Quote Originally Posted by Snabur View Post
First of all: Vips dont get the epics too, you need to purchase HD.
Second: Why Turbine need to worry about f2p players? If you're Free2play you NEVER put ANY money in the game to help mantain it. IMO if you want to play every epic in the game and go till level cap (no matter how much grind you need to do) you need give some money to Turbine, you're using the awesome content Turbine do without help them keep the game going and still complain.....
Thanks SO much Turbine, the Epics should be a extra for who purchase the exp packs.

PS: Sorry if i'm being rude, but i cant understand someone complaining about a company dont giving the best type of quests the game has to offer for free since you never put a dolar to help them mantain the game. It's like complain with Ferrari for not giving you the best car they have for free....
The whole point of letting the F2P folks into the Epic Questline was that poor people often have friends who like MMOs like LOTRO and can afford subscription fees and/or TP purchases. F2P-ers play the game, get their financially slightly better off friends to play, and then those people sometimes upgrade their F2P friends to VIP to have them as skirmish partners. $30 for two months of support from one guy, who has been surviving mostly by killing stuff quickly and with a minimum of health care needs, is well spent money.

A better car analogy is that Turbine is like a car company requiring that you buy the Ferrari before they'll even let you have a test drive. Those VIP Access fees are non-refundable, of course, unlike a purchased Ferrari.

Word Of Mouth Advertising is often ridiculed but, frankly, its the best advertising around, and any company which deliberately borks Word Of Mouth Advertising is in for a world of trouble. Word Of Mouth Advertising costs just as much as putting F2P folks on a "limited access" online queue and letting them have access to one major questline, the Epic. One can only hope that eventually Turbine--perhaps this is the plan all along, to boost F2P interest--hands off HD Epic access to the F2P folks after a few months of VIP-only access to the BB of the Epic.