124268-suggested-changes-for-trial-accounts

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The current setup for Trial Accounts (like mine is for the next few days) is rather limited, and while I can understand the logic behind some aspects of it being restricted, like the inability to buy/sell CREDD or to form guilds, I think that much of the current state hinders new players getting into the game.
 
For example,
Chat restricted to Say, Yell, and Party chat.
/Ticket ingame is disabled
This is the major hang-up I have, since it seems rather counterproductive to promoting the game. Why? Because it greatly interferes with new players' ability to interact with not only existing players, but the developers as well, preventing them from any real kind of in-game socializing or inquiry not covered by the built-in help notices, unless the person they want to talk to is within earshot.
 
Pair this with the limited timeframe of the trial, and you end up with the possibility that a lot of otherwise-potential players get driven away by the lack of interaction and inability to have questions answered leaving them to more-or-less stumble around much of their week-and-a-half and become rather disillusioned with what seems like an interesting game.
 
Heck, I speak from personal experience here - I first signed up during the last 10-day trial, and was left to ineptly discover things on my own through most of it, leaving me about a day or two left in my trial to enjoy the majorly-promoted-features of the game like housing and such, because, without the ability to readily communicate with folks in the chat channels I'd see merrily scrolling by, it took me the biggest part of the trial just to get one character leveled up high enough to unlock housing, and barely enough money to buy anything to put in it.
 
What might be a good idea is to do is to alter the time-frame of the trial-accounts the way WoW eventually did with their free trials, which was to extend them beyond 10 days to unlimited time, but retaining the existing trial restrictions such as the caps on levels and gold.  Also, they allowed trial accounts to chat in city general channels and whisper, which Wildstar's trial settings currently prevent, as they admitted something WS's devteam still hasn't - the current limits made it very difficult for new players to ask questions and learn more about the game, if they were so limited in being able to communicate with existing players and had only a narrow window of time in which to do so.
 
And before anyone implies I'm only doing this for my own benefit (and I won't deny that's at least partly true), in the long run, these changes can only improve WS's population, as a more user-friendly trial version will encourage more folks to stick around and buy the game itself, just as WoW's changes helped it.	
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			Yah, we should absolutely be able to converse with trial players on all channels!  You have an entire army of free, dedicated, salespeople who are chomping at the bit to help sign up the trial players into the community!  If only we could do our job:)	
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I don't really want whispers opened up, as that will just mean spam from plat sellers. But the ability for a paid account to friend a trial account and open up communications would help alot. I also worry about opening up /zone and /advice.
 
As far as I know, there's no restriction to joining player created channels, and I'm pretty sure both factions on the PVE servers have their  unique player-made channels for LFG/general chat.
 
Entity Exile: /chjoin lfg
Entity Dominion: /chjoin EntityLFM	
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I don't really want whispers opened up, as that will just mean spam from plat sellers. But the ability for a paid account to friend a trial account and open up communications would help alot. I also worry about opening up /zone and /advice.
 
As far as I know, there's no restriction to joining player created channels, and I'm pretty sure both factions on the PVE servers have their  unique player-made channels for LFG/general chat.
 
Entity Exile: /chjoin lfg
Entity Dominion: /chjoin EntityLFM
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I don't really want whispers opened up, as that will just mean spam from plat sellers. But the ability for a paid account to friend a trial account and open up communications would help alot. I also worry about opening up /zone and /advice.
 
As far as I know, there's no restriction to joining player created channels, and I'm pretty sure both factions on the PVE servers have their  unique player-made channels for LFG/general chat.
 
Entity Exile: /chjoin lfg
Entity Dominion: /chjoin EntityLFM
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