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So yet again you make important game announcements via Twitter only because it's not like we have an in-game home page where you can announce stuff.
More than that, it is made clear from quest giving NPCs and from the campaign store that in order to unlock the quest for the trial, you need to finish the 5th campaign task. This campain task requires 750 Northen War Commendations to complete. With the campaign being out for 2 weeks, non-paying players have accumulated a maximum of 600 currency - so to be able to play the new trial as it goes live, you'd need to purchase campaign currency through the Zen store. You can only do this through the Pack of the Undying, which gives 100 Northern War Commendations, so you'd have to buy two of them at a whooping 4800 Zen (clearly "coincidentally" on sale this week, as per a very accurate and totally not-out-of-date blog post).
Given that the alleged reason this trial was not on preview for extended periods of time was to not allow some people to practice it ahead of the vast majority of the player base, the fact that you are now going to allow people who pay to practice it before everyone else kinda defeats the point. Game is totally not pay to win tho, right?
More than that, it is made clear from quest giving NPCs and from the campaign store that in order to unlock the quest for the trial, you need to finish the 5th campaign task. This campain task requires 750 Northen War Commendations to complete. With the campaign being out for 2 weeks, non-paying players have accumulated a maximum of 600 currency - so to be able to play the new trial as it goes live, you'd need to purchase campaign currency through the Zen store. You can only do this through the Pack of the Undying, which gives 100 Northern War Commendations, so you'd have to buy two of them at a whooping 4800 Zen (clearly "coincidentally" on sale this week, as per a very accurate and totally not-out-of-date blog post).
Given that the alleged reason this trial was not on preview for extended periods of time was to not allow some people to practice it ahead of the vast majority of the player base, the fact that you are now going to allow people who pay to practice it before everyone else kinda defeats the point. Game is totally not pay to win tho, right?
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I don't see that as pay to win, but as pay for your lack of patience... oups, sorry, pay to get access earlier.
I LOL to who will spend money/Zen to get access to the trial 1week earlier.
If you are patient, it's free to play on the 24th.
Depend in which category you consider yourself to be.
I'm in the patient one.
(I should put that as my forum signature, it's a a proverb i frequently use :
Patience is a virtue that can only be acquired through patience)
> The trial is unlocked at 600
Now that is actual info! Where did you get that? And thanks for posting.
Its pay to be first because that will make people pay. If everybody in NW is so super patient and calm and collected there's no money.
They are feeding into the bad aspects of the game so much harder than into the good (because thats what drives the sales) that its hard to see people still caring so much.
It's almost like elitism and anger and disappointment are the only strong enough things to get players moving instead of ugh.. idk... wonder, joy, companionship (and other sappy HAMSTER like that)
> > @wilbur626 said:
> > The trial is unlocked at 600
>
> Now that is actual info! Where did you get that? And thanks for posting.
It changed from 600 on preview to 750 on live, so my info was outdated. Sorry about that. I asked devs about this several times during preview and was told that unlock at 600 was intended. I also completed the campaign several times during preview, so I guess this was a last minute change to squeeze a few zen out of the eager ones 😂
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