8 char slots!?Follow

some people on the EQ2 fourm are reporting that the got a 4 extra chariter slots.

http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=Newbie&message.id=56078

IF it is true, that they actually give/gave away 4 additional slots to peeps, where the free trial is about to expire as a way of "saving" them, then I gonna cancel my account.

either all or none in my opinion.

whoa... will log on at lunch and see then and report back here... both of my accts are allaccess... and yar i think that's not really fair if true :x.

Why on earth should I have to pay for an All Access pass if I don't play EQ, Planetside, or SWG? That's ridiculous to give a bonus to players of one game for signing up for all of them.

I have all access pass and only have 4 char slots.

If they're going to do this, they should do it for everyone who pays to play past the free 30 days. As a "thank you for staying with us" gift. Not just for All-Access accounts.

Actually this is no differant then comcast charging more for HBO and other channels, however they should have told their customers they were going to do this. I do have all access pass ( will have to check it after work for more char slots) I only play one char, in fact this is the only mmorpg that I've played and been content with just one. Wish I could donate my extra char slots for those who need it. Don't mean to hi-jack the thread but wasn't there a way to change servers? I still have a char on mistmoore.

Personaly, I think its a very sad joke and one of the reasons I do not plan to stay with the game past my sixth month time.

Every other game out there allows you to play several characters, 6+. Even those that do only allow you to have a fixed number of characters on a server, let you have extra characters on ANOTHER server.

This is just a very sad move to make more money. Simple as that.

I full expect them to start charging for patches next, and setting up an hourly fee to play the game. I guess 50$ up front is nothing and the monthly fee, is just for the right to put the box up on your desk and look at it.

If this is real, if everyone does not get 8 slots, I'm gonna be peeeessed.

Why the clunky bazaar system of player selling? To encourage us to buy extra accounts for merchant muling.

Now this.

People - time for "we the players" to get our act together and storm the Bastille. I have no patience for any Sony-sycophant who says "well just like HBO has the right to blah blah blah". Funk that. You are either a player or a tool of Sony. I'm a player. You say I want to bite the hand that feeds me? No, I want to bite the arm that STARVES and neglects and angers me - I want to bite it and rip it right out of its socket!

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this is, of course, your opinion, which you have a right to express.

however, i do beg to differ. i have a lot of alts, always have, no matter which game i play.

i play these games instead of watching sports, or television, or other things that i dont enjoy doing.

i'm not a powergamer, and i dont have any toons over level 15 at the moment. i play because i enjoy the game. i have alts because my friends may need a healer instead of a mage, and i'm told i play all classes well. or, maybe i just want to wander around being all sneaky and backstab goblins one day, and nuke them into the ground the next.

i hold a fulltime position as a web systems engineer, and everyone at work knows what i do with my free time. some of them play fps's, some watch satellite tv all day, some spend their lives garage-sale-ing. it's nbd to me any way i look at it, as it's their free time to spend. my judging their use of it is silly, and vice versa.

to each his/her own. if i enjoy the game enough to devote my free time to it, that's my prerogative. if you dont, that's your prerogative as well, and i wont judge you for spending your time as you see fit... it's not my place to :).

I think you can still upgrade if you are on the 21$ plan either way, it wasent just a benefit to resubsribers. It's a standard option now.

Now getting to the point, 4 characters, i was happy, but wished I had my 8, and honestly on eq1 I had 8+ easy, not all were 70 uber toons, but I have a bad habbit of quiting 1 toon to try others.

In any case, you guys got what you paid for 4 toons, 15 bucks. Its never been uncommon for sony to offer etra perks to those who shell out more money. Legends server... hmmm. Ya. Let's hope they drop 8 toons to the rest of us without having to fork over our first born, but come on people. It's not the end of the world. DAOC had 4 toons, later gave you 8. FFXI gives you 1 and charges you for additional up to like 32 toons. wtf. My good friend swears this is the best model. Maybe so. Anyhow, you got what you were promised , if you want more, pay up, if not , well... let it go. Play your game and be happy. =) Lets get upset about important issues like character balance and incompleteness of things that impair our gameplay. Not oo I cant have 500 ratonga brawlers on 1 account.

The thing about people comparing FFXI's method of character creation and paying per characer is that it is completely irrelevent to EQ2 because in FFXI you can try out every single class and all the different combinations available on ONE character, the only thing you aren't able to do it play every race, which doesn't make that huge of a difference in that game anyway, and there are only 4 races. Each character also was only $1. What Sony is doing right now is charging $7 for 4 extra slots.

In EQ2 you can only choose ONE path PER character and there is no going back one you decide which class you want to be. There are so many more combinations with the numereous races and classes that if you want to get a taste of everything it is impossible to do with only 4 characters.

To many people trying out different classes and races is how they enjoy the game, even if they do not max out all their charcters they are able to learn and experience all the types of gameplay available to them. In limiting the character slots to 4 they are severly limiting the players that wish to enjoy the game in that manner. Just because this isn't how you may choose to enjoy a game doesn't mean it's wrong. If they were to make it so that everyone can have 8 those people that wish to have more characters would be happy, and those that choose not to use all their slots would be completely unaffected.

I'm afraid some of you aren't "geting it".

Sure, it's insane for mature people to get crazed about a stupid game, right? And a company has a right to extend perks to those who pay more. Duh. And they have the right to nerf and nerf heavily, as they see fit - it's their world. They tell us that every fuggin time we log in. "YOU ARE IN OUR WORLD NOW." And folks, they mean it. But sure, to complain about it is crazy - only a useless moron without a life would do so - if I'm reading other posts correctly.

What you all are forgetting is that we have a right, and if we want to be treated with any respect, a duty to fight back when we feel we're being tooled around by the company. Let me repeat this - if we don't threaten them - if we don't let ourselves get angry - if instead we all tell each other "gee it's just a game - hey they own it - they can do what they want" - then we're all going to get exactly what we deserve.

The only thing that keeps a big company like Sony on the "right track" (i.e. providing us the best game possible) is fear of complaint and fear of losing business. If we don't get together and present a more unified front in term of demanding more respect and a better game, then what can we expect? Like I've said in other posts, I don't expect any one posting to have an effect. But over time good ideas can trickle up - and I sincerely hope my fellow players will consider this and give it a shot.

The other side of this coin is that, imo, Sony needs no defenders among us. I cringe each time I see one of you defending them. In my opinion our debate should be "okay, you're mad at Sony, but is what you're saying really going to make the game better? Hey, what about this...." And never "Sony is doing a pretty good job, okay, so stfu" - they aren't doing a good enough job. THey never have and never will. We need to stay on their cases, always.

Sony is the casino - they are the dealer - and we are the blackjack players. If we protest effectively, we actually can get the casino to make the rules more in our favor - to give us a better experience. Yes, the casino ultimately takes our money - but if we have better odds we have more fun. Can't you see this?

If hundreds of players simultaneously did /feedback with the exact same comment, we'd get noticed. If thousands did it....

I suggest: /feedback Give us all eight slots within two weeks, or I will not renew.

Please stop mindlessly defending Sony. They aren't saints. They don't see us as clients - they see us as nuissances. They have always had the tone that we are the almighty, creative geniuses who crafted this wonderful world - you should feel lucky we let you in. Please don't feed that monster. Fight it! And yeah, to those of you who say "well if you don't like it, just quit" - yeah - I may have to. It's a pity - cuz they got so much right this time - to have to quit because of their beancounter mentality (8 slots only for those who pay - a clunky bazaar system designed to coerce you into buying an extra account so you can have your merchant character up while you play w/ your main) - dammit. This is the time for us to band together and fight this crap. Not each other!