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The Secret World is 50% off this weekend From Funcom
Sigurd57
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Funcom announced that The Secret World is 50% off "this weekend only" directly from their site. http://www.thesecretworld.com/buy/
If you don't have the game, now would be a good time to pick it up!
Hey TSW Players http://www.unfair.co/ for Mission guides, Lore Locations and stuff....
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I was able to download the client for free for the 3 day trial.
If I did decide to sub is Funcom actually going to try and charge me $60, (now $30)?
I certainly hope not because there is no way I am paying that for this game.
If so someone at Funcom needs to re-evaluate their pricing plan.
And if not then Funcom's pricing plan is fine with you?
If you have the trial and an account, go ahead and try clicking on the purchase tab to see what price pops up.
IF it's 30$, then go for it. If not, then well,...don't. I cannot tell you what it wil do as I am not on trial and my options are obviously different than yours.
Good luck!
Actually, it looks like it is 24.99$,..not 30.
http://www.thesecretworld.com/buy/
EDIT: looks like it reads This WEEKEND only,...I take that to mean Saturday and Sunday? I will look further into it.
On the buy page it will still let you buy it, of course, but bear in mind the discount wont be till the Weekend I guess.
I would say based on current evidence it's an accurate assessment of the fate of the game. CEO has stated the tools are there for it to go free to play, so it's not like they didn't see that as a contingency. 50% off now seems quite a desperate move rather than a sound deal. What in effect are you buying? Something that everybody else will get free in a short time. Now if the CEO has stated subscribers/owners of the game were in for a mega deal once it does go free to play, then it would be worth picking up. But he didn't, and they probably won't be entitled to anything above and beyond what people will be able to buy. So in essence buying now might be a waste of money. If people are going to waste money donate it to a good cause or something, don't give it to Funcom.
I play TSW on the three day trail as soon as it was re-enabled (i actually had 7 and a bit days before the account 'froze'), I went to my funcom accounts and the price is £19.00 (half price) which comes with 30 days play. So with the sub normally being £11.49 per months thats £8,51 for the digital down load.
This IS a good offer I would take it if I was you. It will be a while before the game goes F2P if it does and when games change from pay to play to free to play existing accounts always get some kind of bonus and would not expect TSW to be any different.
Bite the bullet, take the pain... get your credit card out
Life is Short, Read a Book.
LOL Hope you're not holding your breath... transitioning to F2P ('Freemium' no doubt) would take a lot longer than 3 months.
They built f2p in the game from the gate as per several interviews. While it would not be an overnight flip the switch deal it will be fast.
Ah. So you *are* holding your breath. Got it.
Id be honestly surprised if they have 30k subs left how many sub based mmos survive on that?
Exactly f2p is not the end of the world look how it helped ddo and lotro
The dummies need to go B2P immediately and figure out how to properly reward the lifers.
If it was $20 with free leveling to the cap and no sub, I'd probably buy it.
They dont know how to. They gave lifers 30k bonus points to only say "oh btw they expire in 3 months and we will add new stuff to cash shop after they expire".
The points were for beta testers not lifer's
But they have also added new stuff to the cash shop during those 3 months + all the original items people could have bought ... So your point is moot