Large Text ive played org eq since 99, i am not a grinder i like to have fun. grinding is not fun to me. the had thier fair share of ***** ups and i cancelled my sub many times, but hum one of the last few times i cancelled my sub they had questionar as to why i was leaving.

that supprized me before i would email soe with my complaint as to why i was leaving. im not some (no offence ment) some kid whinning bout what ever. so seems back in early 2000 soe disided to GASP listen to why ppl were leaving.

but bottom line is MONEY ...when ppl leave a sub only game they LOSE MONEY...and thoughs ppl who leave will tell their friends not to go there...so they LOSE MORE MONEY..well the possible client or customer what ever yu want to call them.

so with f2p they give ppl the option of tring the game and maby thell try a sub along the way...they can always go back to f2p if they dont like the perks..finances being what they are right now some ppl cant afford to pay for sub 12 mths a yr..

its a social place as well you can visit with your friends so on and so forth even if you cant aford a sub at that time..

yes i understand f2p is as free as you want it to be and it is a cash cow. im sure soe has figured out they make good money by NICKLE AND DIMEING PPL than by subs.

what i dont like about the merger of extened and live.

1. removal of market items armor and crafting consern me most...
im not a grinder and im f2p so i dont have much plat to purchase these items from other players.

harvesting rares well some times its near impossible to harvest decent amounts of rares (compatition between players harvesting ect) i dont have wks to spend harvesting so i can get the rares i might need.

as to armors... well if your f2p some of them you need to purchase unlockers to use them (less money for soe if they remove them)

im not sure bout the other items but im sure some ppl would prefer them to stay in the market


2. i do have toons on live (havent played them in ages but there there)
not many maby 3 or 4 all low level toons but they are asri and other types of toons that at this time in f2p are locked unless you pay for the race or class.

soe isnt very clear or i missed it with what server is extened aka freeport being merged with???

i know when they merged majong with other server i didnt pay attention and since it was a server that i had full toon slots filled... to access my majong toons i had to delet them all to get to the majong toons... which were all highest toons i had on eq org...

so seems soe is expanding slots alowed so we wount have to do that...if you have full slots in both games you will have access to all of the toons.

if you have purchased extra slots you will not lose them..sounds like we will no longer be given the option to buy extra slots once the merger happens (or they have removed that option already im not sure)


3. im gona make sure im not paying for access pass when they do merge... because im SURE there will be SOOO MANY DOWN TIMES it wouldnt be worth PAYING to be locked out because the game has gone down over and over again.......that was one of the reason i stoped paying for org eq back when sooo many down times in 1 mths it wasnt worth the money to me.


so theres my lil chit on the merger......lol thank soe for it because extented is DOWN FOR what ever reason right now ^_^

As usual I don't understand what's going on, what changes they are making, how it will affect me...but I do know that I've been trudging along since the beginning of EQII and I will continue to trudge because I do it to relax and have fun, not kill myself to grind to lvl 90 in 24 hours or less. I rarely find groups because I can only get on at very odds times of the day and usually for only a couple of hours at a time since I've been raising my grandbaby, the most important thing in my life right now. It sometimes takes 2 hours to find a group because I'm not ubered up and maxed out on the equipment and spells, so I don't meet their criteria for dungeon/raid. =-P

So my point is I'll continue to trudge to the cap as best I can. Go with the flow they give me like I always have been. It does no good to b*tch and moan and complain. You make the best of it. It's just a game. I lived before it showed up and my son got me hooked, I'll survive when it goes away. I may not like the changes but there is nothing I can do about it. It's just a game.

Not everyone will be happy about the new changes, most will fuss and cry and whine...but bottom line is, it's your money (or not) and your time. If you're not happy, walk away...find something out there that will make you happy.

An old woman's point of view...

Safe journey...

I do pity the newfreebie, who has no connections whatsoever, so are stuck with low slot bags for a while.

If you have friends, who is not able to spend enough time on the game to excuse a full gold subscription or who do not have the economy to do so, then the new payment plan is perfect for you to play together now and then. Personally I know a lot of old raiders in multiple games, who stopped due to those two reasons.

They are your friends, so naturally you will help them out with max level crafted backpacks and strong boxes, so the experience is less frustrating. With max slot containers on the toon, in the bank and vault, there is more slots available than some games offer, it is not really that bad all of a sudden.

For 10$ they can double their inventory and add chat channels. Until they reach higher levels, they are pretty set.

As a gold sub you do not loose anything. The game is exactly the same for you as always, only more lively -- if SOE some day learns to do marketing campaigns -- without putting a foot in their mouth -- it would be booming. It is a good game, tons of content, a lot to do for diverse types of players.

There is some issues with inconsistency of some features from xpac to xpac that fragments my feel of wholeness in game, that frustrates me personally, but I never saw any threads on the forums about it, so that might just be my personal pet pew.

Some people call F2P Pay to Win. Only shows a lack of insight as to what is really going on. There is no all win button somewhere that you can buy for station cash with the new plan - and I agree, there should not be. Power items should stay out of the game. Only one of them that fits with the adapted flexibility payment plan is a replenish vitality potion for weekend warriors and holiday samurais.

Only issue I have had so far is Wand of Obliteration pretty much being required by groups on Freeport on Lord Bob (pools) and the ruined bath guy (tofs). Personally I would prefer such items to never come back in the game and the encounters fixed instead.

Some people thinks F2P will mean no people in DoV zones and barely any lvl 90s. Again, lack of insight. EQ2x have had plenty of people with DoV since the xpac was released. The server also have plenty of level 90s, and plenty of gold/platinum subs, who choose to play there for various reasons and no, none of those I have met claims the invisible "Pay to Win" button to be the reason. It is the flexibility, the oppotunity to play with economy/time challenged old friends etc. that attracted live players to roll on Freeport.

Most games with multiple xpac includes old xpac for free in new xpacs. Freebies just get the free old xpacs without access to the new one. Not including DoV in AoD is a bad move, the extra content being released until 2013 just for DoV owners has to be a very good to excuse making such a decision!

Keep the power items out of the marketplace, and none of the issues people have with a game with a F2P plan actually exists.

Did they fixed the graphic engine yet, does it still require a pentium 8000k to be able to play at ultra settings and with 30+ fps?

I guess not.

I must say that I'm slightly surprised by this because they already had a f2p server going, but I guess that was really just a test for the real thing. It's kind of a bummer to see games go this direction, but I can understand why they do. It's very profitable. If you want to keep playing your favorite game, you'll just have to deal with this type of subscription service. Hopefully the f2p server that is up atm was enough for them to get all the kinks out tho! Sony is notorious for creating more glitches. I don't want to log in on my Live account that got switched to Gold and get ANY RESTRICTIONS. For example: I have 10 characters atm, and I can see them ******** up and only giving me access to 7 when it gets changed. ><

Edited, Nov 10th 2011 4:42pm by Favellena