Free game but 1 character

[wat da fk.......]

WHYYYYY.... I didn't know this was the case until I got to level 14 and wanted to try another class... and i cant get myself to delete my character :|

[hi]

Its a revenue model.

[龍宮寺 りゅうぐうじ 堅 けん]

Imagine you can play Dota with just one single character...

[BaneofMills]

Then pay the 30$ OR do what I do. Ive lost multiple stashes of gold and gear just to try a new class. Its just fake in game currency. Also really getting to lvl 15 doesnt take very long if you're killing lots of mobs/people and extracting. Its just a game. Starting from the bottom again isnt so bad. Its still the same game whether you're in grays or purples.

[Xandor]

You can make as many steam accounts as you want, can probably also make multiple accounts with their launcher. So you can bypass it without buying the game.

[Dread Lord]

if you like the game enough to want another character you should really pay for the game - its a fair revenue model. otherwise they cant pay their devs nor their server and backend costs and the game would die...

[Dodge the Bulge]

imo 1 character is way too extreme hope they increase it even if minimally

[Hades]

Originally posted by Dread Lord:

if you like the game enough to want another character you should really pay for the game - its a fair revenue model. otherwise they cant pay their devs nor their server and backend costs and the game would die...

Lol... only if they had managed to have a proper buisness model... or at least copy successful one from similar game (Quake 2, CS, etc), now they are "crippled" with their previous sales to their "angry fan base", lol.
They should have sold as "full game" private/hosting server features with pve and solo/story mode and such things... and keep pvp official servers 100% free only with cash shop for cosmetics and such.

[✪ JReloy]

yep

[Cruddy]

They really need to allow you to make 2 or 3, with 9 classes and more coming there needs to be more lenience for people trying the game, I'd bet that a majority of players pick a class they aren't initially happy with and will want to bounce to something else without wanting to commit so hard they have to delete their progress entirely.

I feel like they could have taken a sort of MOBA Approach, where you can buy another slot with the blue currency, and have the $30 edition function as the "Character pass" that also gets you the amount you have now.

[Mechanique]

Originally posted by Dread Lord:

if you like the game enough to want another character you should really pay for the game - its a fair revenue model. otherwise they cant pay their devs nor their server and backend costs and the game would die...

Fair? For 30 USD you get 0 new content, not even some cosmetic items (you need to pay for those separately) just access to separate sweatlord queue and basic stash sharing + trading. None of that is worth even $5

[Computron]

Originally posted by Mechanique:

Originally posted by Dread Lord:

if you like the game enough to want another character you should really pay for the game - its a fair revenue model. otherwise they cant pay their devs nor their server and backend costs and the game would die...

Fair? For 30 USD you get 0 new content, not even some cosmetic items (you need to pay for those separately) just access to separate sweatlord queue and basic stash sharing + trading. None of that is worth even $5

*NEWS FLASH*

YOU ALREADY HAD 100% OF THE GAME CONTENT WITH THE F2P MODEL!

Colored gear, character slots and menu trader are QoL aspects of this game. ALL CONTENT IS FREE TO PLAY

[Tnargav]

These new gen z don't know the concept of muling.

[wat da fk.......]

Ok didnt mean to cause a ruckus.... but i feel like they coiuld have just did like a free one time reroll where your items can transfer or something.. anyway here's River's of Babylon

By the rivers of Babylon
There we sat down
Yeah, we wept
When we remembered Zion

By the rivers of Babylon
There we sat down
Yeah, we wept
When we remembered Zion

When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
Now how shall we sing the Lord's song
In a strange land?

When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Requiring of us a song
Now how shall we sing the Lord's song
In a strange land?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Let the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart
Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight
Let the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts
Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight

By the rivers of Babylon
There we sat down
Yeah, we wept
When we remembered Zion

By the rivers of Babylon
There we sat down
Yeah, we wept
When we remembered Zion

By the rivers of Babylon
(Dark tears of Babylon)
There we sat down
(You got to sing a song)
Yeah we wept
(Sing a song of love)
When we remembered Zion
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

By the rivers of Babylon
(Oh yeah yeah)
There we set down
(Oh yeah yeah)
Yeah we wept
(Dark tears of Babylon)
When we remembered Zion
(Ooh, yeah yeah yeah)
By the rivers of Babylon

By the rivers of Babylon
(Rough bits of Babylon)
There we sat down
(You hear the people cry)
Yeah we wept
(They need their god)
When we remembered Zion
(Ooh, have the power)

[風]

Imagine complaining about free things.

[Echorion]

removing the restriction is quite expensive too. It's nearly $50 cad, bit too rich for me. If it left you with enough crystals for at least a skin or something, but no, not even that.

It's just in a weird spot. On one hand you really do get a lot for free, pretty much everything- but not being able to make another character sucks a LOT. At the same time, the cost of removing that restriction is pretty much the only reason for the cost now, and it's a LOT of money so I can't justify it to myself either.

It's not a good system they approached their F2P model very poorly.

It would have been better to remove the "full version" ideology entirely, let you have at least 2 character slots, make stash always shared (but half of what you start with already), and then just sell character slots, stash tabs, and all cosmetics after that.

People WILL give you money if you let them enjoy the game first, but if you stop them from enjoying the game you are not going to get that return investment; and the current system actually makes buying the full game NOT appealing- and if you are not enjoying your character but have too much time sunk into them like I have- you start thinking "maybe I should just quit"

If the devs are listening at all you REALLY need to re-approach this system very very soon.