Yesterday we reported on a video where CEO Miguel Caron of Funcom Canada told the Montreal Gazette that Funcom would be trying to launch the The Secret World open beta before Christmas. Today Funcom has responded to it stating:
Open beta will not be initiated before Christmas, but will be a part of our strategy next year prior to our April 2012 launch.
Also mentioned in the video was that TSW would have a subscription fee somewhere between $15 and $17 and a response to that was given as well.
Funcom has not yet made any official announcements regarding the business model or price points for The Secret World. This is still being discussed and evaluated internally, and we will make an official announcement when this has been finalized.
So for those of you hoping for a Christmas open beta, you’re out of luck, and I guess the free-to-play model lives for another day.
Why don’t they copy the guild wars model this time? Buy the game and play4free maybe with an additional (balanced) item shop. Thats my favorite pricing model…:)
November 4th, 2011 at 2:06 pmQuote
BECAUSE GUILD WARS IS NOT AN MMO YOU IDIOT!!! Guild wars is a piece of crap RPG, it is like a broken mmo for people who fail at MMO. THE ONLY part that is online is a city to form a group. That is called LOBY. so it is basically a virtual chat room. NOT AN MMORPG. you GD noob.
November 5th, 2011 at 6:13 amQuote
#1 Calm down/grow up – just as you like
November 5th, 2011 at 6:33 am#2 Don’t know where I stated that I believe GW 1 is the same kind of game. Nevertheless GW 2 will be a true MMO which I had in mind: http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/game-faq/
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I don’t see why they just don’t do the type of things DCUO does. Yes, it was P2P at first but, they eventually made it F2P. They had an idea that it wasnt completely F2P. Premium access was $5 if you cash shopped just once so if you didn’t like the game you didn’t feel stupid paying for something you thought you would of liked. Then they have a legendary account which is basically access to everything which was the simple $15 a month. It’s basically access to everything (All DLCs, Max inventory/bank/auction slots, and etc.)
March 16th, 2012 at 9:25 pmQuote