Quote Originally Posted by Hasrat View Post
Had a consideration. Rather than expanding the free trial, I'd propose they ought to expand on what the "base game" offers. As is, if you purchase the game, without any expansions, you get... pretty much exactly the same content as the free trial. Sure, a few minor inconvenience restrictions are lifted. But otherwise, there's almost no reason for that "base game" to even exist, it's just extra money you have to throw at them just to be able to purchase expansions.

Let free trial players actually feel like they're getting their money's worth by giving them access to more content when they decide to purchase the game, without requiring an additional purchase of the latest expansion to be able to do anything new.
No inconvenience restriction lifted. This is a huge red flag from the start. Nope, nope, nope.

They already aren't paying any money so why should they get "more" than they currently get? ~420 MSQ and over 100+ hours of gameplay for free is more than a trial player needs to see if they are "getting their money's worth".

The way the trial already works is they basically get 1-60 content for free and they don't have to "buy" the Starter Edition if they don't "want" to and can go straight to the "Complete Edition" (which is around the price of a normal AAA game but often on sale for 50% off). They can play to their hearts content in the 1-60 area with the current restrictions and if they want to move on, pay like *everyone* else did for the expansions. I've bought every expansion as they released, CE versions, and I think paying $60 USD for *ALL* of them is just a steal but yeah.

They can pay like the rest of us if they want more content.

I wonder how many people forget they used to be capped at level 35 ARR...