Everquest F2P March 2012

[Insanecyclone]

http://www.everquest.com/free/

EQ2 worked out okay in the f2p transition, but I'm not sure how EQ will.

I'll be playing it.

[Intervention]

I would love if they introduce another progression server. The pure nostalgia of playing an initially expansionless server would be nice, at least for a little while.

[Jacuzzi]

The restrictions are a little rough for free-silver accounts, but I guess they gotta do what they gotta do to make people pay. Still though, it's about time this happened. Should've went 'freemium' years ago.

[Intervention]

I can see them taking their time into making it f2p, because they made their money back long ago and people were still willing to pay a monthly subscription.

[Intervention]

Found a link on Reddit to help people starting fresh on EQ when it goes f2p Friday.

http://www.ectmmo.com/2012/03/everqu...ter-guide.html

[Kaisha]

The restrictions are a little rough for free-silver accounts, but I guess they gotta do what they gotta do to make people pay. Still though, it's about time this happened. Should've went 'freemium' years ago.

This is my beef with it currently, and the same issue I have with DCUO. Silver accounts are fine and all, but it's just such a jump in price to go from paying nothing, to $15 monthly just to have access to everything, except EQ1 is even more restrictive unless you want to shell out for the not-free class/races.

Not sure why they can't offer a middle-man subscription price. Half the fee monthly, but access to generally more stuff.

I can't see limiting classes being healthy for the actual game itself also. At any rate, stuck waiting on my password reset to go through so I can bump my account (played it for a month years ago, then tried it again via a free trial) down to silver since they automatically made it a gold, and I can't get info if it's set to auto-recurring or not.

[Insanecyclone]

F2P client is out and it's not a streaming client like EQ2. Enjoy that 8gb dl, sigh.