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Posted: Aug 20th 2010 11:20AM Sunlover said

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Good incentives, but I smell a switch to F2P soon. Just sayin'.

With LOTRO and EQ II going F2P, I bet Funcom will wait to see how they do (Which I'm going to guess is good), and upon seeing the results, they'll make the switch.

Heck, with Guild Wars 2 coming out and requiring no sub fees at all, and after seeing and reading about the reception it got at Gamescon, I'd imagine pretty much EVERY MMO developer out there is looking at providing different incentives and alternative ways to offer their services to players.

Posted: Aug 20th 2010 11:25AM Sunlover said

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So SO SO sorry for the repeated posts! They didn't seem to go through =(
Please delte the others!

Sorry!
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Posted: Aug 20th 2010 11:21AM Sunlover said

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Good incentives, but I smell a switch to F2P soon. Just sayin'.

With LOTRO and EQ II going F2P, I bet Funcom will wait to see how they do (Which I'm going to guess is good), and upon seeing the results, they'll make the switch.

Heck, with Guild Wars 2 coming out and requiring no sub fees at all, and after seeing and reading about the reception it got at Gamescon, I'd imagine pretty much EVERY MMO developer out there is looking at providing different incentives and alternative ways to offer their services to players.

Posted: Aug 20th 2010 11:51AM Tizmah said

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Good incentives, but I smell a switch to F2P soon. Just sayin'.

With LOTRO and EQ II going F2P, I bet Funcom will wait to see how they do (Which I'm going to guess is good), and upon seeing the results, they'll make the switch.

Heck, with Guild Wars 2 coming out and requiring no sub fees at all, and after seeing and reading about the reception it got at Gamescon, I'd imagine pretty much EVERY MMO developer out there is looking at providing different incentives and alternative ways to offer their services to players.
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Posted: Aug 20th 2010 11:24AM Sunlover said

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Good incentives, but I smell a switch to F2P soon. Just sayin'.

With LOTRO and EQ II going F2P, I bet Funcom will wait to see how they do (Which I'm going to guess is good), and upon seeing the results, they'll make the switch.

Heck, with Guild Wars 2 coming out and requiring no sub fees at all, and after seeing and reading about the reception it got at Gamescon, I'd imagine pretty much EVERY MMO developer out there is looking at providing different incentives and alternative ways to offer their services to players.

Posted: Aug 20th 2010 11:58AM (Unverified) said

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I really really liked this game but with games like DDO being f2p I just didn't feel the need. I had planned on coming back after Godslayer but realized it just isn't worth the price of admission imo. If I were to pay for a game this would be it, but still isn't going to happen.

Posted: Aug 20th 2010 12:07PM (Unverified) said

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If you go for a year it costs $8 a month, but something is not quite right in Hyboria. I think I will wait until September 29th to make up my mind on this deal.

Posted: Aug 20th 2010 12:52PM aurickle said

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Good grief.

Why does it feel like every time you turn around they're instituting some new way to skip past levels wholesale? I think this makes three or four different ways now to bump your character up without actually playing the game.

While some people might rejoice at that, to me it just seems like they're all but saying that the leveling content sucks and the sole goal of the game is to be at max level. In which case, why even bother having levels at all?

Posted: Aug 20th 2010 2:28PM Pojoh said

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These prices and incentives are great. Kudos to AoC. I did a 12month sub last fall. But these free lvls are crazy. I leveled my Sin 20 lvls, but I don't hardly know him anymore .. all the bad guys just laugh at all my poor gear. I thought having all these free lvls would be awesome, but now I realized that I just missed out on some great experiences, and now I have to face death even more, now that my gear sucks.

So, lesson: Take advantage of the great pricing, but be careful how you spend those 'free levels'.

Posted: Aug 21st 2010 7:59AM TheJackman said

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Before they offer 6- and 12-month deals they need add a disclaimer that when the games goes offline or change sub to free to play.... your getting your money back...

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