One Shots: I'm on a boat!

Vanguard would have benefited from F2P WAAAAAYYYY more than EQ2. Another brilliant move from SOE.

I played the Vanguard trial completely through recently and had a blast. My feeling after finishing the trial was that I couldn't justify paying a full subscription price to play a game that had few players and no dev support.

I would, however, play a F2P Vanguard and would probably even spend some money in game. I hope SOE uses this new F2P server model for all of their games.

I'd be interested in playing Vanguard if it used the Turbine/DDO/LotRO hybrid model, but not the SOE EQ2X cash shop mess that looks to be on the way.

I've really enjoyed Vanguard every time I've given it a shot. Barren world is the only thing that kept me from sticking around. They should really go F2P and sell XP potions; hell, I'd even buy some.

I'd be much more interested in F2P Vanguard than EQ2 any day of the week

I agree that SOE would do well to add a F2P option to all their MMOs. I'd probably try out Vanguard and SWG, and would certainly return to the original EverQuest occasionally. Sometimes I miss role-playing an ogre.

Look again...

THE BOAT IS NOW DIAMONDS!!

I'm sure that, at some point, SOE will try out a different kind of F2P plan on Vanguard. At this point very few of their existing MMOs are bringing in much revenue compared to what they used to (except Free Realms I guess). I have a sneaking suspicion that SOE will be testing out different models and ideas on their existing MMOs because they're in the planning stages for a new major WoW/EQ-clone MMO - maybe EverQuest 3 (I think they'd use the EverQuest name again, but probably not set in Norrath).

Plus they have DCUO and The Agency waiting in the wings and Planetside 2 in development. While SOE have always kept old MMOs on life support with the Station Pass I wonder if a time will come when they have another big hit and decide not to care about the older games anymore, because they have more up-to-date revenue streams in place.

From SWG/Planetside/EQ1-2 we know SOE like to make drastic changes to their MMOs to try to pull in new subscribers or to test things, without a care for existing subscribers, so it fits. After NGE, BFRs, Station Store and now this silly F2P model on EQ2 it's only a matter of time before SOE make another huge blunder that will live on for years in infamy.

Even if Vanguard went F2P I'm not sure I'd try it again - I'm sure it's a lot better now than it was when I played it (how could it not be?), but it's still an old fashioned MMO with "I take a turn, you take a turn" combat and I've moved on and want something a bit more involving than that.