The following are the very basic problems that are causing much of these concerns, tensions, strife etc.
1. Paying players had to work very hard to save the game the first time. I can certainly simpathise with that.
2. The entire community (most, if not all players, p2p, f2p, dev, csr, whatever) fought for 2.0. It was really an amazing effort, and we shouldn't lose sight of that. Many of you posting here are being very disrespectful... Perhaps you would like to go back to 1.0?
In some ways F2P resent the fact that some P2P are pretty much giving up, now that they have what they want...
The message from some of these p2p is simple "We have our game again, we don't need you anymore, good luck with that."
Though threatening to unsub may have an effect, f2p players must take a different approach, and appeal to ethics and fair play--not to mention good morals. This is invaluable in this industry. I much prefer this approach to the alternative. Arguably, without F2P we would all still be stick in 1.0.
3. A very important concern is MOST F2P still do not know if even their identities are going to be retained after the merge. The issue of levels notwithstanding, at the very least, we simply need a way to retain our character's identities.
I suggest we stop fighting each other--poisoning the air--and see if something like 2.1 etc comes out of it, because if they can manage to save f2p levels, along with some very rare and hard to obtain p2p items, that would be a great achievement.
Given the way 1.0 was put forward, they probably don't mind if some p2p stop playing--that being the trolls--and I for one am going to stop feeding them...
1. Paying players had to work very hard to save the game the first time. I can certainly simpathise with that.
2. The entire community (most, if not all players, p2p, f2p, dev, csr, whatever) fought for 2.0. It was really an amazing effort, and we shouldn't lose sight of that. Many of you posting here are being very disrespectful... Perhaps you would like to go back to 1.0?
In some ways F2P resent the fact that some P2P are pretty much giving up, now that they have what they want...
The message from some of these p2p is simple "We have our game again, we don't need you anymore, good luck with that."
Though threatening to unsub may have an effect, f2p players must take a different approach, and appeal to ethics and fair play--not to mention good morals. This is invaluable in this industry. I much prefer this approach to the alternative. Arguably, without F2P we would all still be stick in 1.0.
3. A very important concern is MOST F2P still do not know if even their identities are going to be retained after the merge. The issue of levels notwithstanding, at the very least, we simply need a way to retain our character's identities.
I suggest we stop fighting each other--poisoning the air--and see if something like 2.1 etc comes out of it, because if they can manage to save f2p levels, along with some very rare and hard to obtain p2p items, that would be a great achievement.
Given the way 1.0 was put forward, they probably don't mind if some p2p stop playing--that being the trolls--and I for one am going to stop feeding them...