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Phase I of Alpha Two testing will occur on weekends. Each weekend is scheduled to start on Fridays at 10 AM PT and end on Sundays at 10 PM PT. Find out more here.
Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
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Also I'm sorry I just noticed how old this thread was but I've already typed this so, posting. >.>....
Is that honestly to much to ask for game?
I'd rather pay 50c a day and get all the benefits of a dedicated community and services.
then a F2P troll fest, broken economy and imbalances.
The Lazy Peon explains this well in a youtube video about why the MMORPG genre is dying. To put it frankly, new gamers stick with MOBAS and not MMORPGS. F2P was an incentive to get new gamers into mmorpgs, but it causes the game to be watered down, and eventually Pay to win.
To keep this genre going we need to focus on the desires of the community who cares about MMORPGS. If their desires are met, they will pay for the subscription.
The average age of MOBA players is 16-21. Hence f2p.
The average age of MMORPGS is 25+.....if you can't affford $15 a month, you should really be getting your priorities straight before playing hours of gameplay anyways. (not wanting to be too harsh)
Of course you'd have to spend hours pushing your car to the park, because you used up the gas they gave you "free" just starting it and driving out if the driveway. You then go out of your way to avoid the main roads everyone else is using, and finally getting to the same location having done waaaay more work.
All to just sit around and jerk yourself in the end.
Yup, that's Archeage.
Intrepid has already stated that they wont be doing this no P2W and it will be a sub fee. But they have stated they have over 22,000 backers before an alpha has been released. It shows that there is a player base willing to pay for a sub. Its too early to say the game will die in a few months especially since they will release 2019-2020.
By paying a sub it puts up a good barrier in which people are paying for a service, where they will get content at a steady pace. While to some extent eliminating issues regarding trolls etc that plague free to play games. While it also does guarantee that you will be playing with someone who owns a credit card, it will also limit the underage players eliminating some of the headaches that come with that as well.
As a positive suggestion instead of repeating the negative ones that have been listed above: If you cant make the sub payment, start referring friends to the game to supplement the difference or the whole thing that way it becomes in a sense free to play for you.
Hope this helps
Just go Pirate, they have nothing to spend labor on apparently.
Stolen fish are turned in for free!
I'm now convinced you have no clue what your talking about.
Good day sir.
Games need revenue to sustain themselves. Which means F2P games need MTX to sustain themselves, and they need ways to encourage people to pay for those MTX. More often than not this leads to P2W mechanics because why pay $10 for a level boost when I can just grind my way there....unless the grind is so punitive that you'd rather spend the cash for the MTX rather than grind out the XP (ie: p2w).
To be fair there are a few that resist the temptation to spend money on FTP / PTW and I could see why these people would they get what they can from a game then move on to the next. The force is strong with these ones and a a very rare few.
The rest I have no clue. They must have missed that old proverb that nothing in life comes for free, well maybe except true love.
FTP is a deception tactic used by soulless companies to draw people in and introduce things like RNG cash loot gambling., which thankfully some countries and at least 1 senator I know are trying to make illegal. FTP has been a bane in the gaming industry.
FTP: It starts out great and fun at the lower levels, which does not require money or grind, things are handed out easily and for free.
Micro Transactions: As the games progresses towards the begging mid stage the grind for progression starts getting real and it starts out with small cash Micro Transactions to provide an advantage and lower the amount of grind. By now a lot of people are getting used to spending a small amount of cash "often", and are hooked. Now people look at their bank statement at ask how the hell they spent so much money, as well as Time. These companies are skilled in developing habitual and additive behavior. At his point people are wondering why they are still playing but they have spent so much money and time they find it hard to quit.
PTW: Pay to win is usually introduced between these two stages. Items can be purchased to give advantages over other players not spending money at the mid level Micro-transaction stage this is where Micro-transactions or not so small anymore people start spending larger amounts of money at this point to progress to really large amounts like $99 for one transaction.
Pay Wall: Now as the games get quite interesting and people are most likely addicted they introduce what many players call a PAY WALL. There is no way to progress without spending money or the grind becomes unbearable if you do not spend money. This part of the game the companies hardly pump out any worthwhile content they just keep introducing cash shop bling casue they know that most players at this stage of the game are hooked and will keep playing and paying even tho they are angry and know they shouldn't. These games are now at the stage where they CASH GRAB from CASH COWS and Whales.
FTP = Micro-transactions = PTW = Greedy Cash Grab = Spend More Money than Sub or BTP.
Game policies are made by investors and not game developers. All they care about is money.
People will often spend more money on FTP in 1 to 2 months than they would have in a 6 to 1 year subscription.
Because many people have fallen into this trap over and over and gone back to game companies they swore they never would games like SWBF2 comes out where people are paying $60 to purchase the game but has also still has PTW aspects for a game people spent that amount on.
So the problem is not just the Greedy companies, truthfully most of the fault falls to people that continue to feed Companies like EA, Activision Capcom, etc.... Thankfully more and more people are Fed up with the FTP deception that uses MT, PTW and PayWall.
We should be thrilled and crying tears of joy that Intrepid Studios, wants to produce a meaningful Sub based game that is not PTW. A game where decisions are made by the Developers that care about the game not Corporate investors that only want your money.
Thank You Intrepid for bringing us Ashes of Creation.
Now a New Hope rises from the Ashes of Creation.
I want to support IS too. Subs are imo the best route for what the community here really wants. I do understand wanting it for free, but if you only play a month and really don't like it, consider the 15.00$ you paid a sort of complaining fee to be here and tell everyone how much you hate the game you are no longer playing
Not only that but you are helping the devs create more content to provide even more entertainment. Do you think WoW would be 14 years running if they were P2W or F2P? Hell no they wouldn't.
These days I don't even look at an MMO if I see F2P.