burgingham wrote:BlackKopcap wrote:Kitamie wrote:it was clear from the very beginning
No, it was not. Well, maybe for someone playing throughout a few years, and taking part in the developement of the community (7600+ forum posts cough cough), but for casual on-and-off-and-on-again players P2P thing was out of the blue. There is a reason things like pre-release notes and community managers exist.
Anyways, with all these downtimes I really see no reason to NOT give a 2-week free trial one-time-basis ('til, say, 14th of September) to iron kinks and damage-control the p2p shitstorm (balance the payment plans etc). The gametime will be frozen for half of those 2 week due to server being down, by the looks of it. And since it's a one-time thing it will not mess up the "bot protection via paid subs" shennanigan.