Vanguard: Saga of Heroes going free-to-play
Sony Online Entertainment is sending yet another of its MMORPGs free-to-play, planning to open Vanguard: Saga of Heroes up to all this summer. SOE's also ramping up development a little, expanding the team to make new content.
Sony Online Entertainment is sending yet another of its MMORPGs free-to-play, planning to open Vanguard: Saga of Heroes up to all this summer. SOE's also ramping up development a little, expanding the team to make new content.
Details on how exactly Vanguard will run as a free-to-play game aren't settled, but director of development Andy Sites says it may be "similar to" EverQuest and DC Universe Online. Expect tiered memberships with optional subscriptions, microtransactions for items and boosters, and the usual F2P fare.
"We've had a dry spell of game updates over the past few months," Sites wrote. "That said, I'm happy to announce the drought will be coming to an end this week, with our first scheduled update since last December. We plan to roll out game updates MUCH more frequently than years past, which will include general improvements, new content and more. "
According to the F2P FAQ, its "tentative time frame" for the F2P relaunch is summer 2012.
Vanguard was created by Sigil Games, a studio founded by EverQuest veterans who left SOE. However, less than four months after the game launched in 2007, the assets of Vanguard and Sigil were acquired by SOE.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes going free-to-play.
Sony Online Entertainment is sending yet another of its MMORPGs free-to-play, planning to open Vanguard: Saga of Heroes up to all this summer. SOE's also ramping up development a little, expanding the team to make new content.-
This could possibly be awesome. ShackGuild incoming? And I think you meant Expect not Except, Alice.
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I do. It's fun..
I wrote this about it a while back.
http://rwillmore.wordpress.com/
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I used to play this as a necromancer night elf and a black night class(forgot the name) werewolf race, it was pretty cool game.
Man it took a long time for it to be free to play, I think this was the first Unreal 3 engine MMO was real pretty when I played.
My only beef(back in the day) the economics on gear was all crafting by players, so if you had no players you had no gear to buy, of course there where drops and quest, but I like stores personally. -
This game is rich with fantasy
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What does that even mean?
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Wow...this took forever. No one has been playing for like...8 or 7 years? Especially after SOE put their nasty hands on it.
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Came out in 2007 so, no one has been playing it for about 4 years 6 months.
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oh wow, thought it was earlier than that! Ah well, the game still sucked. EverQuest will always be my one and only favorite MMORPG.
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Tried the trial a few times but the servers were always dead, seemed like it had potential if they had the population numbers to support the grouping content. Hopefully f2p gets enough people playing.
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The best experience I had with this game was doing the diplomacy quests for the evil cat race, which actually had a lot of interesting story about them being the real bad guys - a terrible invader race. However, that all ended pretty quickly once you got into the main game world, and diplomacy became super-generic.
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If I remember correctly, they were tricked by an even worse race and stranded on Telon, putting on hold their cross-planar hunt.
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FUCK YES. FINALLY.
Also, I did a little sound program thingie if anyone goes back to playing:
http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m?topic_id=56848
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It fixes BSOD errors for me when using X-fi hardware sound, which was really how the entire thing got started. The 5.1,6.1 and 7.1 software mods were things I was happy to add via openal-soft for people who don't use hardware sound at all. It's a work around, but hey, it works.
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He did. Had all sorts of personal issues and vanished. Development went on for a few more years with hit or miss results. Most of the performance issues are resolved, but it still has its rough patches. F2p is a great idea for it though.
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It wasn't a popular model back then. Their eq2 and eq1 FTP versions have been huge hits for them.
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True, but this is SOE we are taking about here. Smed helped launch EQ and even set the now "standard" $15 price tag for monthly fee's. He wasn't about to drop that and go F2p until LOTS of others had proven it could be done with a profit.
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he seems to have learned that lesson exceptionally well. like really really well, omg lets make oodles of money - well. I think the formula goes like this
Star wars + children + microtransactions + weekly new hats = MOM I NEED ANOTHER 1000 Station Cash points
fuck you SOE, fuck you for attacking my wallet through my kid-
Haha, owned by your own spawn.
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This game had so much potential. Came out extremely buggy and then a mass exodus of players killed it off. If they would have been allowed to finish we would have had a gem.
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