Every other PWE MMO I've played so far has offered all races and classes for free. Cryptic is an exception rather than the rule (I heard they also did this in STO, but can't confirm cause I no longer have it on my computer). Having said that, Turbine charges money for many of their races/classes too (in both LOTRO and…
You can unbind your pet with AD by first making it idle, then posting it on AH, then canceling. To make it idle, either press the "make idle" key or move it to your inventory (it will go into the idle companion tab - hand icon). Then simply drag it to the AH as you would any other item. It will ask you to pay an unbind fee…
You must play a different DDO than me. You still have to pay for expansions. Basically you pay a monthly sub and still have to pay every year for content! In every PW game I've played, I've not had to pay anything for content, including expansions. I still remember all the subscribers in DDO complaining about having to pay…
Nobody in their right mind would buy the tier 3 upgrade for 2 million AD. Here's why : 1) you can get 1 zen for around 400 AD at the exchange 2) 400k AD gets you 1000 zen 3) 2 million AD gets you 5000 zen 4) 4000 zen gets you the most expensive cash shop tier 3 mount in the game which is account wide (reclaimable for all…
From that link : "Online game publisher Perfect World has released its financial earnings statement for the third quarter ended on September 30, 2012. Total revenue for the quarter came to RMB695.8 million ($111.7 million/($111.7 million), down from RMB708.9 million ($113.8 million) in the same quarter in 2011. Net income…
LOL, its in the *same* sentence. And if over 99% of the players end up paying to play (including yourself), then wouldn't that be a pretty good description? Lemme make it a bit clearer .... LOTRO is less like : free to play And more like : free to try then becomes play to play if you want to experience all the higher level…
Yeah everything is grindable, but noone I know is crazy enough to do it. If you're willing to spend 1000s of hours to grind for tp to buy all packs and expansions, then good for you, but that doesn't really sound like free to me. That sounds like work like sh*t to play. I went back to my old post and this is what I said :…
Wow, I'm not sure why you're getting so upset, lol. People can't just have an honest discussion anymore? I'm a life-time sub vip and founder in LOTRO. I am not anti lotro. But even a hard core player like you have admitted to buying an adventure pack and an expansion with money. So even you had to end up paying to play.…
How is it not true? Do you have all the higher level content? You bought 1 area and 1 expansion with money, so you had to pay to play. And even then you mostly likely don't have all the higher level content. I like lotro, but it's basically free to try, then you have to pay to play at higher levels just as you had to. With…
They're rare though. I've never gotten a key myself but I don't play much anymore. Also, in order to buy things from the LOTRO store, you basically need to use real money since there's no way to exchange in-game currency for cash shop currency the way you can in PW. You can earn a little bit of tp (cash shop currency) from…
At what level do you get the higher level guardian/cleric? I also read that some clerics don't really heal (like some store bought ones). So if I'm interested in getting a cleric who heals, is it better to get the lv 16 one or the higher lv one?
Well you can thank Turbine for the lockbox idea. I play both Turbine and PW games. The first time I've seen lockboxes was around Nov/Dec 2011 where you had to actually buy the key with TP (Turbines cash shop currency) in order to open the lockbox you get as loot in game (LOTRO). Then in Jan 2012, STO introduced the…
I've played a number of Perfect World games and I think it's safe to say that this *will* be a P2W game. However, every F2P game I've played is P2W to some extent; the 2 simply goes hand in hand. But one thing about Perfect World games is that even though they are P2W, it doesn't mean you have to actually pay to get the…