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[Dalthalion]

Now that City of Heroes has come out with their "Freedom" F2P model, I went back and began playing on my old, inactive account (which was now a free account).  I was amazed to see what I still had to work with, even on a F2P basis:

• Even though most of the characters (I had about 30+ in total across a four servers) I created have to be unlocked with PP, a.k.a. Paragon Points, I was given eight free tokens to unlock the ones I wanted to play for free, even if they were all on one server.  Compared to LOTRO F2P's allowance of one free character slot per server, I think I'm getting a better deal with CoH than I would if I were a free-to-player in LOTRO.
  
• All the content I had unlocked before my account went inactive was still there and available.  That includes all the costume pieces, special powers and character slot maxima per server that my loyalty rewards unlocked.
• My loyalty rewards increased while I was away, and I now get to choose new goodies, including minor skill/stat modifiers.  Amazing.  NCSoft's loyalty rewards program for CoH is so dynamic and substantial, that I wish Turbine/WB would do something similar.
• I don't get to make use of the Going Rogue character mechanics (basically, the "toughness" improvements for characters who reach the level 50 cap - no, they didn't have to increase the cap to have characters be viable), but if I want to I can just buy the Going Rogue expansion, which would be a reasonable expense.
• Since I went on hiatus, they went back and improved the aesthetics of the place.  It looks really nice now.
• So far, all the game zones my characters were able to enter before are unrestricted to me, including zone raid events.
• They improved their client software.  It's much nicer than it was before and less IE-dependent.
  

It's a nice change-of-pace for me, when I've had enough of LOTRO lag for a night.

[SellingTheDrama]

Dalthalion, on 04 April 2012 - 19:24, said:

Now that City of Heroes has come out with their "Freedom" F2P model, I went back and began playing on my old, inactive account (which was now a free account).  I was amazed to see what I still had to work with, even on a F2P basis:

[list][*]Even though most of the characters (I had about 30+ in total across a four servers)[font="Palatino Linotype"] I created have to be unlocked with PP, a.k.a. Paragon Points, I was given eight free tokens to unlock the ones I wanted to play for free, even if they were all on one server.  Compared to LOTRO F2P's allowance of one free character slot per server, I think I'm getting a better deal with CoH than I would if I were a free-to-player in LOTRO.

so in lotro terms you were not a free player, but a vip downgraded to premium.
in lotro one of my VIP accounts was downgraded to premium and i went from 7 allowed to 4.
not such a bad deal.
also in lotro a trule free account is allowed TWO toon slots per server not one.
which just so happens to be the same base for all accounts in CoH.

[Dalthalion]

Hm, if free players get two slots per server, then Turbine needs to change its comparison sheet, because that's what I went by.

Nevertheless, the fact that I got to play a lot of my favourite characters on one server, made the return to CoH very convenient for me.  It's like I picked up right where I left off.

[SellingTheDrama]

Dalthalion, on 05 April 2012 - 17:06, said:

Hm, if free players get two slots per server, then Turbine needs to change its comparison sheet, because that's what I went by.

Nevertheless, the fact that I got to play a lot of my favourite characters on one server, made the return to CoH very convenient for me.  It's like I picked up right where I left off.

lol..they never update anything and afaik thats be wrong since day1.
my sons free account which i made when lotro changed over has always had access to 2/server.

and i agree about coh...i checked out my old account then turned it over to my 11 year old.