Guild Wars 2: Path of Free (playing without paying).
It's kinda complicated. Maybe a little too complicated. I only get 2 character slots, and I want to make more, but I must pay 800 gems per slot. To obtain these gems, I must get TWO sets of 5,000 achievement points (5,000 points generates 400 gems). To get these points, I must do all manner of things in the game, and only the ones that are access-only-to-paying-users have any good value number of achievement points. The sad part is it's got a REALLY good character creation system, which is pretty much the whole reason I got it (I operate it from an external hard drive because the game files are 40.43 GB, occupied mostly by one .dat file, which I cannot edit to mess with the game because I only have 8GB of RAM). This is why I quit using Steam. I cannot befriend anybody until I pay, I cannot send messages until I pay, I cannot comment on anything in the forums until I pay, I cannot access certain locations until I pay, I cannot buy certain weapons until I pay, I cannot earn sufficient points of any type until I pay, and if I did pay, it would automatically open up enough features that THE BENEFITS OF PAYING BECOME MOOT (except the gameplay experience).
Thankfully, you don't have to pay to join a guild, or else the goals would be unattainable and defeat the purpose of free gameplay entirely (a scent so strong you can almost taste it, but you can't sample it unless you pay... except then you get the whole meal). This is why full-version trial periods exist WITH basic free versions. All I can say is I am glad there is freedom in this game and I have no time limit, especially since I AM IN COLLEGE and have schoolwork to keep me otherwise busy, which makes me wish there was an idle skill-building feature.
I can say there are like ZERO bugs and ZERO lag, so that's a plus-plus.
If they could change one thing, I want the characters I interact with to speak their full dialogue rather than making me read it. I AM AN AUDITORY LEARNER. There are NPCs galore that you can't do anything more than GREET, but if you are present at the right time, they'll have LONG conversations that really don't have a great impact on the story. SO WHY NOT THE ONES THAT DO HAVE STORY IMPACT?
Detailed enough, Xkeeper?
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If I referenced UnderTale in the above post, it may or may not have been intentional.
[If] I have made this letter longer than usual [it is] because I lack the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal |
i started playing Danganronpa 2 after watching through a let's play of the first one
), but I'm finally getting around to it!!
