With the change to pay to play, I reinstalled, half an hour in game and its removed from my PC again, still the same crap. Because you are able to earn ap for every skill in game, Funcom in their wisdom couldn’t give a shit if some builds struggle mid game, and offer no means to respec. Leaving some players screwed because they thought the description of X/Y synergistic build would be fun, and are left struggling against trash mobs while other builds cruise through group content solo. The “puzzles” such as they are, may be mildly distracting for some, but are far from challenging as some would have you believe.

Why would you NEED to respec? Just go out and get a few more points and correct the errors in your build. It's not as though there aren't dozens of viable PvE builds in the game anyway.

you can get it for 14.99$ 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-World-Pc/dp/B006ZPAXYW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355598377&sr=8-1&keywords=the+secret+world

Joel's cool. I like Joel.

Cheers guys.

cross platform is done on FFXi,I have heard talk abotu Microsoft before but it has to do with the online portion nothing else..Not going cross platform means they are just cutting cost and it is not a good thing to seperate the player base depending on systems.Example i ONLY like PC gaming where as i know people who enjoy other systems.

Mr.Lashley seems intelligent on the entire industry.

I think AC2 is simply a testing of the waters,i don't see the game doing well.I was turned off by DnDO immediatley ,i am not a fan of Turbine games.

I think they just hired those guys because they are talented and maybe signed on at a bargain price.

Shockwave flash crashes right before Joel finishes his speech on the buy to play.

@Hexcaliber - "Funcom in their wisdom couldn’t give a shit if some builds struggle mid game, and offer no means to respec."

Yeah no. You can repeat every single mission from Kingsmouth onwards, including the investigation missions.

If you dont like your current spec, its very quick and easy to get enough points to build a viable spec by going back and doing easy missions below your level.  They even have a list of viable specs to choose from now and show you how to build them, it couldnt possibly be any more idiot proof without turning it into WoWs system.

<span com_body"="">Who the f*** wants to listen to some other guys story when you could and should be creating your  own.

I do :) Actually Pokket had a thread about npc's, voiceovers etc. and I said there too, for me Conan's Tortage was the best npc/story/conversation experience so far (and the lacking voiceovers in the open world was a bit letdown, but FC keeps adding new voices so that slowly changing for the better).

And while I love TSW, in the npc/convo department I think it's a bit stepback from AoC. Joel said in the FTW Live the reasons behind it, but I still think, an AoC'ish type of npc interaction would be better... now it sometimes feels like I'm listening a tape the npc recorded earlier to play it for the curious players :)

(I mean the backstory, his/her opinion from other factions and the Council, those parts of the conversation is pretty straightforward)

 Bought and downloaded TSW. Played for about 1 hour. It was a fun time, but I am just not one who enjoys killing zombies. The game seemed to be designed well and I will pop in and try it out once in a while, but I see this as a big niche game. I am one of those gamers that rather have a fanatasy world with Elves and Dwarves, etc in it.

Great show! I enjoyed the info and the banter. Keep up the good work.

TSW is a fantastic game, sure it has some flaws which will be ironed out with time but it has always been a stand strong game, even if it's niche. With me, I loved the game but being a heavy gamer I cleared the content, including the nightmares relatively quickly and I mean I did 'everything' within the game. I left no stone unturned. But, because of the lack of things to do and the 'need' to play it to make my sub worth while I quickly became bored.

However, this new B2P model is fantastic for me, I can now log on and play whenever I want andI can just purchase DLC to play like I did with Borderlands. In between those periods I can spend a bit extra on cosmetics which was something I didn't want to do when I was paying for a sub.

In short, I love the game, glad I can play it more causally and either way Funcom will be getting some cash from me as long as the quality of the content is good and that the DLCs aren't too expensive, I would for example happily pay 10-15 dollars for Tokyo expansion coming out next year.

I can only hope that this payment model proves to be successful and allows them to do more with their development time.

God speed Funcom!