What do you guys think about a monthly subscription based server without trading, marketing or storage limits?
I really feel this game needs this at least as a try.
F2p is a sick model that feeds on the addiction of the people that most supports the game. I’m not one of those poor souls. When I notice I can’t progress with reasonable effort I’ll just quit knowing it wasn’t because I’m bad at MMO’s, but essentially because I was playing a f2p game.
Ideally I would pay $ 60 for base games and then for expansions (similar to current WoW model).
That’s fair to developers that get the exact sum of money for their exact timeframe of development (fixing/balancing doesn’t count since it is implied that any product should be sold in ‘perfect’ state). And fair to players that won’t feel like cheating since there’s no stupid stuff like buying in game currency with real money.
The next excuse companies running MMO’s generally have is that they have to pay for the servers. They could either cover this expenses with expansions or in the worst case make a subscription in a similar model to PSN/Live (1 year low cost subscription). I believe like $ 30/year is more then enough (in US. Here in Brazil it would have to be less, like 60 BRL at most, because that’s how proportionally the games cost here - in Steam at least), considering the quality of the service would build up a huge community and revenue consequently.
If ToS was running smooth in my machine (with no fps drops and no input/server lag) I would definitely consider paying in one of the methods above, because the game is kinda broken right now but I believe they will fix it.
But of course all that talk would require them to remove the stupid fees everywhere, and significantly low the cost of some core gameplay functions like skill/stat reset, passive skill and gear leveling. I mean, they would have to re-balance the whole game for a non f2p experience.
If the lag or FPS issue running smooth on SEA server and paying for a little of fees to support the game is not a bad idea…
P2W and Lag problem can killed a MMORPG and that how it goes in global market…
Please allow transfer before that happened. While I paid for the EA and purchased several DLC, I don’t really want to be stuck in a b2p server.