This method is very appealing to people with a steady supply of entertainment dollars. The launch payment model was the traditional Pay To Play requiring customers to buy Game Time in order to access any content. They haven't created an overwhelmingly popular Raid Since the Rift and Helegrod.
#Did payday to go ftp tv#
To answer your question, the only reason Turbine went F2P is to make more money without regard to the changes that F2P would create in the game.įunny thing is, I spend 125.00 a month on Satellite TV (and 175.00 during the NFL season) I would have gladly paid 50-75 a month for LOTRO if they would have stayed the course keeping Tolkien's lore the main priority and continuing to create fun and exciting content. Updates and Expansions came regularly and they were for the most part pretty good. Prior to F2P Turbine had to make exciting, fun content for players so we would renew our subscriptions. You are absolutely right in saying the game had a different feel to it before F2P, it most certainly did. Let us not get nasty here because I do not want this thread locked. Was it the same game without the TP store?
What I wonder is why the game went FTP? I also wonder what it was like before FTP. This is a great game with a mature community to play with for the most part anyway. I enjoy playing and I am happy it did go FTP or otherwise I doubt I could play with the ecomony as it is. I admit I have started to play since the game went FTP and know nothing about how it was before. This is how understand it when I read posts made by lifers and people who have played for many years. It sounds like it had a different feel about it back then. I think the implementation of F2P in LOTRO is better than in other converted games (AoC etc.) and hence more successful.Īs I understand it this game was really great before FTP. For the overall health of the game it was the right move. The game certainly was not dying, there were fewer players that's all. Well maybe a little, it has given me more people to group with as there is a larger player population then there was prior to the game going F2P. It has given me more storage and cosmetic options but it has not changed how I play the game one bit. For me as a life time member the store has not really changed how I play. If you think the complaints about the store are bad you should have been around when they added rune keepers. It still takes place in Middle Earth and there are still a percentage of the players that complain about everything the developers do.
#Did payday to go ftp free#
They went free to play because they found the conversion so successful when they did it for DDO they wanted to get the same increase in players and revenue for LOTRO.Īs someone who has played the game since it went live the feel of the game has not really changed much. I have more then enough points to get these.į2p didn't ruin the game, the game is as good as ever, f2p ruined the community.Īs I understand it most players do not even look at the forums, nor post here. Maybe once each time there is a new level cap. The relic removal scrolls? I have never used one and probably never will. Really, what's in the shop worth more then 500 points a month that a subscriber needs really?
#Did payday to go ftp how to#
New people come to the game asking around how to get as many things as possible for free.Ī subscriber who stays away from the forum and the public chat channels will hardly notice that the game is f2p.īefore the change one would buy a magazine to get a promo code for the shared vault, now he spends a few TPs (which he can earn in game and gets 500 of each month) and gets the same. We blame Turbine for trying to make money. If we don't like a new change, we blame the shop. We talk about the advantages and disadvantages of having items in the shop.
We have that stupid shop in every discussion. What changed is how peopel talk about Lotro. One can perfectly play the game as a subscriber without ever visiting the shop and it's just like the way it was before. Sure, the shop button flashes everywhere and they try to rub in our faces that we should buy more.īut the game itself? It didn't change much. TBH f2p did not change much for subscribers. One might like the f2p changes or not, but they saved the game. When I joined, the servers were almost empty. It was a great game, great for Tolkien fans, but it was about to die.
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