TequilaFire wrote: »What I find amazing is all those sites that owe their existence to games go to such lengths to help spread unconfirmed rumors that hurt games.
Click bait. imo
TequilaFire wrote: »There are a whole lot of ignorant comments after that article.
Mostly ESO hate by people that don't even have a clue!
If it really does come to the worst I'd rather ESO go B2P rather than F2P. I'd still prefer the sub model but GW2 and TSW have found success with the B2P model, selling useless cosmetics in their cash shops.
What ZOS could also introduce is a way to convert in-game currency or a special item for game time while still retaining a subscription. EVE does it, Wildstar does it and even WoW is thinking of doing it. It's a win-win situation. Everyone who wants to sub can stay subbed, while those who don't want to sub can collect these special items or trade their gold for gametime. Then everyone's happy.
If it really does come to the worst I'd rather ESO go B2P rather than F2P. I'd still prefer the sub model but GW2 and TSW have found success with the B2P model, selling useless cosmetics in their cash shops.
What ZOS could also introduce is a way to convert in-game currency or a special item for game time while still retaining a subscription. EVE does it, Wildstar does it and even WoW is thinking of doing it. It's a win-win situation. Everyone who wants to sub can stay subbed, while those who don't want to sub can collect these special items or trade their gold for gametime. Then everyone's happy.
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-removes-six-month-subs-f2p-rumours-abound/
Apparently someone at PCgamer still pays some attention to the forums here.
Maybe someone at ZoS might want to make a comment that is less than ambiguous.
If it really does come to the worst I'd rather ESO go B2P rather than F2P. I'd still prefer the sub model but GW2 and TSW have found success with the B2P model, selling useless cosmetics in their cash shops.
What ZOS could also introduce is a way to convert in-game currency or a special item for game time while still retaining a subscription. EVE does it, Wildstar does it and even WoW is thinking of doing it. It's a win-win situation. Everyone who wants to sub can stay subbed, while those who don't want to sub can collect these special items or trade their gold for gametime. Then everyone's happy.
There's no ESO live tomorrow. The next one is mid-january.ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »Maybe we will find out whats going on during ESO Live tomorrowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNiMwf4s0o
There's no ESO live tomorrow. The next one is mid-january.ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »Maybe we will find out whats going on during ESO Live tomorrowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNiMwf4s0o
ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »There's no ESO live tomorrow. The next one is mid-january.ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »Maybe we will find out whats going on during ESO Live tomorrowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNiMwf4s0o
Seriously? Cause the last one was the 19th. So the next one should be the 2nd.
ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »There's no ESO live tomorrow. The next one is mid-january.ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »Maybe we will find out whats going on during ESO Live tomorrowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNiMwf4s0o
Seriously? Cause the last one was the 19th. So the next one should be the 2nd.
Has the holiday season passed you by?
TequilaFire wrote: »There are a whole lot of ignorant comments after that article.
Mostly ESO hate by people that don't even have a clue!
I feel the same way actually, I mentioned the AoC model in another thread where subs get access to all content, so they don't notice the f2p/b2p stuff, but new players can level to max and do pvp minigames. All expansions, raids, and guild v guild pvp is for subs only.
Their cash shop does offer gear at an entry endgame level and leveling gear, and to me is works well.
Personally I like cash shops, like in TSW, with all kinds of nonsense I can buy, and I would like ESO to have one as well, but that's just me.
ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »There's no ESO live tomorrow. The next one is mid-january.ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »Maybe we will find out whats going on during ESO Live tomorrowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNiMwf4s0o
Seriously? Cause the last one was the 19th. So the next one should be the 2nd.
Has the holiday season passed you by?
No but every 2 weeks was what they where doing. I don't remember January 2nd being a Holiday. But yep she does say the 16th.
ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »There's no ESO live tomorrow. The next one is mid-january.ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »Maybe we will find out whats going on during ESO Live tomorrowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNiMwf4s0o
Seriously? Cause the last one was the 19th. So the next one should be the 2nd.
Has the holiday season passed you by?
No but every 2 weeks was what they where doing. I don't remember January 2nd being a Holiday. But yep she does say the 16th.
AlexDougherty wrote: »ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »There's no ESO live tomorrow. The next one is mid-january.ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »Maybe we will find out whats going on during ESO Live tomorrowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNiMwf4s0o
Seriously? Cause the last one was the 19th. So the next one should be the 2nd.
Has the holiday season passed you by?
No but every 2 weeks was what they where doing. I don't remember January 2nd being a Holiday. But yep she does say the 16th.
ESO Live may be broadcast Live (or whatever the term is, I used to use Podcast myself, but apparently that's wrong), but they spend several days getting everything ready.
Now if they did Broadcast tomorrow, even if they have fully recovered from New Years day, the preparation would be right and they would be getting everything wrong. Then they would have to apologise, do another ESO Live saying what the news actually is, apologise Again.
Or they could just wait until a week or two down the line, which is what they are doing.
Averya_Teira wrote: »ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »There's no ESO live tomorrow. The next one is mid-january.ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »Maybe we will find out whats going on during ESO Live tomorrowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNiMwf4s0o
Seriously? Cause the last one was the 19th. So the next one should be the 2nd.
Has the holiday season passed you by?
No but every 2 weeks was what they where doing. I don't remember January 2nd being a Holiday. But yep she does say the 16th.
They have the luxury of taking as long as they want for Holidays lol.
Alphashado wrote: »Games go F2P when they are losing subs. ESO is gaining just as many subs every day as it loses and I would dare to say that it appears the population is on the rise now due to the upcoming justice system and the champion system.
I have no factual numbers to back this up. It's just pure speculation based on what I see. There are more people in zones than there were a few months ago. There are a ton of new players just based on questions asked in zone and guild chat. I can still easily recruit 5-15 people per day for a trade guild to replace inactive accounts.
ESO is actually gaining in reputation and popularity.
There are plenty of people out there that would LOVE for ESO to go F2P just so they could point their finger and say "Ha! I told you so!"
If I remember correctly, PCgamer was at the top of the list when it came to bashing ESO at release.
It's interesting that WoW hasn't gone F2P even though it's been losing subs for years.
ESO will never be F2P. It might someday go B2P, but I don't see that in the near future and that is just my opinion. The only thing that concerns me are rumors that zos is struggling with consoles to implement a subscription agreement. I don't know much about it other that it's a rumor. But if for some reason they can't get a subscription model to work for the consoles, then we might have an issue. I haven't played console games for years. I'm curious: Are there any current console games that require a sub? <-- honest question.