EverQuest II rebooting free-to-play in December

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Awesome. I have a character sitting in limbo from my subscription days and a character on the free-2-play version. I hope I can gain access to both now.

@Tripwolf You can complain all you want but this is their only option, they either raise the monthly fees or do this. MMO's are losing a lot of space, and fighting each others subscribers. Differently from retail games its unlikely that someone plays 2 mmos at the same time. This is the industrys natural progression, its bad for some good for others.

I "hate" the F2P model. It's not a free game. It's like an extended demo. You get 1 inventory space and can hold 10 copper. Pay 5 bucks and you can hold 12 copper. It's rubbish. But if you go to their store you can buy potions that make you invincible for a minute or rez you on the spot for 20 bucks each. The more you pay, the better you are! Who loves the sound of that? And who ends up paying the cost? The paying subscribers because they have to tolerate all the free players that don't care if they get banned. The servers become insanely laggy, there's going to be queues to even log in. It's stupid. Subscription based MMOs are the only MMOs I will play. I get nickle and dimed enough in RL, I dont need it to happen in a game.

free to play is the future of mmos. because thats only way to make money out mmos

Will be playing this.

F2P doesn't have to be so complicated. What's wrong with $50 for the game and $20-$30 for a respectively sized expansion? I throw down my $50, get full access to the game without worrying about subs. or account services, and if I want more, I buy the expansion. That's perfectly fair and reasonable. I believe that's how Guild Wars 2 will be doing things. All this F2P, ie. glorified demo, nonsense is mostly inconvenient. If there are some AAA titles out there that are truly F2P, good on them.

Freemium is the dominant MMO model like it or not.

I'm not going back to this game. I loved the game, but I was also playing WoW at the time. Plus having a fiance at the time literally made it impossible to play both games. I ended up quitting EQ2 and played WoW for 2 years instead. Both games were great, but now I have a daughter and literally have no time to even try a new MMO game. Gotta wait for my daughter to start school before I can venture into the MMO realm again. The changes sound good, but if you have access to ALL the content example for a few classes with the FREE version, but would you even pay the $15 for the monthly. Especially if class you like to play is available in the free game. I'm wondering if you can level to the highest level in the free version?

It would be better if all races were free up front. Only reason i don't wan to try the f2p model