John Smedley: EverQuest II seeing 'amazing growth' following F2P

@Comrade Domovoi If you were willing to buy and pay monthly for the game why are you even on here complaining?

If you did that you'd have full access to all the classes and races.

I don't quite understand what you're complaining about.

@hami83

The point is that a lot of other F2P titles don't hit you with so many limitations before you can even make a character, which can make it discouraging for new players. The point is I don't want to pay a sub but casually use the store, and needing to use said store for any of the interesting classes or races before I even start playing again is a deal breaker.

Take DCUO, which is another SOE F2P game. You can make all the power sets and weapons (or damn near all of them I don't remember seeing a limitation). LOTRO has only 2 classes for purchase.

Also, what kind of moronic comment is "if I was willing to pay a sub earlier"? I was willing to pay a sub earlier because there was no other choice, but now with so many MMOs out and F2P ones too boot, why would I waste my time on one that bars me from the get-go from doing what I want? I'm saying from a consumer point of view with regards to F2P switches, they can either have no income from me as before when I wasn't paying a sub, or they can have some income from me through cash shop transactions instead of none at all. If I don't even want to make a character due to the limitations without buying anything, I'm not going to play period.

@Comrade Domovoi

You're complaining about free.

You get 8 classes, 5 or 6 races and like 90 levels and 9 expansions for free.

@Yellowdancer

But you obviously can't get any sense of what the game is with that limited choice... I mean they let you play to max level in all but the newest content while also being able to play multiple choices from every main class archtype. That just isn't enough to go on.

@Comrade Domovoi

So no box to buy, plunk down the equivalent of 1 month subscription to access the class you want to play ($7.50) and the race you want + 2 more ($7.50).

If you had no intention of paying anything at all, I'm pretty sure SOE isn't going to miss you.

@Comrade Domovoi : I agree that the class and race restrictions are a bad idea, although I think not for the same reason as you do.

How does F2P work? Simple. You let people start playing for free, you get them hooked on an enjoyable game, and then you give them an opportunity and reason to start spending money.

Locked races and classes? Doesn't fit that pattern. Person starts playing for free. Enjoys the game. Gets hooked. Now you're offering them.. the chance to pay money to throw away the character they've been playing and start again from level 1? That doesn't sound like a winner of an idea to me.

@Comrade Domovoi You are so full of it. Have you tried Age of Conan or LOTRO with their restrictions? Have you tried Allods or DCUO with their Pay-to-Win? What about Battlefield Heroes?

As the prior poster pointed out.. you are bitching because you can't play fully for free when you admit readily you paid in the past. Grow up.

@Yellowdancer
Yeah and NCSoft published it's own games in Europe as well and then with the transition to f2p Lineage 2 and Aion got separate EU publishers. I wonder what is going on there and is this an industry wide trend now.

@pcgneurotic "The problem with long-term players is that they're all psychic, and communicate in chat only with the odd grunt." Loved reading that. I never stopped to consider how true this is.

@pcgneurotic

So sad but soooooo true.

@cotheer Coming soon!

@ElfLove
Yeah I'm having memory problems here too after a session lasting longer than an hour or two, but really enjoying EQ2 as a new F2P'er....converted from LOTRO actually.