Free trial up to level 20

Good evening.

I don't know if this is the right place for my thread but I hope this upcoming MMORPG will have a free trial up to level 20 like World of Warcraft. I was excited when I saw the graphics but I didn't like it when I found out that the game is not for everyone. I don't know why we're in 2020 and there are no new free to play MMORPGs in North America but I don't blame the developers this is their game.

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Flashman

Jude wrote: »

Good evening.

I don't know if this is the right place for my thread but I hope this upcoming MMORPG will have a free trial up to level 20 like World of Warcraft. I was excited when I saw the graphics but I didn't like it when I found out that the game is not for everyone. I don't know why we're in 2020 and there are no new free to play MMORPGs in North America but I don't blame the developers this is their game.

@Jude New games generally don't give free trials... because they don't have to. Free trials are something that games introduce when they're not doing so well, and need to boost the population in general, and hopefully convert some of those players to paying customers. Consider the problems that free trials bring, most notably gold selling accounts, and it's just not worth a game studios time to give free trials. That is, until it needs to.

grisu

I think the 15€ - no boxprice is the most entry friendly idea that has come out from a game in ages. 15€ for a month long trial is acceptable for an mmo. Imo

We talked in general of ways to demo an mmo and we thought it might be not the worst idea to actually make a demo. Something like a weekly event or something where you have a raid with a decked out group of simplified character templates.
A scrippted bossbattle or even a full raid with like 30 AI characters and 10 players or something where you can look at the general feel of how combat might flow and a class might feel.
For Ashes itself you could just as well make it into a scripted siege defense/attack were you work with your AI group completing objectives and such.
It could rotate weekly or every other day that you can sign up for and look at different classes/templates and see if the general feel of the game hits you.

DrEpoch

You're all forgetting simple counter measures to trial accounts. Like: Limited chat, No trading, level restrictions, node restrictions, citizenship restrictions, limited cosmetic shop, limited storage, currency, etc etc.

I see unneeded expenses on Intrepid's side of things, but an alive game is an alive game. More player movement will give that feeling of a living breathing world.

With this, you can't infinitely farm resources to amass money before using credit card fraud to pawn off the accounts resources gained from free trial, and with restrictions, will allow real people to try the game and decide if it's for them, vs trying to get their measly $15 back. You can think of other things that could limit a trial account, and I agree with both sides. $15 not alot of money lol.

Atama

Fooshyy wrote: »

You're all forgetting simple counter measures to trial accounts. Like: Limited chat, No trading, level restrictions, node restrictions, citizenship restrictions, limited cosmetic shop, limited storage, currency, etc etc.

If you think that works you’ve never played WoW.

In WoW, the spammers use trial accounts to have their freebie characters spell out spam with their bodies. No, seriously.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yHTiK1zvzFY

It’s not rare, I’ve seen it in Ironforge. The first time I saw it, at first I was confused, then horrified. If you let in trial accounts, that’s the crap you’re going to get. Don’t even think about it.

Flashman

Atama wrote: »

It’s not rare, I’ve seen it in Ironforge. The first time I saw it, at first I was confused, then horrified. If you let in trial accounts, that’s the crap you’re going to get. Don’t even think about it.

Correct. Said it in my earlier reply, and now boosting the signal on this reply. Freebie accounts are bad news, both in the sense they usually indicate a game's not doing so well (and I don't need to explain why that's bad news, surely?), plus all the potential downsides with spammers, gold farmers, etc. Agree 110% @Atama.

Plateau

That's actually hilarious. I wouldn't even be mad.

Flashman

leonerdo wrote: »

That's actually hilarious. I wouldn't even be mad.

And that's fine. That's your call. But what I think you would find more broadly is that when people are paying a $15/month fee for a game, it's precisely to lock that sort of stuff away - as much as possible at least.

arodicus

Jude wrote: »

Good evening.

I don't know if this is the right place for my thread but I hope this upcoming MMORPG will have a free trial up to level 20 like World of Warcraft. I was excited when I saw the graphics but I didn't like it when I found out that the game is not for everyone. I don't know why we're in 2020 and there are no new free to play MMORPGs in North America but I don't blame the developers this is their game.

There aren’t any plans for a free trial from anything mentioned to date. The awesome thing about this game is there is no box price. WoW has a box price you have to pay to play the game which is why they added (after many years) a free to play to 20 service. Originally you had to pay the $50 to buy the game box and it came with a 30 day sub. That was your trial time unless someone gave you a 7 day free trial code. With ashes you pay $15 play for 30 days if you don’t like it don’t sub again. There won’t ever be expansions you have to buy or anything like that it’s always available if you pay your subscription

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