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Wild Terra 2 Free Trial Coming June 9
Wild West Online To Offer Free Trial As Traffic Drops
Wild West Online is preparing to implement a free trial as its Steam numbers continue to drop. Having released barely a month ago, Wild West Online launched to a peak of 559 players on Steam and currently sits at less than 40 as of this writing with a 24 hour peak of 84.
“We’re adding free trial version of the game. It’ll be available both at our website as well as thru Steam on a game’s store page. Free trial version will let users to play game as a normal player, but with some restrictions.”
Trial accounts will be restricted to level 20 and will not be able to unlock achievements or receive rewards. Wild West Online currently sits at a 37% “mostly negative” rating on Steam.
(Source: Steam)
One Month Later: Battleborn’s Free Trial Doesn’t Retain Numbers
It’s been one month since Battleborn started its free trial, and while the game received an early boost it looks like most of those customers aren’t sticking around. While the game peaked out on Steam at 1,561 concurrent users, the last week has seen those numbers fall to an average of 417.9. The number is still much higher than May’s average player count of 82.2, but complaints of long wait times for queues on the forums and the fact that this is just one month out of launch spells bad times ahead for Battleborn.
Overall, the free trial launch failed to bring the concurrency numbers to even 10% of Battleborn’s launch peak of 12,070 so while the number did increase over pre-trial numbers, it wasn’t by much and those numbers are falling quite steadily. Effects on population for the console versions is more difficult to determine.
(Source: Steam Charts)
Enjoy Black Desert Online For 7 Days
If you haven’t played Black Desert Online yet, but you want to, then you are in luck. Starting now and running through January 4, you can get your hands on a free seven day trial for Black Desert Online. The trial involves no content restrictions or progress loss, you can pick up where you left off should you decide to buy the game.
In addition to the seven day trial, all BDO game packages will be 50% off for the same time period (through January 4). Purchasing the Explorer’s Pack will get you access to the Noel Costume Set, while those who own the game can receive the costume by purchasing it through the store or referring other players.
Check out the free trial at the official website.
Randy Pitchford Denies “Reckless” Battleborn F2P Rumors
Gearbox head Randy Pitchford has denied “reckless” rumors that Battleborn is going free to play, following a report by Kotaku.
While there are no plans to make Battleborn free to play, Pitchford later confirmed that the game will have a limited free trial at some point in the coming months. Until that point, which is not until months from now, Gearbox has committed to continuing to release DLC and continue to support the game as it exists.
Battleborn has slipped hard on PC, with 657 people playing at peak concurrency over the past 30 days or so. The details of Battleborn’s free trial will no doubt be revealed in the months to come.
(Source: Twitter)
FFXIV: Trial Characters Eventually Expire
Free trials have finally come to Final Fantasy XIV, which means more people running around the world of Eorzea. One question that always pops up is how to deal with the army of dead characters that will be created and then never returned to. Square Enix has apparently thought of this problem and come up with a solution. Accounts must be upgraded to the full version within 90 days, or else it appears that the character may be lost.
In order to keep playing with the same in-game and character data in the full version, players must upgrade to the full version of the game within 90 days after the Free Trial expires.
There are similar setbacks which appear to be aimed at slowing down gil farmers. Free accounts cannot trade, nor can they use the market board, retainers, free companies, moogle delivery service, nor can they use /tell, /yell, and /shout chat commands, and are restricted from creating parties or linkshells. Additionally, it looks like accounts are tied to the client, which will not install if there is a copy of FFXIV or the trial version on the computer. A gil spammer would, theoretically, be forced to uninstall and reinstall the game every time they were banned.
(Source: FFXIV)
TERA Drops 7-Day Limit From Trial, Closer To Free To Play
TERA may be partially free to play in Korea, but for now you Western gamers are just going to have to deal with limited trials. En Masse Entertainment has opened up the TERA free trial from the original seven day limitation to unlimited play. Players are able to level two characters per server up to a maximum of level 28, with limits on crafting and gathering skills, as well as limits on gold and chat access. As long as you have an account with En Masse Entertainment, you should be able to log in and get started. No purchase necessary.
The Discovery Edition is the new free trial available for players interested in giving TERA a try. We have improved our previous free trial by increasing the max level players can play up to, as well as removing the 7 day restriction so you can play on your own time and not worry about using up the free trial time!
(Source: TERA Website)
RuneScape Free Trial Returns?
Last month I posted an article about a 14-day membership for new accounts. The trial was unannounced and held rather ambiguous requirements as to who could participate (at the time it appeared to be UK-only), and remained unmentioned by Jagex until later in the month when Mod Hippo posted to announce that the trial had ended.
With today’s update to RuneScape, it appears that the trial is back. Upon character creation, users are reporting seeing this:
I am checking up on the RuneScape forums to see if I can find any comment by Jagex staff and will update with any more information.
Try LOTRO and DDO In Your Browsers With Gaikai
Well, don’t get your hopes up. Turbine today announced Gaikai, allowing players to trial Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online without having to download either game’s client. Playable through your browser, the trial is heavily limited: One hour, due to technical issues that prevent any repeat or extended play at this time.
Currently, the LOTRO trial on Gaikai will allow you to play for up to one full hour. For most players, this will allow you to create your character and complete the starting area for your race. At the end of the trial, you will be logged out from the game and your character and progress will be stored on our servers. You will then be provided with links to download the game client to continue your adventure.
You can find the entire FAQ at the link below, this promotion (for now at least) is only an incentive to give the game a try.
(Source: LOTRO website)
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