Is the F2P/Preffered system too prohibitive, and if so, what should change?

Then you`re just wasting your time with this highly monetized game, no?

I also heard WOW and WOT are free too.

In all fairness that is not a very nice response to the fact that your inaccurate post was corrected (politely I might add).

Haha ! Very good joke.
Let me introduce you to an old-school concept called Hitchhiking (1).
Free player are no cost players.
They just pay their ISP for the traffic on the network.
Bioware has already dimensioned the system to respond to the subscriber demand (and a little more). It's already payed by your subscription. Free players just play with the resources that are already payed but unused.

Ok maybe the space of a profile in DB. Do you have an idea of the price of a Tera for Bioware ? lol.
Thank you.

I pointed 2 games for a reason - one is THE MMO, which has a free variant too, I`m told, while the other is the number 4 best making money game.

As for one of the games on that list, Crossfire, that is a straight PAY TO WIN game: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertco...ever-heard-of/ - and it is only the number one money making game.

No, it isn't. The chart in that article shows only revenues from microtransactions. As the article you refer to itself points out, WoW pulls in over $100 million a month from subscription fees alone, do the math, you'll see that WoW gets substantially more revenue from just its subscriptions than Crossfire gets from microstransactions.

Interesting article. I'd never heard of Crossfire before.

What saddens me, is how successful that game is (in terms of revenue) with a blatantly Pay to Win microtransaction model. Why would developers listen to people arguing against the idea of P2W, when there are enough people willing to pay almost a BILLION dollars to win.

Have you seen what I was replying to?

The word you're looking for is integrity.

You are looking for integrity among some nobodies who`s only achievements come from pixels. They will only care about "pwning noobs / carebears / bads". They are so bad and averse to hard work that they need a fat wallet to do it. To them, that word means nothing.

Also, those games INVITE you to spend money. This one FORCES you. All of them offer some reward for real cash. If forcing is not his thing, then he shouldn`t be here, or play those very free games he linked. He already thinks the sub is P2W.

If this game will start selling +60 crystals it will probably double it`s revenue. The usual suspects will just flock the forums in disgust, only to spend small fortunes to gamble or buy some of them ingame. I know a certain vanguard that`s on the FIFTH page on PoT5 that would love to get his hands on some.

Compared to any other F2P game it certainly is as free as they are.

Let's see what cannot be removed with unlocks (that can be bought in-game for in-game credits, not a single dime of real money needs to be spent).

Less xp earned.
Less credits earned.
Not all the mission rewards available.

That's about it.

Compare that to other F2P games with Premium Account options.

No premium account:
Less xp earned.
Less credits earned.
Usually other restrictions that vary depending on the game.

Sounds pretty similar to me. So are you telling me those other games are not "truly" F2P as well?

Oh and I've been here since the start and have paid for every month played (even though I had to stop subscribing for a few months when I was unemployed).
So you can take your attitude and space it.

I'm not going to continue this discussion with you since you have an incredibly rude and obnoxious attitude.

Good day sir.