If SOE wants to change its image it needs to stop completely shitting over its most loyal players (EQOA, EQMac, Vanguard, etc.) and treating them as expendable. And no, shutting down servers is not inevitable, Turbine is stopping support for AC but letting the servers live on indefinitely with no monthly fee for current subscribers. It also needs to tone down its extreme RMT whoreishness (is that a word?) as seen in EQ Live & EQ 2 in particular. They basically destroyed EQ2 and the game is now one huge walking advertisement for RMT items, it doesn't matter if you have the $15/month subscription or not, you will be inundated with that shit. PS2 though was a decent attempt at a F2P game without overbearing RMT.
I will wait and see how SOE chooses to monetize this next monster of theirs before diving in. I'm happy to pay $15-20 a month for a decent game on top of the box price or even a subtler system like PS2's but I absolutely won't tolerate another SOE in-game advertising shitfest, where every Producer's Letter or Update is solely focused on trying to peddle us old crap in new clothes.
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