Today SOE announced that we will be able to buy character slots in starting October 5th in both EQ II and EQ2X. In EQ2X slots can be purchased at any account level (Gold, Silver, Bronze) and will be in addition to whatever slots you have at your current level by default. For example, if you buy two slots at Bronze and switch to Silver, you will have a grand total of five slots. Slots will be ten dollars apiece.
This makes a heck of a lot of sense for SOE financially. With the 1-80 leveling game being free, there isn't really a whole lot worth spending money on right now on a Bronze or Silver account after you have your current character slots filled. Plus the character slots will have a snowball effect for many players, where they will buy a slot and a new race and class to fill it. I will have to think long and hard about whether I want to roll my traditional Troll Shadow Knight in addition to the three toons I have now. In any case, this is definitely a "Yipee!" from where I stand (the land of hopeless altoholics).
Thank goodness I'm not an altoholic or I'd have my credit card out now. It is an obvious move for SOE, but it's also the right one. I wonder how many people have been chafing at the character limit.
ReplyDeleteI have been chafing at my three character limit believe it or not. I'll likely be buying a slot this weekend and at least one new class.
ReplyDeleteIf you're Silver $10 on a second account gets you 3 extra slots instead of $10 for one extra slot.
ReplyDeleteStabs,
ReplyDeleteBut not owning the same class and race slots
@Stabs: that's a good idea, save that the shared banks aren't connected and silvers can't mail anything. For me a lot of the fun of alts is having them craft stuff for each other.
ReplyDeleteOn a completely unrelated topic, I bought Sentinel's fate last night off of Direct to Drive based on your blog post. Heck of a deal.
@ Ian You don't need to buy your race and class packs for every account. I have a Shadowknight on one of my accounts. I don't need to buy Shadowknight on any other account because I've got one.
ReplyDeleteI have the troll +2 race pack on that account. On one of my other accounts I'll buy the other evil pack.
Also the starter races and classes are quite good.
@ yeebo Yup it was an excellent deal. Glad you caught it in time.
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