[Idea] Fast Free No Register to Play
Who would be the audience? Gamers who find setting up games to be too difficult? Spammers?
If you want a generic character just arrow through the screens without selecting any options. As to registering, many web sites want you to register and ask for an email address, you can always use a throwaway gmail account too.
The very thing of that idea is to make as many people as possible to try this game, just make first glance at it.
All the limitations you’ve mentioned here would make me more likely to just register for a f2p account if I’m brutally honest.
Also, if I was put on a random EU server, it’d be so nice not to have a bloody clue what everyone was saying considering some of them are language specific. That’d really make me want to stick with the game.
dragons, I sometimes wonder if we’ll ever find a way to save us from ourselves.”
This doesn’t make much sense at all, the target audience for this would be people who you don’t want anyways.
However there is a silver lining in your post, regardless of if it was your intent.
They could create a separate client/account for those who are interested in only PvP. Since sPvP is almost completely separate from the rest of the game, you could allow a on demand client that allows the player to only exist within EoTM, they could expand this to the WvW side of EoTM or WvW in general.
Still seems like much work for little to no gain.
Many won’t even glance at game, cuz they need to give email, register etc..
If random Billy can’t be bothered to enter an email, password and press big red button, then downloading the client and creating a character will be even more work than studying string theory.
I’m skeptical that there’s a sufficiently large number of people who want to commit to an MMO (making them valuable customers/prospective customers,) but are holding back from a particular game because it asks for an email address.
Rather than funnel people into a temporary, extremely stripped down version of the game, I think it’s better to just ask for an email address and create a real account for them. It’s a completely expected, normal hurdle to get over, and they can present the game in a much better light than what you’re suggesting.