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Trial Restrictions Lessened In Eve Online
Prospective pilots looking to plunge into Eve Online will find that their trial experience is becoming a little more free. In an upcoming update, Eve Online trial accounts will be able to send and receive ISK, post in trade chat, participate in incursions, and have five corporation applications pending.
A number of skills are seeing their restrictions lifted while others that were not restricted are being pulled away. You can find more details at the link below.
(Source: Eve Online)
Bioware Isn't Afraid To Re-Restrict You Freeloaders
Good news, free players! In a recent forum post by Lead Designer Damion Schubert, based on feedback via the public test realm (where free to play is currently undergoing trial), Bioware has decided to ease up on some of the restrictions on free players. You will now be able to enjoy a second quick bar, as well as five warzones instead of three per week. Additionally, Cartel Coin item locks will be reduced to three days for free players and two for subscribers. But don’t think that these changes are permanent. If Bioware gets even the slightest hint that you are cheapening the experience for their subscribers, all cards are on the cutting board:
That being said, one of our golden rules is that the Free-to-Play experience should not cheapen the experience for paying subscribers. If it turns out that the Free-to-Play conversion results in a degraded Warzone experience once we go live for subscribers, you can rest assured that we will quickly make adjustments to the system to ensure that subscribers have an optimal experience.
With the competition of so many free to play MMOs, The Old Republic still lands somewhere on the more restrictive side towards free players, like limiting the player to two hotbars. The Old Republic will feature a “preferred” player status for previous subscribers and those who purchase something from the cash shop, that removes more of the limitations.
(Source: The Old Republic)
Bioware Isn’t Afraid To Re-Restrict You Freeloaders
Good news, free players! In a recent forum post by Lead Designer Damion Schubert, based on feedback via the public test realm (where free to play is currently undergoing trial), Bioware has decided to ease up on some of the restrictions on free players. You will now be able to enjoy a second quick bar, as well as five warzones instead of three per week. Additionally, Cartel Coin item locks will be reduced to three days for free players and two for subscribers. But don’t think that these changes are permanent. If Bioware gets even the slightest hint that you are cheapening the experience for their subscribers, all cards are on the cutting board:
That being said, one of our golden rules is that the Free-to-Play experience should not cheapen the experience for paying subscribers. If it turns out that the Free-to-Play conversion results in a degraded Warzone experience once we go live for subscribers, you can rest assured that we will quickly make adjustments to the system to ensure that subscribers have an optimal experience.
With the competition of so many free to play MMOs, The Old Republic still lands somewhere on the more restrictive side towards free players, like limiting the player to two hotbars. The Old Republic will feature a “preferred” player status for previous subscribers and those who purchase something from the cash shop, that removes more of the limitations.
(Source: The Old Republic)
Jagex Fights Gold Farmers, Restricts Free Accounts
Nuking bots from an MMO is easy, at least in comparison with nuking actual gold farmers. After all, programs can be broken from the outside, manipulated into revealing themselves, and detected through various means. But how can you know that the person behind the account grinding dragons for five hours is any different than the player grinding dragons for five hours to sell the gold for real money? Not until he actually makes the sale, and even then proving that the sale was for real cash is incredibly difficult.
With the new website, Jagex has announced restrictions for all new free accounts going in effect today:
- New free-to-play accounts can only give away gold coins or items, or make a trade with an imbalance in the recipient’s favour, to the value of 25000 coins per 24 hours. This limitation also applies to drop trades.
- New free-to-play accounts can make Duel Arena bets with no greater imbalance than 25000 coins per 24 hours.
- We have also made a change to Wilderness PvP, where noted items will only appear to the original carrier when dropped upon death; not the killer. This affects all accounts – not just ones subject to the limitations above.
“The limitations will remain in effect until the affected account purchases membership. Subscribing will remove these restrictions permanently, even if the subscription later ends and is not renewed.”
It’s disappointing to see how much rampant gold farming can affect a game for its players.
Lord of the Rings Online: Removing Transfer Restrictions
When MMOs open their games to the public, the standard servers tend to fill out rather quickly, but the servers that were popular prior to the transition are regularly first to become overloaded by a combination of new and returning players creating and transferring characters. In the case of Lord of the Rings Online, Turbine decided to restrict character transfers over to select servers: Brandywine, Dwarrowdelf, Elendilmir, Imladris, Landroval, and Riddermark. With the recent update allowing players to pay for characters to transfer with Turbine Points, Turbine announced that the restrictions will be lifted on server transfer.
That is to say, the transfer will still cost you the standard price: $25 or 2995 Turbine Points. You can check out the whole post here.
Got through the whole article without a TP joke. You all sit tight, this is a cause for celebration.
PLEX To Become A Normal Item In Eve Online
When PLEX, the cash-to-subscription-time item, was introduced to Eve Online, it was created special from the rest. You couldn’t undock with PLEX in your ship, meaning the item was bound to the station and its marketplace. CCP was so worried about the volatility of PLEX being introduced into the game that these restrictions were put into place, if temporary, to allow the item an introductory period of sorts until the kinks could be worked out and the game could become used to it. Luckily, with the upcoming changes to PLEX, many of these restrictions will be removed.
So what does this mean? You will be able to undock with PLEX, as well as placing PLEX in courier contracts. The restriction on redeeming (and reverse-redeeming) items only at NPC stations is being removed, as well as allowing players to convert ETC into PLEX when not necessarily at an NPC station.
This does, however, mean that you can lose PLEX if your ship is destroyed. A player who destroys you may find your PLEX as part of your loot, or it may be destroyed in your ship’s explosion. As with Eve’s other items, refunds are out of the question. CCP’s reasoning behind these updates is that they do not want items to have a special status, and would prefer to have item prices be determined by the players, rather than some system set up.
The updates go live next week (13th). More on Eve Online as it appears.
Runes of Magic: Credit Card/Paypal Blocks In Plain English
I wanted to have a slightly more serious conversation about a certain title that has garnered quite a bit of controversy around it by outside players and its community. I am, of course, referencing to the newly instated Diamond policy that restricts what players can do with diamonds purchased through certain avenues. Diamonds are a currency in Runes of Magic that are purchased with real life money. They can be traded to other players, or used to purchase items in the item mall.
Frogster implemented an update that restricts diamond usage among players, due to players using stolen credit cards and stolen paypal accounts to purchase diamonds, to send to their main accounts. Those who buy their diamonds with a credit card or paypal account, or even a Playspan account will not be able to trade the diamonds, nor will they be able to sell them on the auction house. They will be bound to your account, and can only be used on the item mall for items that will be bound to your character.
Explanation after the break.
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