MaestroMavius

Oh, I wasn't really chiming in on the whole typo debate. The wrdos being out of sync yet easily read posts made me think of the 'Did you see' videos is all.

I make typos in game constantly, though my most common one is capitalizing the first two letters, as my finger is slow to come off the shift key. REsulting in sentences looking like this.

I don't bother to correct that though. Usually the only time I bother to correct myself on typos is when it's so bad the word is nonsense.
I don't use shorthand, unless it's dire and in the heat of battle, Then I'll shorten as needed.

Simple yes, SCR not withstanding, yet we've been shouting that to anyone that would listen since Beta and lo and behold here we are.

They seem content to pass off free trials as F2P just because you can go 1-50. The same restrictions used for free trials, can't be used for F2P.
All that does is make the ones that originally tried a trial and didn't stay to get miffed and leave again.

If we want to assimilate the true new, we have to be able to communicate with them in a reasonable fasion. All the restrictions do at this point is bred ill will, hurt our rep and widen further the increasing sense of 'Us Vs Them'. Don't give free players control of the airwaves but at least let them reply to us...

No RMT excuse can counter that, so the only reason the Dev's won't is either SCR or because they feel it's that big an enticement to pop $5 for points. I'm sorry but it's not an enticement, it's a barrier. Not only that, the majority of 'True new' won't even know how cheap it is and will no doubt leave long before finding out, we can't freely tell them either.

I understand fully that we aren't F2P. I understand the hybrid structure. Most free players could care less. They saw the words Free to Play and assumed the game was now micro-trans based ala Shaiya.

We technically have no 'Free Play' tier. It's misleading wording designed to be misleading.
We have 3 tiers.
ViP
Premium
Trial

The fact that you can now go from 1-50 doesn't make this more than a 'trial'. Not when you lock out everything else. For that matter, the old free trials actually had more, though you could only level to 14 you could use any AT. No, this game is not F2P. It's free to look around and let us twist your arm long enough to get, at the very least, 5 bucks from you. Then you'll be Premium and can actually play the game.. for free.

Sadly, I understand that we aren't F2P in the mainstream PoV. I do, but they don't. We could educate them on our hyrbid model. We could, but we aren't allowed to unless we're standing right next to them.

/Facepalm

Indeed. It's a merry go round of misconceptions.

This so much! I'd also like a glove that looks like a regular animal paw with claws.

Might as well go ahead and delete that tab outright. That or rename it Spam. Trying to catch the one legitimate question in the flurry of junk isn't going to be feasible in a few days time.

Pessimistically though that might mean that they meant to put it in the store instead.



Sorry, I had to. I actually expect them to be free as well.

So far for me Freedom stands at;

Gained 1 returned friend. 1 brand new friend playing
Lost 2 potential returnees. Still trying to convince 1 other friend to 'give it a shot'.

The one friend that returned, he was a high enough tier to have everything he wanted, having played for 3 years off/on. Freedom impressed him so much he went ahead and resubbed AND plunked $15 on the store for bling!!!
The other one is in informational overload. Having never played an MMO before it's slow going, so the restrictions don't matter as much.
I really wish he had /Tells though, and ability to accept my dang influence trade...

Having to go all the way back to the core fundamentals for him, I mean core as in W is forward, Conning etc. Makes me realize just how complex our game has become over the years. We evolved with it so we take it for granted how daunting learning all this could be to new players.
We take it for granted.

Keep that in mind when arguing over the restrictions on true new. It's nearly impossible for us to grasp how daunting this game might seem to those unfamiliar with it. I'm overly emphasing that there isn't a rush, take your time so he doesn't get discouraged and go back to farmville. However, this is with a real life friend. Bridging the gap with complete strangers takes more.

We need more ways to assimilate the new players into out ranks Dev's. Get with marketing, do what you have to. You have a tremendous free resource in recruiting through us, the ViP's. Consider creation of a channel specifically for Free players, if nothing else it will ease the clutter on Help.

I understand that it only cost $5 to unlock these chat functions. I understand this but they do not. I have no easy way of communicating that fact to them either. If a $5 transaction could potentially cost my company $100's by 'turning them away at the door' then I'm going to waive that fee.

I'm not saying give them free reign over the air-waves either. Being able to /Tell and having a dedicated channel with the ability to accept trades would be more than enough!

Helper title is not only useless as it currently stands, it's actually dangerous. Help me should be avail to all at creation. Helper should be earned somehow, perhaps even monitored. I shudder at how many griefers are sporting Helper titles these days.