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I could point out things that would have made it less painful for you, but that'd be no fun in this case.
Wishing you enjoyment in future endeavors, wherever they may be.
Two: Fashion. The item you are referring to to change the appearance of your gear is one that you will be given a lot of throughout your gameplay. I have never purchased any from the gem store and have never run out. Tip: You will level so fast and be given so much new gear as you play that I don't even both changing my gear appearance until lvl 80 (which doesn't take long).
Three: As you play you will also be given larger bags for inventory space (you can even earn 20 slot bags through some achievements or playing WvW). Any materials can be deposited into your "material storage" by clicking a button in the upper right of your inventory. It takes some practice but inventory management is definitely a skill one aquires. You'll learn to always keep a salvage kit on you and reflexively check and manage your inventory space as you wander around.
This is like reading Lord of the Rings for the first time. The trek through the shire is fun and then you end up at the slog of the gathering of the Fellowship and you're not sure you're going to enjoy this but once you get through it a vast world opens up and you love it (and even appreciate the gathering of the Fellowship in retrospect). Keep exploring and just playing, it will be rewarding. :)
It feels more like it's just a free trial as opposed to f2p, which is fine. The game seems more buy to play with a free trial. At least there is no sub like most of the other popular MMO's.
1. Thats ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ retarded game design. Put an ultra special premium area right next to the crafting street in the home city for noobs and get some guard standing there calling you a troglodite for trying to enter. What could possibly go wrong?
2. I am beyond befuddled at game design that does this... If a system is put into place but then made completely redundant by spamming the player with the transmog item later in the game, then what exactly was the ultimate purpose of the system other than to what?? Trick new players into spending money at the beginning when they don't know any better? Still leaves a terrible mobile game taste in my mouth sorry. And also the only other MMO's I've really ever played before where EVE and TSW/SWL. EVE removed characters so lol lmao, but TSW/SWL had an extremely robust wardrobe system because the "gear" was actually invisible so how you looked (outside of your weapons) was completely fashion. That game let you switch out fashion completely freely for free (including weapon skins), had a literal barbershop in the game world where you could pay a relatively extremely small non premium currency fee to get a haircut. If I remember correctly you could literally visit a plastic surgeon in game to change your face/body but I don't remember if that was premium or not but it cost so little that it didn't even matter.
3. The crafting in this game to me was honestly far more compelling than the frankly not hugely impressive combat system. I found the salvage kits within like my first 2 hours of gameplay and yes I know about depositing materials otherwise the game would have been literally unplayable as a F2P. Also yes I have acquired a few bag items including a red leather bag from killing a semi hidden ghost encounter npc in the graveyard which I thought was really cool emergent gameplay and a sweet reward for my exploration, but that bag was quickly replaced with an 8 slot and then a 10 slot. It still doesn't feel like enough and I can't help but notice the "PLEASE PAY US MONEY TO INCREASE YOUR INVENTORY SPACE" in both the player inventory and player bank.
4. Instead of sucking me in this game is doing everything it can to disrespect me as a player and inconvenience me into spending money. I don't want to spend my money, but more importantly my time on a game that clearly hates me. There isn't enough unique or enjoyable here to make bearing through the slog of the desert to the promised land worth it.
The fact that the game is 10 years old and has such egregious mobile game cancer baked into its DNA is extremely worrying. This isn't Dwarf Fortress or something where 10k hours later you grow as a player and can keep coming back to this game for potentially as long as computers are around. This is a live service bloody mobile game that costs an obscene amount of money to get into. The game won't be around for another 10 years and even if it was your 10k hour character is where all your progress lies. If your account gets hacked, or banned that's it! no more character! that 10K hours would have been better spent learning an instrument or practising a craft. If the servers get shutdown because people aren't spending enough money on the cash shop or whatever then that's that. The only thing that I could get out of it is the experience of going through the story, but the story is porn tier levels of bad. Maybe the story would have been acceptable in 2012 but in current year its just bewildering. Maybe it gets better after 300 hours but I just can't get behind this and on top of feeling like I am hated as a F2P player I just can't.
I wish to God that I was trolling. I couldn't make this ♥♥♥♥ up if even I wanted to make the game look bad. Also I am seeing an awful lot of posts on steam that basically disregard all criticism of the game as trolls or haters. Sorry buddy you cannot diminish my lived experience
I am happy to hear that at least someone is having fun. If it was outright explained that this is a FREE TRIAL and not marketed as a F2P MMO I would have been fine. My concern is the seemingly cancerous amounts of F2P mobile game GARBAGE. If I was sure that a one time purchase of 40 dollars would unlock the whole game completely that would be one thing; the problem is I don't know what sort of annoying system will be introduced later that they will conveniently have a single use solution for in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cash shop. I don't want to drop $130 just to get my foot into the door of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ live service mobile game.
Good luck in you search and stay safe.
"leave a game that you want to play as a f2p player and look for something else, because the are as sure as hell not going to change that just for you."
Cheers big ears! I hope you realise that a decade old game needs to attract new players somehow if you want to keep your precious servers running. I certainly won't be coming back to this game.
Though considering the restrictions free2play accounts have to live with, like having 2 less inventory bag slots, I guess being free2play is also not that easy. And I can see how getting a free Trial for the Raptor can be seen both, as a generous offer and also as an evil trick to try you to really want to keep him forever.
And about future content ... there certainly is the possebility of them eventually releasing a fourth expansion, which again would cost money. But I'd say that so far each expansion also had a sufficient amount of content to make it fair enough. Also, if you log in a single time after a living world chapter got released and before the next one got releases you get the chapter for free. So you won't have to worry about those costing you any money as long as you at least play sometimes. Though I can still see how the huge content pack of 3 expansions and living world seasons 2-5 for 100€ are a bit much to pay all at once right at the start. I guess I should mention that it is also possible to convert ingame gold into gems and use these gems to buy the living world seasons? So you could get those by just investing lots of time.
Also, I don't get why you compare it to a mobile game, since ... it's no mobile game. I mean, sure, they made the base game free2play to attract more players, sure, I guess that might also be a reason why many mobile games are free as well, but many non mobile games do the same, so it's not really mobile game related. And MMO's are all games as a service games. It's at least way cheaper than WoW where you have to pay just to play evry single month, in GW2 you just have to buy the new expansion every few years. Which I guess you also have to do in WoW .... but besides new expansions you really don't have to pay for any new content. Just the old content might cost a bit.
About the experience I have to say I am weirded out though. because thats just entitlement and wanting everything at once. People have played this game for 5 years without mounts and all was fine. People have paid not only for the base game that you got for free but also for the Heart of Thorns expansion that you now also get free when you buy just the second one. When people felt that their character didn't quite look right on day one they just deleted it and made a new one. You throw a tantrum about every damn little thing.
Your character is too small? OH MY GOD the game is so bad to you? Geez. You CLEARLY see the size difference in the race choice screen, if you think you rock hard by having a big character then for christs sake go make a Norn or Charr while others make a small asura - it's a matter of personal taste.
Not having the needed item to level up a crafting profession on day one? MY GOD the entitlement of people today is INSANE. The game is not MEANT to be completed on day one. "Losing the raptor" hahaha thats so funny. Free2play players never had a raptor before the Steam release, you only had it because ArenaNet decided to cater for todays horribly entitled players and throw you a bone to let you try it for 10 hours too. Mounts only came in 2017, all Veterans spent 5 years without one but you can't bear losing your precious trial gift while not paying a penny.
To get more space, either buy a 15- to 20- slotted bag on the trading post (and sell them later once you can replace them with account-bound version of them), or, once you reach level 80 do fractals and buy the 20 slotted bags for practically free with the fractal relics (currency you get for doing Fractals of the mists).
Then you probably weren't gathering the correct nodes, as they are not a rare drop at all.
You can also get one for free when you're getting your cooking level from 400 to 500 :)
P.S.: It's not profitable to plant the peppercorn at all.
Considering you get 10-20g for doing fractalsa of the mists, approx 2g for doing the daily and you get approx 15-30g in an hour of meta-event farming, 2s is far from a lot.
They tell you that you need a pass to get in there. It's a pass that you can buy with gems.
It's far from mandatory, many will argue that it's not even a QoL service as there are other ways to get what you get inside there by using other things like porting to the sPvP HUB, guild hall or Sun's refuge. the service is cheap, so in case if you would ever feel the need of owning it, you can always convert the gold to gems and buy it. It's a 1 time buy deal, so there's no added "monthly fee" or anything of that kind added to the service once you buy it.
This isn't an issue anymore after you reach lvl 35.
At that point you're able to go to the main city, Lion's arch.
It has the trading post, bank, guild bank, crafting stations, etc. very close to each other (with the exception of the guild bank).
That'sa because It's the first tier of the proffession backpack and it's main purpose of crafting it, is the skin, not the stats.
Yea, the mounts are expansion exclusive, so the 10 hour trial that you get is just to show you how useful and fun they can be.
Oooh, so interesting that you remember the event that was ingame for less than 6 hours after the steam release, when the majority of new players didn't even download the game yet, yet alone get to the event area :)
For someone who had issues finding low level mats like pepper, I am impressed how much you "know" about the end content.
That's because the Norn (not the viking race) is supposed to be a giant race. They look humanoid, but aren't human.
Obviously? Not really that many games offer this feature for free.
Also, not many games offer the option to convert your ingame gold into gems either.
And such is the case in every (mmo)rpg while you're still leveling to your max level.
You can buy all of the dies on the trading post. The majority of them are extremely cheap too. It's also worth mentioning that once you unlock a dye, a piece of equipment, a skin, etc. it goes into your wardrobe after which you can use it on all characters without consuming the skin, dye, etc.
Once you unlock it, it's yours for good.
I mean the alternative for the raptor is to not give you the 10 hour trial at all.
They of course want to sell their expansions, so they are spotlighting one of the main ones, especially since running a mmorpg has it's monthly expenses that they have to pay for and free players don't really help at that in any way or form.
I'm quite surprised how some of you think that a top tier mmo (which doesn't feel or plays as a mobile game at all, mind you), will just throw its content at you for free as if all of it was made out of thin air and has no cost or value to make and sustain at all.
Not at all. A HUGE amount of players only bought the game and never spent a single dime on any additional gem purchase. Many converted their gold to gems, others figured out other ways to deal with it (like selling things on the TP that they don't currently need, however, for that you would at least need to buy the expansions).
130? What are you talking about? It's either 60 or 100, depending if you want to get the full living world unlocked with it as well.
If there's a $130 deal, it probably includes a huge amount of QoL items that come with the pack as well.
Actually You can buy each season of the living world or each episode individually ingame with gems if that suits you more...
You can and would start customizing your character once you reach level 80.
Whatever you get to that point has practically no value, so you shouldn't be worried to destroy, sell or salvage it.
Once you reach level 80 you would be able to farm for gold which you can then convert to gems and buy whatever you want on the trading post, including transmutation charges and gemstore skins.
Bare in mind, that once you reach level 80 you will also unlock a huge amount of gear (skins) that don't look basic as the lvl 10-40 gear.