Comments on: What I’m not playing: LotRO

By: HarbingerZero

HarbingerZero — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:49:21 +0000

Thanks for the linkage, he has some great posts on the subject and links to even more.

I don’t mind buying adventure packs as a model, but to me, that model is not F2P and shouldn’t be advertized as such, at least when everyone else’s F2P can be played without an investment like that.

By: flosch

flosch — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:36:21 +0000

And honestly, I really like the basic idea of Turbine’s F2P, although I’d never call it free-to-play: you buy the content you want to consume, when you want to consume it. Adventure packs are, in my mind, a great way of organizing a non-subscription game.

Of course, there are some practical issues with the setup. It seems Turbine can’t live from adventure pack sales alone, so they try to get you to buy all kinds of other stuff, which can get slightly annoying.

By: flosch

flosch — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:27:33 +0000

No, can’t say much about FW. Never tried it. Though, the last things I heard were basically about people making lots of money with the FW system, sometimes barely out of exploit territory.

The problem as I perceive it is that FW is very unbalanced when it comes to the four militias. My impression is that it’s a positive feedback loop, in that the more successful militias produce more benefits for their members (by upgrading their held system, which greatly reduces LP and ISK prices on items from the stores), attracting even more members and further increasing the benefits.

That leads to Minmatar completely dominating Amarr, and to a lesser degree Cldari dominating Gallente. So unless you strongly feel about one faction, there is absolutely no reason not to join Minmatar and run plexes day in and out to make money. Not sure how much that actually has to do with PvP, though…

Small gang and solo PvP master Azual Skoll wrote a short post about his view on the current state of affairs on his blog just last week: http://www.evealtruist.com/2012/08/faction-warfare-logical-outcome.html

By: HarbingerZero

HarbingerZero — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:08:30 +0000

The Warden is my brother’s favorite class, and I understand he’s back in the game these days, thought he didn’t mention any class changes. I haven’t gone back for the simple reason that I am not a fan of their current F2P model. Nobody else is charging me for basic PvE quests by zone – and as a result, this is the only F2P game that I’ve seen that isn’t really.

Speaking of games you do play….have you had any experience with Factional Warfare in EVE? I’d love to hear your take on it, I’m considering a return just to try out the overhaul they did on it.