The only single major design decision SoE ever made that I hated was the RMT cash store.
Was back playing live in the fall and, while its cool to be able to buy basic services that used to require wait times and GMs directly from the server, the other stuff sucks. They have these armor skin items dropping off of mobs now that you can only use if you pay like 12 bucks. And that's per character not account. Then there are the massive bags that can pretty much only be gotten from the cash store. If you've played recently you will have noticed that mercs are pretty important. Having more than one merc slot makes a huge difference... only way to get them is on the cash store. It's pretty obnoxious.
And that's the only thing that worries me in EQN. What we've seen of the game looks great, imo. And if they pull off even half of what they are saying it should be really cool. But SOE seems bound to this cash store heavy business model and it, to me, really cheapens the mmo experience and I'm concerned about that in EQN.
Im with the guys above....charge us 40 or 50 bucks for the game and charge a monthly subscrption fee and give us a good game. I really hate how every game has gone to this "free to play but nickel and dime you to death" business model yet the games get weaker.
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