Hello all,
First of all, may I emphasize that this is merely a thread with some general complaints I have. I’ve been playing this game for 2-3 years now and of that time a majority of it I was playing as a VIP. I have characters on Elendilmir and Brandywine mainly. All my characters should be in my signature at the moment. Furthermore I’ve been playing games like EQ, EQ2, GW, GW2 and Rift for a good amount of time.

I would like to post a screenshot of the “benefits” of being a VIP is as shown on your website.



Generally I wouldn’t mind paying or purchasing a product I like, but as of recently I’m beginning to think that you take your patrons for granted. Due to the length this post would take I’m not going to go into detail about these benefits, other than merely saying that half of these benefits are obtainable by making a single purchase from the store. I doubt if anyone who has been playing this game for a fair amount of time would consider anything in there worthwhile to justify a subscription. But nonetheless, that is just my opinion and I’m there are those who disagree.

Just a few more points I think should be brought up:

PVMP : A new expansion is bought out and there is nothing in there to promote a higher level of interest there . No gear , jewellery , audacity and a slew of bugs. Considering this was beta tested and released I would have at least expected the minimal amount of effort put into it. Yet the changes indicate something thrown together for the mere sake of it. Also as a creep player I have bought certain skills on my characters; do you have to charge for the same skills again across multiple game worlds?

Store Pricing: Each month a VIP is offered 500 TP yet let me show you the price of certain things in the store.


Legendary / Specialization Slot unlocks : As a VIP having to purchase the Legendary slot unlocks and Specializations? If I wanted to get a Specialization Page for each tree I would have to pay up 200 coins per character per server (Both the trait tree and the Helms deep tree)? Does no one else think this is a bit extreme? The cost of Mithril coins is shown in the picture above. The 500 TP offered is negligible to the amount required.

I could go on and on about the umpteen things I find that rather displeasing but to keep it short I’ll just list them out. Click on compare benefits which happens to be a link on the website. Someone should really at least consider updating the website. Each time I subscribe (I year each) it takes 1 – 2 weeks to get my points updated. Problems with the game can be found faster on twitter / facebook then the actual game website.

Perhaps IM going to take some flak for what I said from die hard fans . But before you do I just want to make sure you understand that I don’t mind paying. I just find it rather disappointing the extent of nickel and diming is going on . Although I’m rather doubtful that this post will make any impact at all I do hope someone in Turbine actually reads it and bring some kind of changes to the game which would make it more worthwhile to being a VIP.