…a level 10 cap for trial players. I suspect this is relatively new, as I never encountered it when I played last time around.
I’m in Oilville at the moment, having gone through most of the missions in Boneclaw and South Burb. The last couple of days have been productive. I’ve been boosting up my stats, dumped the old nag and got myself a riding horse, and I’ve just generally been running missions and leveling up…until just a few minutes ago, when I hit level 10 with this new toon. Now every time I do pretty much anything in the game I get a pop-up message telling me that I’ve reached the level cap for trial accounts.
Wow, that was fast. I’ve still got another nine days left on my fourteen-day free trial. I realize that the point is to annoy people just enough that they’ll subscribe, but hey, there has to be a limit. There’s the pop-up ad you see when you originally log on, there’s all the other ads and limitations you deal with on a trial account, but the least Icarus could do is not impose a level cap so low that you hit it so early on in a free trial. Everything else is fair game, but when you start fucking with the gameplay you’re going to start losing players. No wonder this game is going free-to-play…can you imagine how many trial players hit that level cap as quickly as I did and then moved on? I can.
Currently, I’m debating with myself whether or not it’s worth pushing on now without any experience gain, or if I should put the game aside until I’m able to drop by the local GameStop and pick up one of those 60-day special offers. Once I have that, I’ll then have to decide once and for all if I want to reopen my old account or keep going with the new one.
I dunno. I’m going to have to give this some thought.
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