Eluhil wrote:
Truth be told, this thread has already gotten too long for me to bother reading all of it, so I have no idea what has been said by whom, but basically, I'm psyched for this game.
I totally agree. This thread got really old really fast, and I stopped reading it a little after Eluhil's post.
I've been lurking around the Paizo forums since around the time of the savage tide adventure path in old dungeon and dragon, never posting, but I am so excited about the possibilities presented for this game that I just had to get my perspective out there.
I was in the World of Warcraft Beta for a good month before launch, and I bought the collector's edition when it came out. Some would say that there needs to be a certain level of dedication to a concept for that kind of action, and really I loved the world and Blizzard products in general, so I was happy to shell out. Sure, the game didn't have everything I wanted in it, everything that I dreamed of doing in an MMORPG, but this was Blizzard, so they would come through for me, right? I got bored around the 6 month mark. The grind just wasn't for me. I didn't have the time to keep up with it, and all my friends just out paced me, so the game basically became a single player experience, and whats the point in paying $19 bucks (Canadian $ was a bit lower at the time) a month for something that just didn't live up to my expectations? The real killer came when I got massacred by a bear with a skull for a level doing the last thing that I actually enjoyed in the game - exploring.
Then, a few years later, someone introduced me to EVE Online. I was in heaven. Here were all the things WOW didn't have, the things I really wanted: economics. I spent something like three months happily moving water from one system to another, chasing market trends until i could finally afford a real cargo hauler. Then I kept doing the same thing, just on a larger scale. It was great, and I could still play with my friends in mining ops or instanced missions. Time killed even EVE for me, though, as I just couldn't justify the hour or two I could play a week with the price tag.
So, in conclusion, here is a casual gamer, with a casual amount of time on his hands, who is casually going to wait for the Free to Play option to roll out. What will I do when it comes out? Probably do odd jobs until I can afford a horse and cart to ship grain. Or maybe even water. And hey, I will probably even buy a module or two to play with my friends when I've got a spare weekend!