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DarthBloodloss
02.21.2012 , 08:07 PM | #61
If it goes F2P you wont have to worry as there will be 2 or 3 new MMOs out by that time.
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Elyx
02.21.2012 , 08:12 PM | #62
Quote: Originally Posted by ShaftyMcShaft View Post
http://lotro.mmorsel.com/2011/01/rea...lay-dream.html

Here's a dude who's unlocked all the LOTRO content and almost all the features and only spent $10.

That's pretty hardcore, and I wouldn't recommend doing that, but watching sales and spending wisely you can get everything out of LOTRO for $60 or so without having to grind. And no it's not "pay to win" as you can't buy top-end items or anything, it's mostly content or things like character slots.

It's still way more content for way less money. If you're subbed to SWTOR from release through March you've basically given BW/EA $100 to beta test their game.
Thats a nice little article. Although it's even easier now, since some of the upper expansions (such as mirkwood) they have opened for f2p. But I did pretty much what he did...filled up my slots with characters, leveled every one up to 20 or so, used those points to unlock the next area, etc. if one of you characters outlevels the others, and runs out of zones to play, you camp them in an inn (too collect rested exp of course!) and level a few of the others until your points grow.

Team up with guildees to grind out the higher level deeds and gain the points from them. things like that.If SwTOR put together a similar model, I think that many people would be pleasantly suprised, and many people who quit the game would come back.

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02.21.2012 , 08:17 PM | #63
I would play it.

I don't see how $15 a month for a single player game is justified.
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ShaftyMcShaft
02.21.2012 , 08:28 PM | #64
Quote: Originally Posted by LaManoNera View Post
I would play it.

I don't see how $15 a month for a single player game is justified.
Yeah, I think SWTOR would have been better as f2p anyway, releasing new chapters to the class stories or new planets as mini-expansions. More like xbox Live DLC. As is it's just not a game worth paying a subscription for, since it's not really an mmo. It's a single-player game with multiplayer support.

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rfcsoulja
02.21.2012 , 08:30 PM | #65
Quote: Originally Posted by LaManoNera View Post
I would play it.

I don't see how $15 a month for a single player game is justified.
That's interesting. . .I could of sworn I ran through EV with guildmates and 2 randoms last night. . .Maybe they were NPCs.

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LaManoNera
02.21.2012 , 08:36 PM | #66
Quote: Originally Posted by rfcsoulja View Post
That's interesting. . .I could of sworn I ran through EV with guildmates and 2 randoms last night. . .Maybe they were NPCs.
So, you stood around in a main lobby waiting for other people to group up for one specific instance to run through?

How is that any different than Diablo, or Phantasy Star Online, or Mass Effect 3's multiplayer? Aside from costing $15 a month (which the online RPGs I mentioned don't).
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Wolfeisberg
02.21.2012 , 08:40 PM | #67
Quote: Originally Posted by LaManoNera View Post
So, you stood around in a main lobby waiting for other people to group up for one specific instance to run through?

How is that any different than Diablo, or Phantasy Star Online, or Mass Effect 3's multiplayer? Aside from costing $15 a month (which the online RPGs I mentioned don't).
How is that any different then Rift or WoW? Those MMOs are single player with multi-player aspects as well I suppose.

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Norumaniac
02.21.2012 , 09:23 PM | #68
Quote: Originally Posted by ShaftyMcShaft View Post
Yeah, I think SWTOR would have been better as f2p anyway, releasing new chapters to the class stories or new planets as mini-expansions. More like xbox Live DLC. As is it's just not a game worth paying a subscription for, since it's not really an mmo. It's a single-player game with multiplayer support.
Thats a cool idea.

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illgot
02.21.2012 , 09:24 PM | #69
if they go Free To Play my spending goes from 15 a month to about 100 a month buying small things for my characters.

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Oofpez
02.21.2012 , 09:27 PM | #70
Quote: Originally Posted by Wolfeisberg View Post
How is that any different then Rift or WoW? Those MMOs are single player with multi-player aspects as well I suppose.
It's different because they have a tool which they click, and the system matches them into a group, while they wait.

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