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Age of Conan: Unchained: F2P Option Retooled
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
Funcom has announced that players taking advantage of Age of Conan's free to play option will now have new benefits added to help them enjoy their play time. Among other things, Funcom has unlocked all character classes for F2Pers.
All Classes Unlocked! Free players may now try any of the games classes completely free.
Classic Dungeons unlocked! The complete selection of classic dungeons are now unlocked for free play. This includes ALL the pre-80 dungeons and a selection of level 80 dungeons as well! Level 80 adventures in The Crow's Nest, The Iron Tower, Xibaluku, The Slaughterhouse Cellar and Attilius' Mansion are all now available for free play!
Gold cap increased! In order to allow free players to engage more in the end game economy, in particular with the incoming new crafting system in mind, the gold cap on free accounts has been raised from 2g to 10g.
Read the full announcement on the Age of Conan site.
Thanks, Marz.at.Play, for the tip!
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Wow , i guess this makes me wanna try for sure this time, cause the limitations were kinda bad before
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Humm, I wonder if CCP folks might be getting abit nervous.
MAGA
AoC has 50k players or less, and is in an entirely different genre of game from Eve. Why would CCP be nervous?
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
All of the game company's deciding to go F2P.
MAGA
Still need to pay for the expansion area (lvl 80 bit)...then NO
Not planning on paying for something that should be free, i dont mind the other things your supposed to pay for but come on..every lvl 80 area is locked down
My feelings exactly.
You've never paid for an expansion before?
This is good news..I might actually give it a shot !
The problem with this game, you are channeled everywhere. I did not mind the character restrictions nor the gold, although it would have been a pain at higher levels.
I wish them luck, but I found the game less interesting to play than most of the other themepark fantasy games.
"channeled everywhere" ? what could that mean
[mod edit] He is talking about the issue in which customers who paid for the expansion are asked to pay for it again in order for it to be unlocked (and only weekly and for each zone seperately). So they are taking something away from you which you have already paid for and putting it behind a paywall and that is unacceptable.
I won't be going back unless they change this and find a solution for AA.
exactly. well presented.
aside though from your points, there is the whole question of game viability in an f2p game, if the community of players is split too much. for a successful community to develop the game needs to provide as consistent an experience as is viable for both paying and nonpaying customers. there's no point in having a surge in players if the community can't play a significant segment of content together.
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"There are at least two kinds of games.
One could be called finite, the other infinite.
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,
an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play."
Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
Just to clarify this for you : They did not take anything away from you. When game went f2p it was made perfectly clear that RotGS would remain available for subscribers only with an option for free players to access the content via weekly passes regardless of you buying the expansion previously or not.
Would it be better if they implemented something like the new TSW business model ? Probably yes, but it is what it is at the moment. What if Blizzard suddenly decided to extend WoW's f2p trial to include every expansion but MoP which would remain available for subbers only ?
I can guarantee that lots of people would happily drop their subscriptions and would still be complaining that Blizzard took away MoP from them (for those who paid for that expansion) when it would be clear from the beginning that MoP would not be part of the deal.
Sorry, but the truth is many people read or hear F2P and they immediately see themselves having access to everything without having to pay a cent, ever. Have you heard the saying : "Give them an inch, they want a mile". I think it's perfectly valid in this case.
As for your AA concern, people who bought the RotGS expansion have access to the full AA system in AoC under the f2p model. The only option in the AA system unavailable for free players who own the expansion is the time trained feature.
Nice but not nice enough to help AoC out.
Players will still need to sub to enjoy AA's and RoTG expansion even if they bought it.
They'd be better off by removing the sub limitations of those, like, buy perks/content from shop and they would be unlocked for ever without the need to sub.
As it is now, F2P is still a free "trial" with end game locked by sub.
But, if Funcom thinks AoC is doing well like this, more power to them.
It's been going on for a while...
CCP has no real need to feel nervous. They're perhaps the only MMO on the market that isn't susceptable to the F2P gains. There aren't any other games like Eve, and so Eve players don't get to choose between a sub game or another no-sub game. Add that to the fact that CCP reward you for succeeding by allowing you to play F2P through PLEX (and how it offers a legitimate form of RMT), and there should be no nerves at CCP.
And stop with the cat picture ;(
I quit somewhere around level 40 partly because I'd have to pay to see the asian zone(s). The main reason was how tedious leveling was after Tortage.
Can you go to every zone and level to the cap? Or are latest expansions locked?
AoC uses MEGA-channelling. Everywhere you are there's at least a 2nd copy of the world active with players in it. Tortage has about 10-15 channels available (depending on time of day). This makes it a pain to find parties or even players...
I'm thinking about starting up a Clan again anyone down i just reinstalled got my toons up and running again