F2P - 3 Warzones Per Week LOL

No. I want MORE paying PvPers - I want to make sure the experience doesn't suck for F2P players who try it one week. 3 warzones doesn't offer that because of reasons I've listed. After 3, I bet most F2P players will be frustrated by the experience...not encouraged to play more and surely unlikely to PAY for more.

There are better ways to do this IMO. A weekly allotment of 6-8 with a 3 per day cap, or limit it to 3 WINS per week...because 3 frustrating warzones where you're out-gunned and out-manned that end in a slaughter will most certainly NOT encourage players to buy more WZ's.

> 3 is fine for a bit of fun and test drive.
> Want more? Pay more, and it's scalable so not much to complain about there.
> Want even more? $15 per month sub is cheap. Not everyone can afford it? Such is life.

/Thread.

Three a week is fine. F2P was never meant for PvPers to play for free.

The real issue is somehow making the three games they play quality games. Maybe have a F2P-only queue?

I agree with the OP.

The goal with F2P is twofold:

1) Get more people into the game to enhance the enjoyment of participating in an MMO for the paying players. Basically, from BioWare's perspective, they hope this will make them more money as current subscribers will enjoy their product more.

2) Make the experience so enjoyable that F2Players will want to become subscribers. Again, basically, BioWare wants to make more money. Which is fine.

Limiting Free to Players in the number of Warzones they can play is a TERRIBLE idea.

Instead, F2P's should receive a different Daily PvP quest than subscribers. Heck, just make it the same quest that the game launched with where they need to get 6 actual wins instead of our current 4 losses/2 wins quest.

That way, F2P's continue to make the game as fun as possible for subscribers, and, are still incentivized to want to become subscribers themselves since gearing would become fundamentally easier.

Maybe even consider keeping the F2P PvP Weekly the same as it is for everyone right now, but allow subscribers to get one that is 8 losses/4 wins?

I agree with the OP.

The goal with F2P is twofold:

1) Get more people into the game to enhance the enjoyment of participating in an MMO for the paying players. Basically, from BioWare's perspective, they hope this will make them more money as current subscribers will enjoy their product more.

2) Make the experience so enjoyable that F2Players will want to become subscribers. Again, basically, BioWare wants to make more money. Which is fine.

Limiting Free to Players in the number of Warzones they can play is a TERRIBLE idea.

Instead, F2P's should receive a different Daily PvP quest than subscribers. Heck, just make it the same quest that the game launched with where they need to get 6 actual wins instead of our current 4 losses/2 wins quest.

That way, F2P's continue to make the game as fun as possible for subscribers, and, are still incentivized to want to become subscribers themselves since gearing would become fundamentally easier.

Maybe even consider keeping the F2P PvP Weekly the same as it is for everyone right now, but allow subscribers to get one that is 8 losses/4 wins?

There should be no restriction for F2P to do anything. Do BW not understand the F2P model at all? All they did with this was extend the free trial a bit its still a subscription game really.
With F2P you only should be paying for stuff like xp boosts maybe a boost to make mobs drop more credits and of course visual changes to your armour hair make up piercings whatever lol. With this "F"2P theyre launching at the min its absolutely not going to bring anyone back into the game for an extended period at all at best it may coax a few new subs who may or may not stick it out. A cynic would say this is just EA/BW/Whoever trying to squeeze a few more dollars out of the game without thinking about its long term survival as an MMO cause there is no way with this model that the game is going to survive

I'm not overly fond of limiting Free Players so harshly, but at the same time I pay 15 bucks a month. As someone pointed out, that's little more than 50 cents a day. If someone actually cares about the game, a full sub is nothing. If not, then they can be restricted to hell

What a jaded and negative attitude...

We need people to TRY, and LIKE, this game. Restricting them "to hell" sure doesn't help with that. We need them to WANT more...not just PAY more. They've already demonstrated an unwillingness to pay for the game NOW, how on earth do you think restricting them "to hell" encourages them to subscribe?! Do you not see the problem with that thinking???