Thread: Which penalty should be removed/less strict for free players?

Originally Posted by Mirarian

Send 3 mails back to back because you are mailing your alt some thing and bang stuck twiddling your thumbs until it decides to let you send another.

I realize these are there to keep gold sellers etc from spamming and shifting inventory around but my god it is BEYOND aggravating. They should be able to loosen it up SOME.

I wonder if this is one of the things that gets loosened up if you go Premium.

Originally Posted by Shukar

I wonder if this is one of the things that gets loosened up if you go Premium.

It sure gets loosened when F2P goes Premium. Mind you, not fully removed, but you won't notice limits, unless you start to mail to everyone in server.

Originally Posted by Shukar

I wonder if this is one of the things that gets loosened up if you go Premium.

It does get loosened up bigtime with premium. I am premium now and can vouch for that. I just think it is way too strict on F2P folks. I agree that it needs to be there, I just think it is over the top rough to the point of making the game miserable even to chat with someone at a normal pace.

I can see alot of folks saying to themselves something along the lines of... I can't even talk with my friend no way I am going to stay in this game much less PAY for it. This I think actually hurts retention/conversion of players rather than encouraging it.

The restriction is more on 'talk pc1' 'talk pc2' 'talk pc3' etc - its almost no restriction to talk to single player other that to make him accept you as a friend first. There is reasonable restriction of talk to several players in a short time - since thats what 'gold spammers' do - send tells to everyone online. Also, there is no restriction on kin and fellowship talking, so you can chat wih your friends just fine.

Same about mail - one can sell a lot of letters to single target as a F2P, but once he wants to send to several players, then restriction kicks in, forcing to wait 30 seconds between switching message recipients. Simply to cut down on amount of spam generated per minutes.

Originally Posted by Hatter_of_Bree

The restriction is more on 'talk pc1' 'talk pc2' 'talk pc3' etc - its almost no restriction to talk to single player other that to make him accept you as a friend first. There is reasonable restriction of talk to several players in a short time - since thats what 'gold spammers' do - send tells to everyone online. Also, there is no restriction on kin and fellowship talking, so you can chat wih your friends just fine.

Same about mail - one can sell a lot of letters to single target as a F2P, but once he wants to send to several players, then restriction kicks in, forcing to wait 30 seconds between switching message recipients. Simply to cut down on amount of spam generated per minutes.

I disagree. When I was F2P I couldn't have a conversation with my sister in PM without hitting the sending messages to fast time to wait thing constantly. Not a bunch of people at once, just one person and a normal conversational pace.

Same with mailing HER stuff. One person not many. After 3 mails then wait for 30 seconds between each.

It drove me nuts.