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Honestly, I do too. I'd buy it on PS4 in a heartbeat. I played it on PC but I'm so tired of sitting in front of a computer.
Taking your word for it.
I'm not overly interested in this title but currently it's 13€ on amazon, which seems like a b2p price where I can't go wrong.
It's very bitter of you that you'd take joy in that.
Love B2P model.
I'm still loving GW2!
If this happens, I'm all over it!
This would seem like a good thing for this game. I know more people would come back to it. Heck if it can work for GW2 it sure as heck can work for ESO.
I hope it does go B2P with a cash shop for aesthetics only sort of deal. Similar to GW2(minus the leveling boosts, since XP has relevance in end game).
This way I can keep my sub to WoW and raid...get my endgame fill there, but spend the majority of my gaming time traversing tamriel.
One year is nothign in terms of changes to monetization and paying models.
Hey DMKano, you promised that we PC gamers who previously purchased the game would be "very happy" or something to that effect.
I don't care if it goes B2P, but if it turns out that I would be able to try the game again without having to pony up any additional bucks that might be of interest, just to see the changes to the skill systems.
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Well that's no guarantee either. Anet has proven themselves capable of making a quality, successful game with excellent WvW and breaking the mold with most of the typical MMO mechanics/features. TSW has also which is why it's still doing OK as well. ESO is kind of the run of the mill MMO if you look at the nuts and bolts of it. Sure they mostly, but not completely, steered away from quest hubs. Their character progression and variety is decent, though still not at the level of other Elder Scrolls games. Their PVP doesn't seem to be that popular either according to esostats.com. But they still have the gear treadmill, powercreep and linear questing. However, if they keep putting in Elder Scrolls features and keep their cash shop from being pay to win, then they might have a chance for some longevity. At least until the next real Elder Scrolls game comes out. *duck and rolls*
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ESO's WvW is superior to gw2's in every possible way.
It is a matter of opinion.
You couldn't even see all the enemies on the WvW map in gw2 for the first year of release. That's a terrible design choice.
Past tense. The reason you couldn't see all of the enemies was to keep low-end computers from melting due to the large amounts of activity, particle effects, animation, etc.. Once they figured out how to lower the resource cost to allow more and faster rendering it became a non-issue (again, past tense). The reason you don't see many people in ESO's PVP becuase not many are interested. And ESO's superior? Lol, their trebuchets barely fire farther than a catapult. In GW2 you need people to act as spotters to direct fire due to the massive range they have. Even a GW2 Motar's minimum range is twice as far as any ESO siege engine.
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Hey, don't ruin another perfectly good rumor thread with another GW2 vs. ESO cat fight,
Stop it or you'll have to go to your forums.
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My problem with this is that there is no source to link this info. For all we know, Kano is just feeding the rumor mill that has been building since before the game's launch speculating when this game will go f2p or b2p.
A "friend" who works at ZOS is not enough, I'm sorry. Can you name this friend? Or is this another of your many "friends" working over at Trion, ZOS, and w/e other gaming company you seem to have amassed friends at.
The last time I put faith in Kano's word was where he said Wildstar could not support megaserver technology. He was dead wrong. He has also shown to be extremely biased against SWTOR, ESO. And yet he defends Archeage to no end (e.g. 'labor system is genius'; 'monetization of the game is something every other studio will copy', etc).
So forgive me if I take pretty much everything he says with a large grain of salt.
Well you do have two more whole days for this news to hit as you did say it would be this week. and its already Thursday.
This would actually be better than it going f2p. Hope this turns out to be true as I might then give the game a spin.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
So now your hunch is based on "consolers don't like subs" I thought you had a friend who told you what was going on?
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hm, so it means that console launch isn't far away as well?
That'd be cool, I'm guessing we're waiting for PAX then since we won't probably hear anything till then as it appears.
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“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Well more of a friend of a friend that worked at a fast food place and took the order from someone that works at Zenimax. It was hard but the friends friend was able to pierce that code that a double meat with cheese hold the pickles actually ment ESO is going B2P this week.
Evidently Kano has been wildly wrong before so I'll give him his 2 more days for the "HUGE" B2P news to be announced.
Hell he's a AA fan so he has to make up these threads to keep from getting bored
I've been here a bit longer and you would be surprised to see how well trolls can conceal themselves (not saying he is a troll).