I've been reading here and many other gamming website about how everyone is hoping, wishing, asking, complaining, fighting and tossed about if and how it should be either free to play or subscription to play. I was lying in bed the other night thinking about how I would like it to be if I was on either of their sides. I came up with this.

Free to play players would have to purchase things like these in the cash shop.

Subscribers would get access to all of these as long as they have a paid subscription. But every month the paid subscribers would get reward points. These reward points can then be used to permanently unlock these bonuses, so in time when you cancel your paid subscription and go free to play you'd still have access to the ones you have unlocked. (NOTE: Will take years to unlock all of them)

These in this list are permanent but some may have more than one. (I.e. character slots, storage, etc.)

1. Extra character slots. First two are free and you would have to unlock the rest. (NOTE: there may be one or more character slots unlocked

at a time. So you may have to purchase more than one to unlock all that you would like to have)

2. Extra character inventory space. (NOTE: there may be one or more to unlock at a time. So you may have to purchase more than one to

unlock all that you would like to have)

3. Extra storage or bank space. (NOTE: there may be one or more to unlock at a time. So you may have to purchase more than one to

unlock all that you would like to have)

4. Unlock cosmetic slot. (One or more slots at a time)

5. Unlock more auction house posting amounts (Free to play would have very limited amount of items they could post in the Auction house)

6. Unlock more mount storage in stables (Put stables in game so players can park their exta mounts in them)

7. Unlock more pet storage in (would have to add some sort of pet storage for players to put their extra pets in)

8. Global chat permanently unlocked. (It'll help keep out the gold selling sites from spamming in global)

9. Unlimited daily quests permanently unlocked. (free to play players would be limited in the amount of dailies they can do in a day without

this)

10. Dungeon limit permanently unlocked. (Free to play players would have a limit to how many dungeons they can enter in a day without this)

11. Increase harvesting speeds (Free to play players would take longer to mine an ore node, pick an herb, etc.)

12. Guild services could be like this as well. For say max guild member limit, guild storage, guild banner, guild icon, ect.

These are limited use items and will have to be purchase more than once to continue the benefits.

Subscription players will get these bonuses without the use of items to unlock them. BUT once a subscription player cancels their subscription they will have to buy these as well to continue these benefits. (These cannot be unlocked with reward points)

1. XP booster packs

2. Gold booster packs

3. Increased item drop rates

4. Increased gold drop rates

5. Reputation booster packs

6. Boxed item keys

7. Fast travel scrolls

8. NPC summon scrolls. (Summon bank, shop, stable master, etc. to you)

These would be normal cash shop items for EVERYONE to purchase.

1. Purchase an item that allows global chat with a limited amount of uses. (If they want to chat in global more often, then they would have to

buy more) (It'll help keep out the gold selling sites from spamming in global)

2. Respect scrolls

3. Name change scrolls

4. Race change scrolls

5. Change appearance scrolls

6. Bundles of crafting materials

7. Master crafter kit. (replaces all your crafting tools and can be used for all crafting. With this you save inventory space instead of having all

them crafting tools in your inventory.

8. Special mounts

9. Special companions

10. Special pets

11. Special housing items

12. Cosmetic items

13. Invisible cosmetic items or invisible dye. (This allows equipped items to not show on charecter in the slot it was used on)

Now these are just Idea’s and I know I would love to see the game work in many ways like the non-online versions have. But I know they need to make money. Also some players would rather have everything right away with a paid subscription. Then there are those that would rather not have everything available right away and buy what they feel they need or would like from a cash shop. Taking their time getting them or spending a mass amount of cash right off the bat to get them all and then play free the rest of the time. With a method like this it’s the best of both worlds and then some. I’m also sure there are many other things they could add to these lists and not all of them are what most of us (ME INCLUDED) would want them to do. But if those that want it free to play and ruin it for those of us that want it all with a subscription then we all have to deal with what they need to do. I just hope it don’t end up like all them other free to play games where the cash shop / web store (whatever they intend to call them) totally ruins the game. Because, most of the Free to play games get ruined from the F2P model. I for one am for the subscription and hope that that’s all they do but if they do have free to play I do hope they at least have a subscription as well AS LONG AS WE GET EVERYTHING NOT JUST SOME. I do not want to pay a subscription and then still have to buy inventory space, storage space, more character slots or anything else on that list. BUT with the reward system I thought up would be nice as I can unlock those features if I want to play free a few years down the road. I’d be like rewarding us for being a supporter and paying to play for so long.

Again its just an idea if they decide to go with the norm cash shop. Not all items can or will be in it. Its just a description to show an idea.

I my self would love it to be: Buy the game and its expansions later, play it free with just cosmetic stuff in a web store.

I'd also settle for a subscription

I do NOT want it to be free to play with the normal cash shop that even Neverwinter went with. Now a days its the norm.

If they did go with the normal cash shop with items like this I would like to see a system similar where we can have the option to subscribe and possibly with a reward system to unlock things when we decide to cancel subscription and rather play free from there.

I'd prefer B2P, but sure, although I completely disagree with

And some other stuff is questionable.

I 100% disagree with everything you posted.

This would just make it like every other run of the mill MMO. We are already going to have to pay for the game. Having to pay EVEN MORE just to gain access to little things and silly things like respec and race change scrolls would just be castrating to the game.

Welcome to the forums.

You just described every F2P with subscription option MMO on the market. The only thing known about how ESO will be making money is that there will be vanity items (no gameplay effects) in a cash shop. While people are very divided on the subject, the cash shop is coming, and some of us don't want to see anything more than vanity items (mounts, vanity pets, and the like) in it.

SCREEEEEEEEEEEE

sigh . . maybe we can have the mega server divide us up by payment model too

Race change scroll?

NO!

TES first MMO second!

no

Race Change Lol-a-scroll.

Wham you're a Mudcrab. Mudcrabs can't use scrolls so now you're stuck that way.

I totally agree. But I've played and tried many Free to play MMO's and most do stuff like this. I'd rather pay for game and play free or just pay for subscription.

Just vanity items would be awesome. Buy game, play for free and buy vanity stuff your interested in. That would be the best way to go. But since they won't tell us my guess is its going to be a bit if not allot more than that. If its going to be like guild wars where its buy and play free with vanity shop they would have told us that already. If its going to be subscription or the norm with cash shop then ya they will not tell us until its almost out.

Scroll, token, potion what ever they want to call it. Its different in every game.

And how would it make sense to race change? Do you just magically turn into another race?

Don't play many MMO's huh. Alot of MMO's with multiple races have a race change in some way even World of Warcraft has race change, class change, server transfer, faction change and what not.

Money should only ever be used in a cash shop to speed up the acquisition of something, not be the ONLY method of acquisition. Don't have 10 bucks to throw down for the Harcane Grove Unicorn Mount? Just grind up 20,000 filled lesser soul-gems and use those instead. Or whathaveyou. Planetside 2's cash shop is the way to go. We can either earn it or buy it, but always have the option for both. Cosmetic stuff maybe not so much, some of that's okay to be cash only, because it doesn't effect much but most things, like character transfers, appearance changes, most things listed in the OP etc, should be able to be earned in game as well.

Don't play many games with lore, huh?

I agree it should be B2P or P2P, but the suggestions youve made are terrible. They turn the game into a generic MMO. Ive played many MMOs too, and just because many others do things like this as money grabs doesnt mean TESO should too. TES is not a series that should be turned into a generic MMO for the sake of having an MMO.