the trial faq makes no mention of it so I guess not

Originally posted by metalhead980

Within an hour I was in 100+ player Orvr skirmish in Empire T1 with no stutter, my spells were more responsive, no rubber banding, no client crashes and I was even able to put a few settings on High using a single core Cpu 6 year old PC.

 

What is your CPU's clock speed? I quit the game because it was impossible for me to ORvR with my Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2 GHz

 

Yea i am thinking about coming back also.

Originally posted by Pheace

Originally posted by Swanea

Tbh, this is prolly the BEST free game out there now, MMO wise.  1-11 is the most fun PvP out I think, extremely balanced (to as much as low levels can be) and just something to have tons of fun with buddys with.

 

I think you mean 1-10 no?

Edit: Hmm perhaps not, could've sworn I saw someone mention a level 10 cap for the endless trial so as to prevent twinking  but the trial faq makes no mention of it so I guess not

10 is indeed the maximum in the trial, but the maximum level in tier 1 is 11. Everyone in the RvR zone or scenarios gets temporarily buffed to level 11, however.

do you guys know if the EU Trial is unlimited???

Originally posted by metalhead980

Not bad for a casual experience imo.

This.

I returned about 2 weeks ago myself via free trial and was pleasantly surprised. Friday night LAN parties with coworkers and beers now has purpose again. While it doesn't change the meta-game (end-cap) crap that WAR is, it does make for a very, VERY pleasant casual experience indeed.

And free! Can't beat that.

Note: I had more fun returning to WAR and playing a zealot from 1-10 again than I did at AION launch playing a mage from 1-10. For comparison's sake. (I'm fully aware this comment will attract unintended flames).

This is why I thought their free 1-10 idea was not well thought out. You can see from the responses that people will literally only play the free part and will never send money Mythic's way. The best PvP in the game always was the T1, and so then they gave that part free. Guess it's good for people who want to play while the game lasts, but it almost seems like it will kill the game faster since they need to support all those free players.

Unlike an item mall f2p where even cheap people will occasionally buy an item, this only brings in players who decide to sub and level up. But the rest of the game is less interesting, less players, and worse PvP scenarios. So why would anyone?

Originally posted by SnarlingWolf

This is why I thought their free 1-10 idea was not well thought out. You can see from the responses that people will literally only play the free part and will never send money Mythic's way. The best PvP in the game always was the T1, and so then they gave that part free. Guess it's good for people who want to play while the game lasts, but it almost seems like it will kill the game faster since they need to support all those free players.

 

Unlike an item mall f2p where even cheap people will occasionally buy an item, this only brings in players who decide to sub and level up. But the rest of the game is less interesting, less players, and worse PvP scenarios. So why would anyone?

I have to disagree. I started playing again without even trying the Unlimited crap and the end game has stepped up or is atleast more fun because it is focused more on PvP than PvE. Also since I can play T4 i can say that RvR can go back and forth and scenarios always pop in less than 5 mins (2 mins average). Having an alt in T2 I think also showed me that the unlimited thing is working because there actually is Tier 2 action for the most part and scenarios do pop. Of course I only have experience on two servers and both are North American.

If you haven't played for some time, i suggest you try the unlimited trial and if the performance is better (that was my main issue) then maybe you will have fun leveling to T4.

Originally posted by Magter

Originally posted by SnarlingWolf

This is why I thought their free 1-10 idea was not well thought out. You can see from the responses that people will literally only play the free part and will never send money Mythic's way. The best PvP in the game always was the T1, and so then they gave that part free. Guess it's good for people who want to play while the game lasts, but it almost seems like it will kill the game faster since they need to support all those free players.

 

Unlike an item mall f2p where even cheap people will occasionally buy an item, this only brings in players who decide to sub and level up. But the rest of the game is less interesting, less players, and worse PvP scenarios. So why would anyone?

 

I have to disagree. I started playing again without even trying the Unlimited crap and the end game has stepped up or is atleast more fun because it is focused more on PvP than PvE. Also since I can play T4 i can say that RvR can go back and forth and scenarios always pop in less than 5 mins (2 mins average). Having an alt in T2 I think also showed me that the unlimited thing is working because there actually is Tier 2 action for the most part and scenarios do pop. Of course I only have experience on two servers and both are North American.

If you haven't played for some time, i suggest you try the unlimited trial and if the performance is better (that was my main issue) then maybe you will have fun leveling to T4.

What server are you on?