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Seems like the free 10 day trial will become unlimited so you'll be able to play in T1 for as long as you like for free, to me that means theres a high chance that this game will become F2P soon.

What is T1

Originally posted by Newhopes

 

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Seems like the free 10 day trial will become unlimited so you'll be able to play in T1 for as long as you like for free, to me that means theres a high chance that this game will become F2P soon.

I wonder what they would put in the cash shop to buy?

I happen to be playing a trial now, actually. I thought I would check out what changes I could. One of the Empire T1 PQs had a map tooltip of 108 players present. Counting me, there were two.

Originally posted by MasterChaosX

What is T1

T1 is all the zones for levels 1-11 places like Nordland.

WAR T1 and T2 is pretty freaking awesome. The reason the game sucks is T3 and 4.

If I were Mythic/EA I would give T1, T2 as F2p Have ADs during loading screens and Things like Renown buff items on cash shop to pay for the servers along with the subs from 70k-150k paying to play T3-T4 (god rest their souls).

That would be golden imo.

Originally posted by metalhead980

WAR T1 and T2 is pretty freaking awesome. The reason the game sucks is T3 and 4.

If I were Mythic/EA I would give T1, T2 as F2p Have ADs during loading screens and Things like Renown buff items on cash shop to pay for the servers along with the subs from 70k-150k paying to play T3-T4 (god rest their souls).

That would be golden imo.

 

 

 

Pay to play T1 and T2. T3 and T4 free to play.

War being a PvP game... i just don't see it working at all with a F2P system. It was based on the P2P model little to long now. Plus it  mean's more time and money spent on something... that will either work or blow up in their face. They would really have to be carefull about how they went about setting up a item mall. Cause it could easily turn into people paying more then what they did when it was a P2P game, and could easily make thing's even more unbalanced. This game already suffer's alot to unbalances in it... either it being job or population. Also they will end up losing alot of their current subscriber's in the process, cause the general western attitude toward's F2P being uttered in the same breathe w/ a game like War is not great.

Making it possible to further ruin the structure of this game... is not a chance i see Mythic taking. But it wouldn't surprise me if they did though, cause it is Mythic after all. I don't think they'll be happy until till this game is deader then dead.

Well, I'd play WAR if it were f2p. Definitely. For me it's good enough to play. Just not awesome enough to pay monthly fees.

What's a frist step? LoL!!11 

I can see some vets who were just rerolling t1-t2 just settling for a perma trial now in the short term.

Long term the lively lower tier will probably get them some subs, although I wonder for how long. If people are enticed by an active T1 and then sub and wander into an almost empty T2/3 (in comparison to T1) they may not even last a month.

Originally posted by Pheace

I can see some vets who were just rerolling t1-t2 just settling for a perma trial now in the short term.

 

Long term the lively lower tier will probably get them some subs, although I wonder for how long. If people are enticed by an active T1 and then sub and wander into an almost empty T2/3 (in comparison to T1) they may not even last a month.

That's where I am at now, was given the game a few months back along with a 30 day time card. I must say I was having fun until now, through t1 and t2 it was lively and a bunch of action. Now that I've stepped into t3 it's completely died off. Anyone know if t4 is worth reaching on badlands? I see dest taking our city everyday, and when the sc pops for altdorf it's usually packed even in t3. However nothing else ever pops at this lvl and open rvr is rare.

Originally posted by Malickie

That's where I am at now, was given the game a few months back along with a 30 day time card. I must say I was having fun until now, through t1 and t2 it was lively and a bunch of action. Now that I've stepped into t3 it's completely died off. Anyone know if t4 is worth reaching on badlands? I see dest taking our city everyday, and when the sc pops for altdorf it's usually packed even in t3. However nothing else ever pops at this lvl and open rvr is rare.

This effect feeds on itself. People reroll at T3 because of lack of population, which causes even fewer people in T3. If there was small-scale RvR content in the higher tiers, more people would stay there. You can take a BO solo in T1 if you are the right class. Not possible in T2 or higher. Put up banners in the RvR zones that can be pulled by a solo player of either side.

Does anyone know when the unlimited free trial starts?

I have played WAR last month while waiting for Dragon age.  I love tier 1 and tier 2 gameplay.  BUt since I rolled on severs where the other faction is dominating tier 3 - then I simply stop at lvl 21-22 and roll another class.  Its really boring to play entire nights - beeing rolled over - getting absolutly nothing instead.   Thats why the underdog system needs to work in EVERY tier - not just endgame.

I will defently just play free trials from now on - Getting to lvl 10 and getting the best gear makes you pretty much play like a FPS and there will be alot of nubs around to kill... well at least some =)

Long term value of WAR is none.  Thats just a fact atm since they can't balance their game properly based on number of ppl taking part in the RVR tiers.

Originally posted by Frobner

Long term value of WAR is none.  Thats just a fact atm since they can't balance their game properly based on number of ppl taking part in the RVR tiers.

Login caps by tier would fix it, but they either don't have the will or the talent to put them in. I'd guess the latter, seeing the slack coding evident in most other aspects of the game.

I agree that end game MUST be fixed (including balance) for the game to survive.

This trial has shown me that the magic even of Tier one is wearing off for me. Still, the players can't figure out something as simple as how to play the scenarios to win, and I am just sick of dropping alts once they hit T2.

Personally i really don't see why unlimited free trials at lower levels means going F2P soon.

Many times a trial is too short, you dont have enough time to try out the all the class and see which suit you best. And you dont have time to truly take a good look at the gameplay of the game. 

So i think its a good move for Mythic, letting players take their time to try it out, experience, and thereby once they find the fun in the class that they want, may pay for it to proceed further...

I disagree with the topic, and I think that there should be more free trials around to let people try their games before buying.

I mean, I might like the game and decide to actually pay for it, so that I can play it forever and ever!

Or, I might get into it and realise that it's one of those terrible click-to-move games that I hate the feeling of so much, a la Bright Shadow.

Goodstuff, I think i might try it out. I havent played it in awhile

They did really good trick.

Let the people play for free at really good T1 and T2 zones, then, theyll pay for higher tiers, and then?

Month is payed, who cares, theyre not happy in dead T3 and T4...

When does this new free trial program start?  I can only find the 10-day one.

Ken