What type of free to play system would you like ESO to go with?
Ragnar_Lodbrok
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Please explain, this is for speculation, if you dont want f2p dont vote in the poll.
Edited by Ragnar_Lodbrok on June 16, 2014 8:55PM What type of free to play system would you like ESO to go with? 16 votes
Everything available, no restrictions aka Buy to Play no subs offered(ie Guild Wars 1 & 2, The Secret World)
56%
9 votes
Some restrictions, minor like bag space (ie Rift)
25%
4 votes
Major restrictions like content zones for sale(ie Lord of the Rings)
12%
2 votes
Everything for sale, including superior items (ie Star Trek or Champions)
6%
1 vote
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Tsute✭✭✭None of the above. I prefer sub, no paygate, no in-game store, no restrictions, regular content updates funded by subscriptions and not "Zen Points" or whatever store currency they might create.15
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✭Major restrictions like content zones for sale(ie Lord of the Rings)None of the above. I prefer sub, no paygate, no in-game store, no restrictions, regular content updates funded by subscriptions and not "Zen Points" or whatever store currency they might create.
Then why did you answer, I clearly posted this poll wasnt for naysayers3 -
brandon✭✭✭✭None of the above. If it goes f2p me and a lot of other people will be done with this game.5 -
Clunan✭✭✭Ragnar_Lodbrok wrote: »Please explain, this is for speculation, if you dont want f2p dont vote in the poll.
Clearly did not say wasn't for naysayers, the only stipulation you gave was don't want, don't vote3 -
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✭Major restrictions like content zones for sale(ie Lord of the Rings)Ragnar_Lodbrok wrote: »Please explain, this is for speculation, if you dont want f2p dont vote in the poll.
Clearly did not say wasn't for naysayers, the only stipulation you gave was don't want, don't vote
True but they will just derail the thread.3 -
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✭Well to be honest, I read the title of your post, took the time to read the post, and feel I'm entitled to comment.
What would have been better in my opinion would be to have one other option,
"Don't want the game to be F2P"
Then everyone could take part and you would get a much better feel of what those of us who post here (which is a very tiny amount of overall players) really think.
As it is, for all I know, every single person that voted might have already cancelled their sub7 -
born2beagator✭✭✭✭If this goes F2P I am most likely gone. Bots and spammers will overrun the game, and the worst dregs of the gaming world with pour in and ruin the community.5
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Had to check the date this thread was posted...could have sworn this poll was made before...4 -
Clunan✭✭✭born2beagator wrote: »... and the worst dregs of the gaming world with pour in and ruin the community.
Seems to already have happened, IF ONLY we had forums for subscribers only... lol5 -
kimboh✭✭✭✭Other:
I want to pay a sub and have all content available to everyone who wants to put in the time/ effort.Status: offline<l Cygnus X|VR14|Sorc l><| Romulus Prime|VR12|Temp |><| Qwoptus |lvl30|DK|><| DC|EU |>6 -
Heishi✭✭✭✭✭Everything available, no restrictions aka Buy to Play no subs offered(ie Guild Wars 1 & 2, The Secret World)
Guild Wars 1 & 2 as well as Secret World are buy once play free forever, and all three of those have cash shops. Guild Wars' cash shops are a little better in that they are vanity items that aren't going to influence the game play.
That said I'd vote to keep Sub.And so did many brave men, women, and beast fall to the end of Beta, never to be heard from again. All that is left, is whispers of the adventures they had.3 -
Everything for sale, including superior items (ie Star Trek or Champions)It's always heart-warming to see a game that allows overly rich players to bye their way to success.
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Immortal_Wombat wrote: »It's always heart-warming to see a game that allows overly rich players to bye their way to success.
I see what you did there... :P3 -
Buck✭✭✭I think it's awesome you have to pay right now to even post this crap.
50cents a day to keep posting about it going FTP lol4 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Ragnar_Lodbrok wrote: »Ragnar_Lodbrok wrote: »Please explain, this is for speculation, if you dont want f2p dont vote in the poll.
Clearly did not say wasn't for naysayers, the only stipulation you gave was don't want, don't vote
True but they will just derail the thread.
And we wouldn't want yet another trolling thread about the game going F2P to get "derailed".----
Murray?4 -
Pele✭✭✭✭✭Everything available, no restrictions aka Buy to Play no subs offered(ie Guild Wars 1 & 2, The Secret World)
Except you have to buy the issues (expansion packs if you will) if you want to play beyond the base game. I may be wrong, but I think that is what the OP is referring to.Everything available, no restrictions aka Buy to Play no subs offered(ie Guild Wars 1 & 2, The Secret World)
... Secret World are buy once play free forever ...
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Jennifur_Vultee✭✭✭✭✭No free to play/pay to win, if ESO goes free to play I'll probably just leave and play Skyrim instead. I'm so over free to play games that are nothing but an open invitation to the developers to say "But if you just had this item from the cash shop your gameplay experience would be so much better! Oh sorry the upgrade you bought failed but feel free to buy more until it succeeds!" If ESO goes free to play I'm free to leave. My experience with free to play is it becomes pay to win and you end up being forced to spend more on cash shop items each month than you would with a subscription just to stay anywhere near competitive...I'm not going down that road again.
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Armianlee✭✭✭I think it's awesome you have to pay right now to even post this crap.
50cents a day to keep posting about it going FTP lol
Sadly that isn't the case.
1) Somehow beta users can still get in and post regardless of their status.
2) My sub lapsed for 2 days thanks to ZOS Payment processing breaking again, and I was still able to post. (though that could be because I was part of beta)
I bet once they get things sorted there will be a STEEP decline in these stupid polls and the roving gangs of hateful trolls.Edited by Armianlee on June 16, 2014 9:28PMBasic circle of complaints on ESO Forums:
1) Users: Fix game/class/bug
2) Zenimax Online: Brings servers down and fixes issues and deploys patches.
3) Users: OMG SERVERS ARE DOWN!!!!!
4) Zenimax Online: Brings servers back up!
5) See 1)
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korkibucek✭✭✭Major restrictions like content zones for sale(ie Lord of the Rings)Its a content based game, the end game consists of new zones and questing.
It would make sense to pay to access the new "end game" content, anything else would just be frustrating.
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Kenthros✭✭Everything available, no restrictions aka Buy to Play no subs offered(ie Guild Wars 1 & 2, The Secret World)I only picked if it was going for FTP. I like the buy to play like GW2, but i would rather keep my sub. I want to believe that no ftp ;pBut I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.1 -
Sturmwaffel✭✭✭Free to play and I'm gone. If I wanted a F2P, I'd go pick up some random Chinese owned game. They seem to have the most experience in the genre.4 -
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✭This poll belongs on Gamefaqs. I do have a suggestion tho....Instead of sinking this poll/thread, maybe a mod can move it to Gamefaqs so you communicate with your target audience.
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Spiritreaver_ESO✭✭✭~~Disclaimer: Rambling Ahead~~
Didn't vote as there is no "No f2p please." choice.
But did want to ask a quick question. Didn't the ZOS honchos say they would keep the servers open as long as there was enough demand? Or something along those lines anyway.
I admit i'm weird in the way my mind works at times, but to me that implies that if subs hit some undisclosed low point, the game will just be shutdown. I mean in my experience with f2p games, its usually the dev's main job for those games is to build up artificial demand through gimmicky cash shops/pay walls. And that just seems like a direction the devs aren't even really looking at.
Now of course the big-wigs could decide that they want milk TESO's lifeless husk by going f2p after sacking the current set of devs further on down the road. But that would just be common greed there as i have a gut feeling(no real proof of this of course) that initial sales + the first big wad of sub-fees have taken a nice chunk out of the start-up costs.
Anyways, bolded the actual question and am putting a 'rambling ahead' disclaimer at the top of post.2 -
Dayv✭✭✭✭No micropayments whatsoever, but since that's not going to happen, I'll quit if it goes f2p.2
