BlueTsunami said:
Thats the crazy thing, F2P players cannot post to the auction either (need to buy that for 295 Turbine points). I thought I could circumvent that by trading person to person, guess not. It would have been nice if Turbine allowed at least one auction post to F2P users.
That's what I meant. To prevent gold farming they keep F2Pers from being able to transfer money easily (without paying Turbine).
So as a regular player, you can earn more than you need for yourself in game, and cant send gold (also to prevent mule farming). You can trade items for items, you can buy off the AH if you need and want to.
You can't auction stuff which prevents you farming materials then auctioning them off, and you can't send money, which keeps you from having much utility to amassing large money amounts.
If you pay Turbine, which is what they want, then it opens up those avenues to transfer money.
I think it makes great sense, and 295 points is all of 3 bucks, so its not expensive. Remember they want people to look at this as a build the game to suit their playstyle, not as an everything for free model. So paying say 20-40 to get the game the way you want it should be acceptable as that was the relative price to buy the game in the store.
