Me and my friend were having a conversation, and he wrote this. "if they had free days where said f2pers could play certain races/any race for free for that day/week/etc. this would show and let people feel why it's worth paying. because otherwise i'm gonna get it as f2p and go meh, because i won't know what i'm missing out on." Honestly, I think these are quite good ideas. What do you think? the ability for people to occasionally try out a class/faction that you normally need to by the game for. if you aren't sure of your opinion, WAIT to vote. DISCUSS!
Pretty sure they will know what they're missing out on anyway. Youtube and Twitch exists for a reason.
I think no, not for the moment at least. Just because if they implement this now, then the numbers will fluctuate by quite a bit (especially for Eldar) making them a sizable army for one day/week which is good for capturing objectives but then come next week they will have no one on their side to defend any objectives.
Nah. Not because I want to keep things from the free players, but rather because this is forcing the newbies to make a fresh start on a new faction. This not only swings pops wildly but isn't even that fun for the duration of the trial because starting anew is always terrible. It works for LoL, but only because you don't really have any progression outside an individual map. If players had to level characters from match to match, you can bet starting a lvl1 character would be much less fun as everyone wipes the floor with you. It only gets worse when the trial ends and you have no access to the character you've invested time into unless you buy the game.
True, but it's based on unlocking gear. Giving a newb a bolter and sending them out into the world doesn't help them really appreciate the SM faction. Think of it like being a BR1 in planetside 2: you have not suit, no utilities, only regular grenades, and starting abilities and guns with no attachments. You only really get a feel of the faction once you unlock more of their arsenal.
but the bolter is the essence of what the marine is. i think that gives a very nice feel. besides, gear is more or less horizontal.
True, but until you get that horizontal progression you're gonna be doing cqc with your bolter. Long range with your bolter as well. AV? Bolter. Sniping? Bolter. What I'm getting at is that when the model features any form of long term progression, you are much more limited when you start out than later on so this isn't really an ideal place to put someone you want to turn into a paying customer. All you really get is that you're tossing the f2p group from faction to faction but you aren't really getting a whole lot of good out of it. They're as limited as they were when they did the same stuff as Orks, but now they're another faction.
*shrug* better than them not getting to try. also, this would be a DEMO! thus they probably wouldnt even make any progress
The devs were thinking about it, let them unlock (no idea how they will unlock it...) a couple of hours of gameplay in other faction. Against the idea if is a fixed day, or week but I don't think that 1 guy having a chance of playing 2 hours just like everybody else that bought the game can be harmful.
