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ghoul31
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Im kind of confused. Is it just always free now? If so, how do they plan to keep the servers up?
Looks like they are pulling an Anarchy Online.
The site says they'll reveal more later.
This is great though. I bought SB when it came out, but didn't feel it was worth the monthly fee. However, you can't argue with free
is this for real we can play for free??
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is this a free trail or is game for free?
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Make a difference!
I'll bet they will do something like Shattered Galaxy where non-payers will be at 50% XP rates or be capped at level 70.
it states 'us canada only' does that mean this does not apply to me in england??
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Freaking Awsome! I always wanted to play this game because of the hype I heard from the PVP but now I don't have to worry about any Fees!!! Downloading!
Edit: I am just so excited...^_^
(just made an account and when I did "add subscrption, it did NOT ask for any credit card info and gave me free sub, yay...downloading the long arse client though now)
Hi! My name is paper. Nerf scissors, rock is fine.
MMORPG = Mostly Men Online Roleplaying Girls
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SB has always been seen as a "pretender" to DAoC.
SB suffered the most from being the mmorpg with the record of being in development the longest. When it finally released it got nuked by DAoC.
AO still has the best ever PvP out of every mmorpg ever made. There are many reasons why - one of which is you can protect what you own even while you/your guild are offline. Classic SWG had the next best PvP, but alas, the game no longer exists. DAoC second best PvP, then EvE, then CoH.
I have always been curious about SB though. It still made it to release. It still managed to somehow survive all these years, barely re-couping its investment money. It was never a bona-fid hit mmorpg though. Blame DAoC for nuking it. I'll check it out for free just to see if it has anything that makes it stand out from the glut of other mmorpgs saturationg the market.
I just made an account easily vendayn....you sure you're looking at the right places?
Hi! My name is paper. Nerf scissors, rock is fine.
MMORPG = Mostly Men Online Roleplaying Girls
http://www.MichaelLuckhardt.com
Hmm, Very Odd. When I clicked add subscription I got no errors...it worked fine..hmmm
Hi! My name is paper. Nerf scissors, rock is fine.
MMORPG = Mostly Men Online Roleplaying Girls
http://www.MichaelLuckhardt.com
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Steelarm, Doctor of MMO gaming, ethics, and ideas.
downloading right now wooohoo
was going to try this recently but seemed to be no Euro option.
Am ingame right now. I just altabbed out and created a bird character. I have no idea what the hell I am doing though hehe.
Hi! My name is paper. Nerf scissors, rock is fine.
MMORPG = Mostly Men Online Roleplaying Girls
http://www.MichaelLuckhardt.com
I played this game back in the day, when it came out. Enjoyed it a lot actually. Main thing I remember is hunting with some friends and constantly checking out track to find assassins or whatever, forget what they are called. Anyways I might have to reinstall my game, just since its free. (Going anti-monthly fee for a while now). I actually just deleted the game from my computer last night, freeing up space. Ironic.
I think I will give SB another try. Currently searching around for good builds for a Confessor, Templar, and Warlock. Think those are the 3 classes I want to give a try. As I never got chance to last time I played SB. Think i'm going to go Wrath server as well. I just hope the newbie island isn't as bad as it use to be. Found 1 to 20 there to be pain in ass if you couldn't find enough people to group with.
In War - Victory.
In Peace - Vigilance.
In Death - Sacrifice.
Without the AD's and blocked content.
I know why they made it free. The next big thing is just around the corner, so learn about SB lore as much as possable, and class's, etc, and lets slaughter each other as much as possable before it happens.
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
It's kinda funny. If people ask for a "good" free game, they get assholes that reply "free games are free for a reason." Then when a game that should've been free in the first place does go free, they fall all over themselves to jump on it.
I don't think SB is gonna be truely free though. For some reason I think a Korean game model is right around the corner. Keep the game free and sell in-game crap to keep the servers running.
It's that, or they just want to hook people before SB2 comes out......
Rather than asking what game will close first, we should speculate on which game will be free next. I'm thinking that it'll either be AC or EQ1.
if AC went free I'd be very happy! haha...still find myself goin back to that game at least once a year!
...is there really a SB2? I haven't been keeping up to date with SB in a while, stopped playin a long time ago.
Mourning and Vindication have the highest populations. The other servers are dead.
Vindication is the lore server so you are restricted as to which guilds u can join