After a short forum review, people is not trully happy, after trully free. So, how about a change in the trully free concept ?
Examples:
- L2 is free to play, for 10 hours a week, and without vitality benefit.
- Monthly suscription for like 5 dollars give you no restrictions, login preference and a basic adventurer package (1 vita replenish and 1 maintainer vita pot, a couple luxury coctail.)
- L2store and gallery the way they want.
I don't think NC failed and I don't really agree with his proposal, but in his defense -- using the whole '5 full servers' defense isn't exactly well thought out, considering a very large number of those are boxed characters or bots.
lol 5 full servers and game = fail? They obviously know what they are doing and im sure are pulling in 100x more money then charging people monthly.
I don't know what you are playing, but this game only has 2 full servers. http://kaifas.lt/LineageII-statistic/
lol this game is OLD...very old period. i am surprised it took it this long to go free. in any case, why would they start charging after marketing this totally free gimmick.....or should i call it scheme.
in the first place it is NEVER a good idea to put a time limit on people's play. in any case, games go F2P becuase they are no longer viable on a P2P model. especially when there is other games that people could easily play. the amount of people that are "loyal" to a game is so small that it simply doesn't make good sense to cater to them solely.
Well, let me put it this way, if this game was still sub I would have never played it. Now that I am playing it I bought a 60 day time card for it, turned into ncoin and got an adventures pack and nevits rune from the cash shop. So, as p2p wouldn't go near it, as f2p I put 2 months worth of sub into it in the first week. I would assume many others have also done this, which means this week alone they made alot of money they never would have had if it was still p2p.