*Until you reach the point where we require payment for you to progress.
Help me understand why it’s still being called and advertised as “Free to Play”. I’ve already proven that to be a fallacy. Why does the commercial purposely mislead people? It’s free until you reach about level 10 (can anyone confirm the exact point in content?) and need to move beyond the initial experience.
“But you can grind to get points then buy quests!”
Stop and listen to yourself. GRIND…. to BUY…. LotRO’s QUESTS… First of all, grinding to quest is in itself a ridiculous statement. Second, LotRO’s quests are 90% grinding anyway. Third, you’re probably one of the same people who rejoice in the ability to buy from the cash shop items which allow you to circumvent the original grinding! I know that half of the people out there are being hypocritical on this issue.
The honest truth here that I’m sure is backed up with real statistics of “F2P” games is that most players will burn out grinding for points before they actually achieve enough to play for free. There’s a decent outline here of how someone can play to about level 25 without needing to spend any money. The reality is, most people will probably subscribe (as suggested in that guide) in order to be able to have an easier time playing for free (derp). It won’t take long for the player to run out of content again and be so burned out that they cancel.
There will be immense player turnover from this, but that’s how this model works. Turbine knows that. If they can get a ton of people to spend $5 then that’s already better than having a few people spend $15. That might be “good business” but that’s not good game management.
“The Adventure is Free” <– That is a bold-faced lie. Stop eating it up.
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One Comment
Umm, first of all it IS a f2p game. Think about it. What does f2p stand for? “Free to play.” not “Free to play and access everything.” Also, you CAN level up all the way to lvl 65 without grinding tp at all, it would just take years of playint to do so (running skirms and such). So get your facts right.
And I don’t know why you think lvl 10 is the cap for free players, the cap is at the moment lvl 32, which you can achieve on two accounts. They also give you full access to housing, mounts, crafting, and hobbies.
Do you really want them to design a game as well-made and indepth as LOTRO completely free to play? What’s gonna keep the servers running and content coming out? They have to make money some way, pal, and this way is way better than forcing everybody to subscribe for any and all content. LOTRO has more content than almost any other f2p mmo i’ve played, so stop complaining…
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