Tree of Savior Forum

Why not B2P? (/15char)

General Discussion
#1

Leaving problens that can be fixed aside (like server instability, wich seens that will never be fixed sadly), the biggest enemy of this game in my point of view are the bots/gold sellers.

And as everyone that played other games before, the fight against bots is a hard fight and probably will never end, but its a fight that can be fought a little better by IMC if they make the game B2P.

Why? Nowadays money is the best way I can think of to disencourage bots and legit players of using these metods, and, would encourage IMC to hire someone only for banning bot since every new bot account would be $$ in their pockets.

The price could be something fair like $10 that comes with a token (untradable?) and maybe one welcome headgear or something like that.

#2

There were a lot of bots back during pay to play. It might help, but they need the players. Also if they want to make it complete pay to play then we will be expecting A LOT better service than what we have right now, including server side issues.

#3

I spent a lot more than $10 already do i get a refund?

#4

Yes, but as long as they have to pay to create account maybe the plague can be contained a little better. And im talking about a one payment only, not a montly fee.

I spent a lot more than $10 already do i get a refund?

What? So did I, cant see your point.

#5

Way too many F2Ps out there, if you force people to drop cash up front you’re in disadvantage next to almost every other MMORPG out there.
This isn’t a problem for big studios, but that’s not the case here…

#6

If it got rid of all the annoying restrictions it’d improve the game overall. Subs are lame.

#7

I’m against it mainly because more players / shorter dungeon wait times is more important for me than getting rid of bots that hardly ever affect my gameplay at all.

#8

those bot and gold seller probably just use stolen credit card to create new account
let say, if IMC going to charge high price, hardly any ppl pay
if they charge it too low, they wont be making money for expansion and update

#9

its interesting that people still think b2p is the solution/slowdown bots
f2p=more money for imc
look at the amount of tokens in the market

#10

WoW has always been B2P and subscription required… and they’ve always had bot/gold seller problems.

#11

no, this game was p2p, and it had bots even during the p2p time.

#12

People think there can be a solution to get rid of all the botters. There is no way to get rid of all the botters.

But B2P systems make an account ban actually do something. Every time someone is banned for botting, they have to pay to get the game again. Right now there’s no penalty at all for a ban for botters and plenty of incentive to come back and resume botting.

Tree of Savior has way too many money sinks such as enchanting or equipment upgrading or even just buying reagents for spells. Plus there’s serious RNG just to get items and these items are expensive as hell in the market. With so many money sinks and RNG, it fosters an environment rich with people who are buying RMT because ya know, “Ain’t nobody got time fo’ dat” when it comes to grinding silver.

I think Tree of Savior could be changed in such a way where buying RMT isn’t such a huge benefit to a player to help calm down the amount of buyers here.