Like every F2P I tried, making honest alts is very expensive. At the same time creating endless accounts as mules, bots or for free giveaways is unlimited and free to powerlevel. As if they wanted you to cheat them.
Also as every F2P it ends up more expensive on average compared to P2P. They need to make more to make up for the instable income. Or in other words, you pay extra tax for the priviledge to decide when and how much you want to pay.
No big issue with that until they start to make parts of game crap to sell more stuff. When it comes to decide between better game vs more money P2P goes one way and F2P the other. Well, most do.
In the end, EvE online is probably the best model - there is limited option to play for free with subscription cards being tradeable in game and you can branch your main into alternate paths. It is way to special in all other aspects though. F2P really needs to get out of scamming mindset if they want to compete with P2P. RoM does not try at all and is run of the mill F2P scam scheme as far as cash shop goes.
Btw: Do not come to F2P with "max" mindset. The ceiling is high to give you the freedom to pay as much as you wish (and in the end too much for what you are getting).
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Like every F2P I tried, making honest alts is very expensive. At the same time creating endless accounts as mules, bots or for free giveaways is unlimited and free to powerlevel. As if they wanted you to cheat them.
Also as every F2P it ends up more expensive on average compared to P2P. They need to make more to make up for the instable income. Or in other words, you pay extra tax for the priviledge to decide when and how much you want to pay.
No big issue with that until they start to make parts of game crap to sell more stuff. When it comes to decide between better game vs more money P2P goes one way and F2P the other. Well, most do.
In the end, EvE online is probably the best model - there is limited option to play for free with subscription cards being tradeable in game and you can branch your main into alternate paths. It is way to special in all other aspects though. F2P really needs to get out of scamming mindset if they want to compete with P2P. RoM does not try at all and is run of the mill F2P scam scheme as far as cash shop goes.
Btw: Do not come to F2P with "max" mindset. The ceiling is high to give you the freedom to pay as much as you wish (and in the end too much for what you are getting).