Vanguard going free-to-play this summer, beefs up dev team

@alzeer
more like, 3 years too late

@alzeer

I know... the only word that comes to mind is.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@alzeer About time!

I've been wanting to check out this game for so friggin' long, but I'm a one-sub kinda MMO player.

However besides my single sub game, I will usually play at least 4 F2P games, even buy $hop options if I like the game enough.

@Gaugamela
Makes sense, they made a ton of money off stuff like Free Realms, and DCU picked up quite a bit once it went F2P as well. I'll die if they announce EQ Next as Free to play from day one, or buy ti play like guildwars.

@mrantimatter

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/03/16/terrazas-talks-everquest-f2p-launch-and-anniversary-celebration

They did announce EQ to become FTP a while ago....

@mrantimatter Wait sorry, I get what your saying now XD. My bad I read your comment wrong! lol

@mrantimatter

I hope this "Buy to Play"/"Free to Play" thing catches fire soon. I'd rather have EVER game be buy to play with expansion packs. Y'know, the way games used to be before idiots started buying into monthly fees...

@mrantimatter

Good news! They already have said it will be F2P day 1.

@ShivanSwordsman LOLWUT? MMO's have always been pay to play until recently. Hell, if you go back far enough to something like gemstone 3 they used to charge you insane amounts of money PER HOUR of play. The only idiot I see here is you.

@(Unverified)

When did I say I was talking strictly MMOs? Before you morons started paying $15 a month, we used to buy our games... and own them... and not have to pay to keep playing. I grew up in the days of the NES, so when I pulled out my cartridges and wanted to play, I didn't have to put in quarters that would magically reappear in the company's office, or in their magic money bin where they swim in kid's change (you know Capcom has one of these...)

Yes, we had online games we didn't pay for, too. That was later, when PCs became a huge thing. Doom and the like started out rocky, then we had master servers (like with Starsiege Tribes, which also had the Tribes RPG mod, a PERSISTANT RPG WORLD created by modders...)... the list goes on. As it stands, you pay for the game, you don't even own it, and you literally rent the right to play the game. And for what?

Customer service? All I hear are horror stories from even the richest. Servers? Lag lag lag is all they scream, it takes people LEAVING to get the servers to actually work right. Patches? Every 2 or 3 months at best, and usually they aren't massive, mindblowing changes that you'd pay $30 for. You know, expansion packs. Oh wait, you have to pay for those too... yeah. I'd say you're the idiot in this case. I can NEVER justify "renting" the privilege to play a game that I paid for.