Originally Posted by
nophex
Hello!
Thanks for all the feedback on the store changes. I wanted to take a moment to answer some concerns you have raised. We will take your feedback into consideration and will incorporate that into future updates. I also wanted to take a few minutes and explain some of the upcoming changes and how the store revamp fits into those. We are trying to make the entire experience of the game better and I feel it will be noticeable once we have introduced the membership changes and added the raid finder.
First up is the membership changes Romain has mentioned in his Game Director’s letter. Since we launched the Unchained version of the game we have had a lot of feedback on the free-to-play version of Age of Conan. We really want to improve the experience for both free to play players and members! One of the biggest complaints is that if you purchase the expansion and drop your membership you can no longer use the expansion. We will be removing the membership requirement to access any of the content that you have purchased. In addition, we are making the Alternate Advancement system accessible to anyone that plays the game. You don’t need to buy the expansion or be a member to gain AA xp or use AA points.
In addition to the above changes members will receive the following bonuses:
• Bonus XP and PvP XP (for normal XP and AA)
• Free Teleports – Members will receive a stipend of teleport coins each month
• Increased Token gains from Raids, PvP, and Khitai tokens (excluding rare trophies).
• Increased Faction gain
• Purchase AA with time starting at level 20
• Double rewards from Unchained Caches
• Members get a free AA point per level gained
• +7 Characters slots
• Increased Quest limit size
• Unlimited gold capacity
Members will also be included in a Loyalty Rewards program. After you have been a member for 30, 60, 90, 180, and 360 days you will receive an exclusive Loyalty item. Additional rewards will be added for every 180 days of membership past 360 days. We will start revealing these rewards in the next few weeks. Finally, we will be lowering the price of the 30 day membership!
We will also be introducing a daily login bonus and daily challenge system that will have free items for everyone (F2P and members). The daily reward bonus can be claimed once a day and includes shop exclusive items like the new shop potions, teleport coins, resurrection potions, gilding tokens and a lot of other great items. The daily challenge system will include a list of challenges that will reward you with similar items to those listed above.
The raid finder will also be launching at the same time that we roll out the membership changes. Each week you will be able to group up with your fellow members and fight through one of nine raid instances (made up of the already existing zones). We will launch with some unique rewards that are only available from this system and will be adding new rewards every few months.