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Hey guys,
I'm giving some SERIOUS thought to going back on the 16th when the new payment model opens. Been missing the hell outta this game, and I found the year named emu hollow and lacking when I tried it once upon a time.
Any word on what the 4 races and 4 classes available with freebie playing are? I'm probably going to pay to unlock a few combos or just full out sub to play the combos I used to love but would like to know what the freemiums get since I know a few co-workers who started mmo'ing in WoW are looking forward to trying the classic.
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Not sure yet, but you should be able to play your old characters as well. They did at least for EQ2 allow you to unlock older chars.
I personally think SOE are a bit to greedy with the F2P model but it wont cost you anything to try it out. And I just base that on what they did with EQ2, I have no clue about EQ.
Details on Free to Play here: http://www.everquest.com/free/
The four free races included with FREE and Silver Memberships are: Human, Erudite, Barbarian and Gnome.
The four free classes included with FREE and Silver Memberships are: Warrior, Cleric, Wizard, and Rogue.
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Races:
Human, Barbarian, Erudite, Gnome (AKA human, big human, bald human, short humanoid)
Classes:
Warrior, Cleric, Wizard, Rogue - a much shorter selection than EQ2's freebies
Not sure where I saw it now, but I believe that characters created before the FTP changeover are grandfathered out of these race and class restrictions. Though the slots-per-server limits will probably still apply, so you likely will have to pick and choose which of your old characters you want to play.
I just started playing again after a 5 year break. All I can say is: I am hooked again. Btw. I have a couple of friends who have never played eq. Last week I told them to download the game and make themselves an account - guess what? They didnt have to enter any payment details or game keys, it would seem that F2P has already started. They are playing happily on my server as I write this. Try it out!
You can please some MMO-players all of the time and you can please all MMO-players some of the time but you can't please all MMO-players all of the time.
That's correct, if you have characters created already, they are grandfathered in. So the restrictions only apply to new F2P accounts.
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from the faq
http://www.everquest.com/free/
- Races and Classes: Any character you created before February 29th 2012 will be playable regardless of race or class.
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