Guild Wars 2

1. Free players can access sPVP (spvp so dead now no players)

2. Free players can access PVE and WVW but they can only wear Masterwork gear. ( More kitten to be pawned by we the alpha full payed players)

3. Free players can get into lv 80 and can only have exotic gear in their bags (cant wear it, but they can unlock and wear the skin.)

4. Basically free player is like kitten that ready to be pawned by us the alpha male players that bought the game.

5. If the free players want to be stronger they need to bought the game.

6. Esport achieved in sPVP ( the only place free players can pawned full payed players)

7. Profits.

The game has no monthly subscription. Is a one off purchase. People choose to spend any extra money through the gem store.
Why make it free to play?

Joke thread or troll thread…or both?

I can’t tell…

Dear.
Mother.
Of.
God.
NO.

I can guarantee there will be two immediate problems rising from going F2P (because this is exactly what happens to other games that go F2P):

• Massive increase in gold spam because gold sellers don’t need to buy/steal accounts anymore.
• People exploiting multiple accounts to get around restrictions (imagine half the people at world bosses being alt accounts AFKing to get the daily chest, or your entire team in PvP being full of AFK characters because two guys on the enemy team decided they wanted easy wins).

F2P would be ruinous for GW2, never mention it again.

F2P = bot invasion

Do you want more gold sellers? Because that’s how you get more gold sellers.

I paid 34.99 for the deluxe edition…. The rest of what I am doing is FREE…. So not sure just what your Issues is.. Unless you want the Core game free and if they did that would be no money for them… Sorry but if you think any games are free and you can be competitive.. Please Clue me in…….

knives.6132:

Do you want more gold sellers? Because that’s how you get more gold sellers.

You made me think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KAVZEiIjk8

Back to topic: NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

So you want a pay to win game instead? Sorry, but gw2 is doing much better than you’re thinking if you’re suggesting this. And the free trials do exactly what you’re suggesting anyway.

OP doesn’t know what F2P means and how it does work.

I don’t think it takes a genius to figure out how bad of a suggestion this is.

I think that maybe not free to play but something like free access till level 30 to bring new people , they will try spvp/eotm , maybe even dungeon . I also think that monthly sub with benefits is great idea to bring more money . Sub doesnt mean pay to win , you can pay for example for ability to use unlimited golem banker on every char, 8 bag slots on every char(all theses bonuses are activated during subscription ).
Also I dont understand why Anet doesnt take money which people just want to spend .People want build templates – just give one extra tab per 800 gems . People want to use mounts,toys etc . Make toy tab(like mini one ) and let people activate their carpets,brooms,baloons with single key-bind .
But we must remember one thing more money isnt always better/more content and thats what we all want .

VOLTCIEAGE.3029:

I think that maybe not free to play but something like free access till level 30 to bring new people , they will try spvp/eotm , maybe even dungeon .

Free Trial period did end around 2 weeks ago.

they couldn’t access wvw maps and couple of other irrelevant stuff.

OP has taken some weird pills… and overexaggerated.

I get the impression OP is having trouble winning in PvP and wants weaker opponents brought in so he can finally win a match.

Astral Projections.7320:

I get the impression OP is having trouble winning in PvP and wants weaker opponents brought in so he can finally win a match.

HAHAHAHAH oh my… xD

I already play one one F2P game, I’d rather GW2 stay the way it is. The F2P game that I play is so out of balance, when you compare the cash shoppers to the free players, that it’s not funny. The free players are nothing but cannon fodder and it’s really hard to for the company attract new players to the game with how messed up the in game economy is; everything is ran by the cash shoppers. Personally, I have put over two grand into that game and that pales in comparison to what other players have invested in it.

I have since stopped putting money into games where the player can buy the upper hand. It’s no fun when you cheat to get to the top.

Obvious troll is obvious.

In case you aren’t trolling, I feel sorry for you, really.

the only part of gw2 which can be f2p access is the spvp and truly that’s not anymore cause you can’t accept skins via pvp.so no f2p is not necessary and not viable without changing affecting us also

No no no no no no no…. No dumb idea. Loads of people have spent there money on it I don’t want a tf2 all over again

F2P has ruined many MMO’s so NO please no…

knives.6132:

Do you want more gold sellers? Because that’s how you get more gold sellers.

Yeah .. or have or forums look like this :

Beldin.5498:

knives.6132:

Do you want more gold sellers? Because that’s how you get more gold sellers.

Yeah .. or have or forums look like this :

On the plus side, as that person pointed out, at least they know where to go for a top model :-P

AdaephonDelat.3890:

Beldin.5498:

knives.6132:

Do you want more gold sellers? Because that’s how you get more gold sellers.

Yeah .. or have or forums look like this :

On the plus side, as that person pointed out, at least they know where to go for a top model :-P

Haha .. yeah.

The Archeage Forums look a little better today .. yesterday they also looked much
the same .. but there is also still a lot of spam.

Yeah .. that .. Goldspammer .. Bots en mass .. that are all the nice feature of F2P,
and even if we also have sometime some Spammers here .. its nothing when you
compare it with F2P games where the whole chat is spammed with 20 message
per minute or whatever.

Beldin shown pretty much how f2p looks like but, if Gw2 would ever go F2P model, then I want Gameforge to be publisher of Guild Wars 2 Free To Play .

:3

NO! If you want f2p go play Archeage.

Save the money (60 euro) → Buy the game → play without subs = priceless.

NO to F2P bots.

Did you expect to walk into you local game store and ask ’ Can I have GW2 for free please.’

Sorry but, what planet are YOU on.

You pay for the license and the installation discs etc.

GW2 has none of the pay to win item mall attractions of 99% of F2P MMORPG’s. Making GW2 free to play without a huge gem store overhaul would mean a massive net loss in income from game sales

Beldin.5498:

knives.6132:

Do you want more gold sellers? Because that’s how you get more gold sellers.

Yeah .. or have or forums look like this :

Rift has always had… meh forums, but the game itself is awesome :]

No. Anet has to get money somewhere. If it takes away money from them, it’s a bad idea. Not just for them, but for the game in general. Less money = even less updates, and eventually a dead game.

Going free to play would also ruin the community, which is one of the biggest things this game has going for it. We don’t need little 12 year olds running around Lions Arch screaming swag and yolo. Please no.

Dude. gold seller?

this free player cant even wear exotic. their gear just that cheap 12 silvers items. their full set not even get 2 golds.

in the long run, this will attract more players. because they can experience the awesomeness of gw2.

players has desire for power. they will bought the game

nerovergil.5408:

Dude. gold seller?

this free player cant even wear exotic. their gear just that cheap 12 silvers items. their full set not even get 2 golds.

in the long run, this will attract more players. because they can experience the awesomeness of gw2.

players has desire for power. they will bought the game

Gold sellers have nothing to do with gear. I don’t think you understand how F2P games work at all. Go check out ArcheAge forums and you’ll understand why your idea is terrible.

I actually feel bad for anet as it is. We only pay once, the price is really low and we still expect them to give us plenty more of content. I don’t think making the game free to play would help them much…

Although I am getting slightly frustrated by their latest “we will only add things that cost gems” politics….

nerovergil.5408:

Dude. gold seller?

this free player cant even wear exotic. their gear just that cheap 12 silvers items. their full set not even get 2 golds.

in the long run, this will attract more players. because they can experience the awesomeness of gw2.

players has desire for power. they will bought the game

Sorry I dont need no extra lags with f2p players. If you like the game on youtube buy it if not don’t.

nerovergil.5408:

Dude. gold seller?

this free player cant even wear exotic. their gear just that cheap 12 silvers items. their full set not even get 2 golds.

in the long run, this will attract more players. because they can experience the awesomeness of gw2.

players has desire for power. they will bought the game

I ask you to provide a list of pros and cons of F2P model.

At least prove, that you understand the model you’re asking Arena Net and playerbase to agree to.

WTF FTP?? Best troll tread ever.

Just what the game doesn’t need, a weak underclass of players wearing, at best greens, doing dungeons, WvW and low level fractals.

I can just see the LFG posts now saying no FPs and the raging on the forum when they join anyway.

Waw.. I don’t even…

Waw.

Just.. waw.

nerovergil.5408:

Dude. gold seller?

this free player cant even wear exotic. their gear just that cheap 12 silvers items. their full set not even get 2 golds.

in the long run, this will attract more players. because they can experience the awesomeness of gw2.

players has desire for power. they will bought the game

I’m kinda starting to believe you are really serious about your suggestion >_>

I cannot take this seriously.

Plus Anet cant just switch financial models on a whim.

Abandoning thread responding to OP because it reeks of “Give us free things, paying is bad. It’s taking so long to give us the free things you guys suck but I want to gank people that didn’t pay”

OP, just go and play Allods Online. You’ll love that game.

Nah I rather have them making it a true B2P games. Getting rid of (most of) the cash-shop and start releasing expansions on a yearly basis.

FREE PLAYERS means:
1 – more gold sellers
2 – more bot users
3- more child players
4- real players going to others game

i actually left other mmos beacuse of that

Devata.6589:

Nah I rather have them making it a true B2P games. Getting rid of (most of) the cash-shop and start releasing expansions on a yearly basis.

What’s in the cash shop that is worth getting rid of?

@ Above, what’s a “real” player? Someone that bought something and cant put up with bots, children, and gold sellers because those three entities totally don’t already exist everywhere?

Guys, this is so clearly a troll post. Let it go.

In my opinion some free trail system will bring benefits to the game just like demo version .
And F2P game doesnt mean gold sellers
Popular game means gold sellers , if gw2 had 6 milion active accounts probably we would have much more gold sellers then now . But we dont have even 1 milion so most gold sellers even dont try . Also gold in gw is useless if you dont craft legendary you caqnt even spend it .

This is the BEST terrible idea ever, anywhere. You can now retire from posting any more threads. You have have won.. and you will never be able to top this.

Time to move on to other things.

Rod.6581:

OP, just go and play Allods Online. You’ll love that game.

Are you kidding? Allods might be a cool and innovative free-to-play mmo but it has become one of the biggest pay2win bullkitten I’ve ever seen.

Back on topic:

OP, you will do yourself and us a favour by thinking before you write, thanks.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

Devata.6589:

Nah I rather have them making it a true B2P games. Getting rid of (most of) the cash-shop and start releasing expansions on a yearly basis.

What’s in the cash shop that is worth getting rid of?

@ Above, what’s a “real” player? Someone that bought something and cant put up with bots, children, and gold sellers because those three entities totally don’t already exist everywhere?

Getting rid of in the cash-shop. Thats all the stuff that should be in the game. Removing the never ending gold grind in this game and making content fun to do because it can reward that cool [now cash shop item X].

So the question should be.. what can stay in the cahs-shop. Name-changer, character slots, total make-over kits, Deluxe Edition. That is about it I guess. Maybe the boosters but they could also be removed from the game. All the other stuff should move to the game, then remove the gem > gold and when done correctly the game would reward doing content and remove the need for the endless gold-grind. There are also some things that could be added to the cash-shop like a race-changer or a guild-name changer.

Not everything would have to be drops, some things could be put in crafting or even a new craft could be created. All the instruments for example could be part of a musician craft. Also the Tempest skins would go great with that craft because they all look a little like being based in music notes. The game could be made a lot better that way with way less currency-grind. The yearly expansions that would then come to generate the income would in addition add nice new content to the game.