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Have you played the secret world? I sometimes play it when swtor is on downtime. It has the ability to purchase gear to increase your character. I think this game will eventually have that type of stuff. Afterall they are both owned by EA.

where does it say that......or do you just want to yell wolf because you have nothing better to do

Indeed. Because, of course, getting people to buy in the Cashshop model relies upon a few core tenents, none of which are particularly conducive to good gameplay.

what? you cant purchase gear from the cash shop to "increase your character". Please dont confuse the community with this nonsense.

You've got to wonder why would BW want to sell green/blue gear in the cash shop if long time subscribers like me & you know that we get tons of greens/blues as loot & rewards, so much so that we end up just selling nearly all of it.

Maybe BioWare is planning to severely stagger back loot & reward drops so that new FTP'ers will feel like they're hardly receiving no new rewards as they progress through the game & their only option would be to pay real money to buy the gear that they need from the cash shops. Cause & effect, EA is going to get paid from this FTP thingy, that is never in doubt. It's just now up to BioWare to figure out how to do it in a slick enough way that tricks the FTP'ers while they keep on reminding them about how exciting the FTP transition is for everyone at BioWare & EA.

Only going from experience on other FTP games I've played, MMO's that only gave weapons & armor out as quest rewards & never as random loot like how we're getting them here now in SWTOR.

Absolutely right, you can't purchase anything from The Secret World's cash shop "to increase your character", no P2W options in that game. FunCom may have had a hard time with Age of Conan, but they totally made up for it & are doing so much better than BioWare Austin's SWTOR with TSW. If FunCom got the Star Wars licence to make SWTOR instead & used the same model they did to make TSW, TOR would realistically be a serious competitor to WoW. Just my opinion, but I feel strongly about it.

That's what worried me. Even a 10 reduction in loot drops would be hard for a player to detect, but would push up cashshop sales significantly.

As far as I know EA published TSW, but they don't own Funcom

Ah no I play The Secret World and no you cant.

You can only buy cosmetic gear none of the gear has stats.

Also EA dont own The Secret World Its a Funcom game.

If they sell any stated gear pre or post 50 would equate to ptw. Even if it's leveling gear, thats just opening a pandoras box. All I read was the stated gear won't be high end, meaning to me, they could sell something just below recata or black hole as long as its not as high as high end gear. And the cash shop will sell items to help with leveling. All gear should be orange, period. I can see selling xp bonuses for a hour, and vanity items, but no stated gear. It's bad news no matter what level. Nothing in the. cash shop should enhance any stat. They want to make more money, make the cartel coins and credits an exchange system and theyll make tons of money off cartel coins. but the interview sounded PTW, and that the subs will be getting screwed. Way to rePay your loyal subs hick-a**\bioware