Let players return for free for a limited time?

[MrDDT]

I would like a peak as well. For the almost 40$ we gave at start this would be a fair trade I think. Do not forget that Xsyon is in the higer levels of games when it comes to price.

If you already bought the game. Xsyon is giving free game time sometime soon. Check the updates page for more info.

[jemmus]

Cool, I'd come back for a free test. I keep plugging Xsyon in the other MMO I'm currently doing.

[Hawks282]

I think some sort of trial would be a great Idea and it's a great way to promote the game a bit better then just a warning email.

[Willowhawk]

I think some sort of trial would be a great Idea and it's a great way to promote the game a bit better then just a warning email.

They want to do free trails Hawk but the problem is you would have tons of players coming in terraform everything in sight then quitting. We already have 100s of abandoned ugly terraformed sites. Which is why the totem decay system is coming in soon. It's easy with other games were everything is cookie cutter. It doesn't matter who comes in nothing changes. I can't see any good way to offer a trail except to have a separate trail server and everything would get soooooo fugly in no time at all LOL. Oh I guess they could keep resetting a trail server

[Archangei]

"trial" for members that already bought an account could work

[aliksteel]

I'm in the USA and our Sub is $15 a month. I'm not rich by any means, But $15 is not a lot to pay for a month of playing. So I'm not getting what the big deal is, If you own a copy of Xsyon already. How is $15 (or what ever it is for you) holding you back? I can half way understand if you have never played the game and your looking at, What?, $40usd.

What keeps popping up in my mind, If your having this much of a problem paying $15, How is the next $15 going to come any easier? If $15 is the barrier that is keeping some people out of the game, I don't see how they will ever be able to play Xsyon.

[Hawks282]

They want to do free trails Hawk but the problem is you would have tons of players coming in terraform everything in sight then quitting. We already have 100s of abandoned ugly terraformed sites. Which is why the totem decay system is coming in soon. It's easy with other games were everything is cookie cutter. It doesn't matter who comes in nothing changes. I can't see any good way to offer a trail except to have a separate trail server and everything would get soooooo fugly in no time at all LOL. Oh I guess they could keep resetting a trail server

Understandable, but you can limit trail accounts to be able to do everything except terraforming

[MrDDT]

Understandable, but you can limit trail accounts to be able to do everything except terraforming

What about attacking and looting other players?
What about planting trees? Or cutting trees?
What about dropping baskets?

All these things cause issues for the players around them.
A lot of this game is terraforming also BTW.

[Kegan]

You know i have thought about this game and how it could be switched over to a free to play model and here is some of what i have come up with..

1. Skill level cap - I guess this would have to be no lower then 25 as you would get some skills to that level on character creation.

2. No Totem - As a F2P you would not be able to have your own tribe so your only means of playing is either join a tribe of a P2P member, rent a spot with the new real estate system or be a nomad roaming the lands.

a. This would solve the terraforming and mass totem problems that would come from F2P model

b. If a P2P player laps in payment/subscription he would revert to F2P and his tribe would start decaying as if he had left the game.

3. Carts/Mounts - Restrict them from using carts and maybe mounts when and if they come out?

Once you revert from P2P to F2P your skills would be capped again but as soon as you pay they would go back to where they were before. As far as the trees and baskets go we can plant more trees and baskets will be full loot soon so that's not a problem..IMO

I think this would bring in tons more people and if the developers were worried about that $40 for the game then maybe have it so you have to buy a totem or something to make up the difference..IDK One thing for sure in this day and age the F2P model is what seams to be working the best. Just look at all the games that are switching over and are thriving now with the F2P model.