Buying a Silver membership is a one-time purchase of only 500 Station Cash or US$5.00 that, as compared to the Free membership, adds two extra character slots, two backpack slots, a larger character.

Originally posted by Gorwe

- chat is disabled(for most purposes)

This one I added is what would turn most from EQ2. I know why they have done what they have done, but it still is...obnoxious. Some people just have a need to chat(me included) and without the ability to do that...gameplay better be perfect. Fortunately, there is a LOT to do and it is, for all purposes, pretty fun.

So, if I purchase a character slot, I mustn't sub? Or it'll stay locked? That's THEFT! Or, if not that, a FRAUD. Felony, no matter how you look at it!

i was unaware that ftp chat is an issue - thanks for correction

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Character slots:

SOE gives the slots you pay for

total available slots = ftp slots + your addittional paid slots

Both Turbines Dungeons and Dragons Online and SOE offer more character slots with sub

both publishers lock your characters if you created more characters than free to play allows

even if you paid for extra slots (I'm speaking from experience)

what SOE does wrong (in my opinion) is this:

Turbine: ftp pick and choose what character slots will stay locked

SOE: your free characters are automatically assigned based upon the last time the character logged in

example:

SOE ftp gives you 2 character slots

you pay for 2 extra (total of 4 slots as free to play)

sub gives you 7 slots (or 9 slots with 2 extra paid slots)

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you go back to ftp but now have only 4 slots

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4 slots is 2 more slots than regular ftp

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but you may not get the specific characters you want