slammed by guildm8...nice

e - on topic, the game itself is pretty damn fun. Can solo/small fellowship/large fellowship/raid skirmishes and what have you. Plus TONS of quests and deeds to complete. Oh, and the landscape is incredible.

This post was edited by TheE1337 on Dec 8 2010 12:36pm

Elven Hunter, I always choose the ranged class first
All servers have the same content afaik.
Not that much and also hard to find people on same servers as there are so many servers.
I have gold on elendimir...

Do you have a link to this?

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Warcraft-free-to-play-MMORPG-Diablo-Game,10776.html

WoW May go Free-To-Play; Diablo II Turns 10.4:10 PM - June 30, 2010 by Kevin Parrish - source: Tom's Hardware US .
While Diablo II officially turns 10, Blizzard admits that World of Warcraft could possibly go free-to-play when the next MMO goes live.


ZoomOne of the biggest trends we're seeing with MMOGs is that they're beginning to offer free-to-play models. Two big-name titles already come to mind: Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online, both of which were developed by Turbine and have switched (or are switching in regards to LOTRO) over to the new scheme within the last year.

Free-to-play offers a way for casual gamers--those who don't have three to four hours a pop to spend on a game per day--to enjoy the same realms and experiences as paid subscribers. Rather than forcing players to dump money into time that may never get used, the free-to-play scheme draws revenue from microtransactions and item purchases.

Apparently Blizzard has taken notice and believes that this system will eventually make its way into World of Warcraft. Why? Because eventually a game will launch and pull subscribers away from Blizzard's reigning MMORPG king. According to World of Warcraft’s lead designer Tom Chilton, MMOGs with free-to-play models weren't created to compete with World of Warcraft, but rather to compete with other MMOGs using the free-to-play model.

"I feel like they’re doing that to compete with other games that are on a similar subscriber level to what they were at," he said. "I imagine that when one of them went free to play it cannibalized some of the other subscribers. I can definitely imagine that being the case with World of Warcraft. If another game comes along and blows us away it may not make sense for us to have a subscription fee. Or even further down the line, when we have another MMO out."

He also added that Blizzard isn't spending much time considering a free-to-play model. "It’s not something that’s a reality for us in the near future," he said. But based on his comments, it sounds as if the MMORPG could incorporate free-to-play when the next MMO hits the PC.

In related news, the classic PC action/RPG game Diablo II turned 10-years-old on Tuesday, June 29. Apparently the game is still receiving updates from Bizzard and remains actively played on Battle.net to this very day.

"Diablo II did more than just expand on the core feel and mechanics of the original game," said Blizzard. "It took a traditional dungeon crawl and opened up the game world with vast exterior zones and intricate, randomly generated dungeons. Diablo II took players from desert sands to the darkest jungles on a quest that would ultimately lead them into the depths of the Burning Hells."

Makes me want to install the game and play it all over again. BRING ON DIABLO III!


This post was edited by MisterAlien on Dec 8 2010 04:25pm

Thanks for the link MisterAlien, very interesting stuff. I wonder if D3 will be f2p...

its a great game far better then wow there is not many little kids and its easy to lvl me and a firend play on vilya server

last statement was d3 was f2p. tho i may be mistake now that was a very long time ago, and still i have played LOTRO and sorry i disliked, there were many mouthy tools when i was just a low lvl noob asking questions, gave me a bad opinion of the community and the game

This post was edited by little_foot on Dec 8 2010 08:59pm

yet you've been a member of jsp for over 2 years...your opinion counts, lol.

Yeah but the exception on jsp is that if you post a question in a highly populated forum, you are likely to be answered, regardless of the mouthy tools that also post. I have discovered that on most of these p2p to f2p abortions of games, your questions will rarely get answered and they leave you to find out on your own in their makeshift forums and "wiki" page without the specific answers you are looking for.

Played the game a few days now.
Started with an Elven Hunter, but it bored me.
Than played with an Elven Lore-Master, but it isn't a regular sorcerrer.

Now making an human Captain and it suits me.
Finding weak links in a fellowship and support where needed. A bit like a paladin...

Playing F2P has some nasty restrictions, like having only 2 gold and no gold transfers are allowed, so I am not able to buy gold on JSP.

Keep the opinions coming...