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Did they change it? I haven't played LotRO in a year, but when I did my "premium" account didn't have access to the quests in half the SoA zones.



Unfortunately, TOR's model (so far) looks more like AoC's model, which sucks horribly.

No. Once you purchase something, it's yours forever. Remember, by default, being a VIP just means you have unrestricted access to the core game. Extra content, like expansions, still need to be purchased. Being VIP makes purchasing the content significantly cheaper though, and sometimes free, due to the free Turbine Points you get each month.

To their credit, Turbine has kept a steady flow up updates going for the game. If new content like quests were added to older zones, you would have to purchase them. On the off chance that you are claiming to lose access to actual SoA quests and zones that were not later added as premium content, then it sounds like a bug and a support ticket would be a good start. More likely though, it's just that content was later added to an older zone.

But they are saying you won't "purchase" something by subscribing, you'll simply have access too it. If you drop to a F2P you're back to "limited" access.

So say you subscribe and buy Makeb, then drop to F2P, going by what you are saying about this model you'd then only have limited access to Makeb content and the orginal core game content, unless you bought it again in the cashshop.

This game is a business venture

This is how I thought it worked, if you had bought contents (or had content when the game went F2P) you kept that content.

I'm a lifetime sub in LOTRO so I've no idea how it works when you stop being a VIP.

But with SWTOR they are talking about limiting your content after you stop subbing, even to stuff you had full access to now.

I think what they meant by that is, currently, you have full access to everything in the game. Free players, when they start that program, will have more limited access, in terms of ops and hm's and warzones, etc.. If you stop subscribing, then you are a free player, thus are limited. That might mean that you would lose access to the previously mentioned items, but you never really paid for them in the first place. You are welcome to continue subscribing and none of this will matter.

You can try and argue that you paid $50 for the game, but the truth is it was never yours. Without an active subscription, the $50 purchase irrelevant.

But as you said, in LOTRO all the content you had access to as the game went F2P you still had access to as a F2P player.

Which isn't what is going to happen with SWTOR.