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Well, i just realised wo is creating this game l....its from the same people that created Allodds, and in the end that game was totally pay to win.. and their prices for stuff where much to high....
Personally i think allods was an okay game with terrible customer service and the worst marketing ever.
Lets hope they learned from this
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I agree, but I feel like Allods got as close to a F2P WoW as anyone has ever done. It was actually pretty fun to play, imo, but it was a hell of a grind too.
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Which are still better then any recently released P2P.
Say NO to hype, it ruins everything. Haven't you guys learned nothing over the years?
Over hype before release
And 'MEH' after release.
More like equally as bad, in my opinion, but at least P2P games don't shove cash shops in my face. I can't stand that nonsense. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion though, I guess.
There's this thing called a "Free Trial" which was quite good at giving you a clear idea of whether the game would run on your machine or not. Even gave you an idea of what the game play was like.
But don't let me confuse you with the facts, you've clearly made up your mind about which system is best !
The majority of games don't do a free trial, though. Regardless of system performance, they simply don't want you to see the bad things and form an opinion. They'd rather you have buyers remorse and actually play through the game because you feel like you have to, hoping you find something you like in there.
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Durnzig - 90 Paladin - Emerald
Demonicron - 90 Death Knight - Emerald Dream - US
Tankinpain - 90 Monk - Azjol-Nerub - US
Brindell - 90 Warrior - Emerald Dream - US
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Game is pretty bad so yeah need hype to succeed.
It's basically Cryptic's Champions Online with GW2 questing system.
I don't know of many off the top of my head.
ESO certainly doesn't have a free trial. Wildstar gave out keys quite some time ago, but as far as I know there is no free trial program. XIV does indeed have a free trial.
They all had countless "open beta" weekends though.
A few have had free trials as well (FFXIV:ARR and Wildstar). But my reaction was more against your blanket statement implying that ONLY F2P games gave players the option to experience game play before spending money, which is simply not true.
Alot of recent sub games did open beta weekends...all it cost you was a download to try it out.
Wildstar did it.......and so did ESO. So please don't say that there are not opportunities to try a game out for free.
Oh..and if a game doesn't get "better" until lvl (insert number)...then it's probably not a good game.
He said at release. XIV did not have trial at release.
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Let's not hype and see what the game actually is.
Is the combo system player>player or just more of the shallow single player combos?
Actual grouping mechanics or just soloists inside a group?
Yellow markers over npc heads,linear questing?
These are VERY important standard questions because 1: i don't want to play anymore Wow clones and 2 i want to play a MMO not a single player game pretending to be a MMO.
Example i was recently playing and enjoying Gorgon but they did a huge no no in my books,they give FREE xp just for being in a group,that is the dumbest thing i would want in my game.I want to EARN my xp and items,i want to interact with other players,otherwise i will pass on any pretend mmorpg.
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Yeah there with a other company with Allods Team working to make the game, when my.com is going to be hosting the game, if you look on my.com is on there, but allods is not, if you go to http://en.allods.com/ you see my.com all over hosting this one, as my.com is mail.ru that runs allods ru.
Not sure if there hidding allods from there web site or I am missing something.
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Yes, paying for something before being able to use it. How outrageous!
The point is though that F2P games has the cash shop as an integral part of game play, which means you either have to use it or you will be exposed to other people who use it, be it by using a stupid fluff mount or vastly overpowering you in PvP/PvE with half the time invested.
F2P is altogether bad, it is purely a ploy for the devs to make more money.
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