Please don't make ESO F2P I cant afford a F2P game
fredarbonab14_ESO wrote: »Please don't make ESO F2P I cant afford a F2P game
They have zero intention to go F2P, why? Because they are not stupid, and they know that doing so will put the game in the ~same~ playing field as with most other MMO games that jumped into that wagon in the last 2-3 years, and will have to compete the same way with all of them; meaning less content and start nickeling and diming your way back to profitability. Meaning no separation from every other competitor.
'IF' posts always are so much fun because everyone gets to make a speech on something that hasn't happened, nor will.
maharao_ESO wrote: »F2P would be a death sentence, as it has been for other games. Fear of that is why I am glad there is no "lifer" option, as I have been badly burned with lifetime subscriptions top other games that went to trash with the F2P conversion.
ESO has some benefits an game like SWTOR don't have, first they have an decent publisher, we all know EA would start pushing new rushed elder scroll games every second year after oblivion sold well.fredarbonab14_ESO wrote: »Please don't make ESO F2P I cant afford a F2P game
They have zero intention to go F2P, why? Because they are not stupid, and they know that doing so will put the game in the ~same~ playing field as with most other MMO games that jumped into that wagon in the last 2-3 years, and will have to compete the same way with all of them; meaning less content and start nickeling and diming your way back to profitability. Meaning no separation from every other competitor.
'IF' posts always are so much fun because everyone gets to make a speech on something that hasn't happened, nor will.
I wouldn't dismiss the f2p boogeyman out of hand. It's draw is powerful and the bottom line always rules in the end
Google disagree, no you probably don't see much gold seller spam as they have good filters. You don't see gold spam in wow either.
Google disagree, no you probably don't see much gold seller spam as they have good filters. You don't see gold spam in wow either.
You saw lot in ESO because they did not had filters, you still have some as the filters are not good enough.
Same with bots, bot prevention programs moves bots out of sight where they are not reported and chased.
Rapscallion74 wrote: »I dont want the game to go F2P either, but I fear it is inevitable. ZOS simply does not have their act together and I fear it's going to bite them in the butt.What makes you say this?
They've been extremely forthright and transparent about their efforts to address known issues, from bots to bugs. They've even had GMs manually making rounds through dungeons to ban bots in front of people, in recent days.
Additionally, I saw a lot of earnest passion in the State of the Game Address that Matt Firor gave. It's unusual to see such a human response from a large company like Zenimax, but certainly not a bad thing.
All evidence I see suggests that the developers of this game have a vested interest in seeing it succeed for more than monetary reasons.
IronMaiden_burnout wrote: »If it goes F2P soon it will be to combat the mega BOT problem we have here. By going F2P it would kill off a good 90% of the online gold markets for this game. leaving the rest of them to scrounge whatever people are not buying from the cash shops.
F2P models are a gold sellers nightmare, so look to this happening much sooner than you all think because as it is, they will never win this fight.
I still firmly believe that consoles will be a massive winner for Zeni. PC's made up 14% of total sales for Skyrim, consoles made up the rest.
So realistically the market is much larger for them on consoles based upon these numbers.
I do not think it will go F2P, the day it does is the day that Zeni finished listening to the feedback from it's player, and by feedback I mean, constructive feedback not,
" this isn't WOW, make it like WoW or I rage/quits" type of feedback.
No mmo is worth 15 a month today. Its been an inflated charge for years now. The hardware to run mmo's today is alot better than the hardware of 99/2000. Back then the charge was justified. Why is it that a 500 dollar pc today would have cost 3 or 4 thousand dollars back in 99/2000. The hardware is improving faster than the software. Yet we are still paying the sub.fee of 99/2000.I dont think this game is going f2p. However, I honestly do not think it's current state is worth the $15 a month.