Am I the only person concerned giving all the free to play players over to ONE of the four playable factions a balancing issue? People love free to play games and people already adore the Space Orks just as much as any other faction in the 40k universe. Now I understand that the ork boyz will be weaker than the standard unit of any other race, but why not create a free to play infantry unit for each race? Imperial Guardsmen Your standard imperial guardsman is a close enough comparison to an ork boy. The big difference is a higher ballistic skill and possibly a lower toughness (If memory serves me right). I personally would be delighted to see an organized imperial guard guild/clan. Eldar Guardians Eldar guardians are actually everyday citizens of a craft world that are organized into militia and trained as career soldiers alongside theyre everyday lifestyle. Theyre a very basic unit thats comparable to ork boyz and Imperial Guardsmen. A perfect candidate for free to play players. Chaos Cultists Virtually identical to Imperial Guardsmen, they act as cannon fodder for a chaos army, a diverse yet expendable weak unit thats perfect to balance between the four factions free to play units. I hope the Eternal Crusade development team will get a chance to look at this post and possibly rethink giving all the hundreds of free to play players over to just one faction.
The reason they're restricting it to orks isn't just because they can't think of F2P classes for other factions. The thinking behind it is that they want orks to be more populated, not to mention the fact that F2P players tend to be more disorganised, which fits the ork theme and mentality better. The devs are hoping this restriction will not only be able to incentivise players buying the full game, but also make playing an ork more characterful and chaotic for the paying ork players.
1)Orks basic units wont be weaker, they will only be less adaptable. And even thats debunked by Miguel. Most recent news is that they will have access to full progression (with some, currently unknown limitations). 2)This topic has been talked over numerous times, each time coming to the conclusion to retain the Orks as the F2P race because : a)They need the actual numbers to be adequately represented as the Green Tide b)Their lore behavior is similar to your run of the mill F2P player c)Orks are the last by population in the polls we had on the forum (excluding the last one, cause it had multiple choice, so many people voted alts in)
d) It was considered desirable to give the F2P population boost to the smallest faction, in order that the likely Space Marine horde (based on population polls by ourselves and Behaviour) would have a numerically equal challenger, to support balancing in-game. Giving the Space Marine fation a F2P class would make their numerical dominance even worse, and put a lot of pressure on other forms of population balancing.
Because the devs need to eat and the game is not f2p (although now they have a f2p faction...), besides if you give IG as f2p for the SM you will have 40% sm, 40% f2p ig and then the other 3 factions.
Thanks for the update on this topic guys, im relativly new to the forum and I mustve passed over previous discussions.. Im still reluctant to agree that giving hundreds of free to play players to one faction wont cause issues but I guess its something that only time will ultimately tell. Thanks again
Everything stated above! Also, don't forget that this game will have diplomatic features, so some factions can actually form temporary alliances/truces to better fight the dominant faction (likely orks and SM, given the population polls/F2Waaagh option)
I wonder where this leaves premium orks. I hope it is still worth it to buy the game just for the orks. I will still buy the game if it isn't but I really hope they separate premium and ftp alot.
I doubt they would be on the same footing, they need to incentivize B2P Orks somehow. Im sure they will do it in terms of access to certain things like leadership, perhaps particular cosmetics and quite a few more things that i cant think of right now.
I'm not concerned, I would actually be happy if F2P players made up 75% of the population at launch. It would be awesome.
