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Playing a F2P MMO is kind of like Gardening and or Pregnancy
baohsu
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 74
OK look. Lets talk.
NWO isn't even 30 days old yet to the general public.
Yes there are $40 mounts, $20 dollar companions. So what?
As far as I can tell PWE is one of the FEW F2P MMO providers that not only allow you to earn the cash shop currency in game for FREE but they also allow you to do so via other methods (seriously those surveys are actually kinda fun).
OK Great, but you're probably saying "I want golden goose NOW daddy!" Well Veruca Salt, whatever you do, never take up Gardening or be expecting a baby.
Did you know, that if you spent $5 a month on Zen (that's 500 zen) + sold coffers of wonderous enchantments for aroun 30k AD every 7 days amongst two character accounts (assuming you're going the complete F2P account number route) you' have....
~30k AD = 100 zen (give or take 5k) x 2 zccounts = 60k AD, = 200 zen every week.
200zen x 3 weeks (1 month) = 600zen.
600zen x 2 months = 1200zen + $5.00 investment every month for 2 months = 2200 zen.
Well congratulations you now have enough to buy that blue companion or mount. And it only took the BARE MINIMUM of effort.
I mean here's the question, do you want to play all the content now? or do you want to still be playing after 2 months?
Set a goal. Strive to achieve it.
I just started a garden IRL yesterday. I didn't sit there and look at the soil and go "GROWWWWWWWWW! COME ONNNNNNN!"
I'm gonna have veggies in 3/4 months. I'm gonna eat the heck out of those veggies.
I'm also going to probably be having a bear mount in 3/4 months. And I'm gonna prance the heck out of it in PE.
a five dollar a month voluntary contribution to the zen store helps NWO stay open. You could do more, accelerating your timeline, but its up to you. You could even do $5 every OTHER month.
Eventually you'll get that $40 mount. You're gonna feel awesome.
NWO isn't even 30 days old yet to the general public.
Yes there are $40 mounts, $20 dollar companions. So what?
As far as I can tell PWE is one of the FEW F2P MMO providers that not only allow you to earn the cash shop currency in game for FREE but they also allow you to do so via other methods (seriously those surveys are actually kinda fun).
OK Great, but you're probably saying "I want golden goose NOW daddy!" Well Veruca Salt, whatever you do, never take up Gardening or be expecting a baby.
Did you know, that if you spent $5 a month on Zen (that's 500 zen) + sold coffers of wonderous enchantments for aroun 30k AD every 7 days amongst two character accounts (assuming you're going the complete F2P account number route) you' have....
~30k AD = 100 zen (give or take 5k) x 2 zccounts = 60k AD, = 200 zen every week.
200zen x 3 weeks (1 month) = 600zen.
600zen x 2 months = 1200zen + $5.00 investment every month for 2 months = 2200 zen.
Well congratulations you now have enough to buy that blue companion or mount. And it only took the BARE MINIMUM of effort.
I mean here's the question, do you want to play all the content now? or do you want to still be playing after 2 months?
Set a goal. Strive to achieve it.
I just started a garden IRL yesterday. I didn't sit there and look at the soil and go "GROWWWWWWWWW! COME ONNNNNNN!"
I'm gonna have veggies in 3/4 months. I'm gonna eat the heck out of those veggies.
I'm also going to probably be having a bear mount in 3/4 months. And I'm gonna prance the heck out of it in PE.
a five dollar a month voluntary contribution to the zen store helps NWO stay open. You could do more, accelerating your timeline, but its up to you. You could even do $5 every OTHER month.
Eventually you'll get that $40 mount. You're gonna feel awesome.
Foundry author of the "Red Rum Runners" Campaign. Part 1: "WANTED: Physical Labor Needed" and Part 2: "Worst Employer Ever!"
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And then there's the cash shop. We don't really have to buy anything from it, but we still have gamers demanding everything be given to them... while playing this game for free. No such thing as a free lunch y'know. Someone, somewhere has to have paid for it.
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
Good job OP. Continue to remind the ignorant masses how pathetic they are being so negative about a free toy.
Aphids & rat poison need a nerf. They do too much damage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-lia-FEIY
*plotting and evil laughter*
Ok, you might have taken it a little too far with that one...
It's FAR from free. Someone has to buy that Zen. Also do your research. Many games allow you to trade in game currency with cashshop points. Most games do it better than all PWE games. GW2 and EVE Online for instance.
This game might be marketed as "Free to play," but as with all PWE game it is/it's going to actually be "Pay to Win."
For a dead game there sure as hell seems to be a lot of people playing it.
....
Neverwinter Online?
oh yeah. They're all bots, and I'm an astronaut, the Earth is flat, we didn't really land on the moon, and Donald Trump is actually an alien (ok this one might be true).
I think it's time to remove your tin foil hat and go play outside.
Had a customer codenamed "dickheads" who wanted a bed replanted, now this bed is North facing, so it has pretty much 0 sun-light throughout the course of a day. The guy I work for spent hours of his time on a sunday picking out plants which would actually grow in a north-facing garden area (Plants which will grow well in shade, heuchera & winter jasmine which were planted for example) They were fine with the plants we planted after spending 2 hours digging out a ****load of concrete left over by builders, 2 days later, he gets a call from them saying "Why haven't they grown yet?!?!?" "I have to come home and look at a twig on my way in!!"
Needless to say, all the plants got dug back up, back in pots and have flourished since which is quite ironic... The heuchras grew at a ridiculously fast rate.
Drove past 2 weeks later to find they had someone come in and drop a load of summer/sun loving plants in.
TLDR;
Off-topic gardening experience
Pay for something now (Plant sun loving plants in a north-facing garden because it looks great now) - 4 months down the line what you paid for is now useless. (Plants die)
This. New World Order is the end game.
I'm kidding.
Its amazing how so few people on these forums seem to grasp this simple fact.
Which is why I encouraged a multi zen acquisition approach.
I went with NIMBY-ism myself.
Yeah this isn't true... the surveys don't require the purchase of Zen, and they were brought up in the original post. A lot of people do them apparently.
And either way, the game is free. All Zen exchange fluctuation means is that what you get for playing for free can very in speed.
The 700zen I have currently registers on my Cleric as well as my GWF.
I exchanged some Astral Diamonds for Zen on one character. It only showed on that character. It might have been a bug.
Where in a P2P i only need time to get all items, including the rare ones
Because you are paying them. You could buy $15 a month in Zen and have the reduced grind you seem to crave if you chose to.
*gynaecological score
I'd be happier with respecs costing $3 than $6 as I recently respecced my GWF cause I messed him up on my initial rolling. Did it set back my goal for Slyblade Kobold? Yes. But I still respecced him.