“You either pay for the game, and get all the benefits. Or you mooch and stay in your lane.”
I have so many responses to that…
When there isn’t a dedicated player base for these free players to play with they don’t have fun.
In Anarchy online froobs only really played with paid players until about level 60 as a lot went to SL after lvl 12-25 and might come back to RK once and awhile.
If you want a steady influx of new players you need to keep dangling the carrot… if you give paid players a crap ton of new content and gear then people who for whatever reason can’t or won’t pay to play might stop playing for free and just move on. The more content paid got the less they interacted with Froobs.
If SL had been open to froobs with restrictions then froobs would have had a lot more interactions with paid players and got a feel for both worlds.
Anarchy Online has a lot of content after SL so they could of offered more to froobs. And Froobs and Paid interacting helps a lot of new players and even paid players enjoy the game.
I hope you aren’t disrespecting froobs by calling them “Mooches”, I personally believe if it wasn’t for those “mooches” AO would have died a lot sooner and I might have never gotten into the game.