It's been announced that that GamersFirst has taken acquisition of Fallen Earth and is planning on making it a Free to Play game. Check out Fallen Earth's facebook page here mentioning it. Another article found here strongly discusses how this is going to work out and the new F2P business model coming. GamersFirst is going to be creating a studio exclusively working on Fallen Earth in North Carolina, allowing the old team of Icarus Studios to all continue working on the game. This'll allow the game to hopefully stay on the same course and not change significantly. But as it's going to become F2P, a load of new players will arrive and chances are the chat is going to be very annoying. I only played the 7 Day Trial so I don't know how strong the learning curve was but it seemed like there was one, hopefully some of the annoying ones won't make it up the hill. The Free to Play business model will be like the below:
Free: This is to be considered an unlimited free trial, by which players will be allowed to play the game from end to end completely free if they'd like. They just won't earn any reward points.
Silver: This tier will cost less than the current sub price (which is currently $14.99 a month) and provide the same content. All subscriptions (Silver, Gold, and VIP) will also earn enhanced XP gain.
Gold: This will cost the same as the current sub fee but offer more reward points and bonuses each month, which can be spent in the item shop. So you'll be getting more for the same price.
VIP: With this top tier (which will most likely cost more than the current sub fee), players will have the ability to share their VIP bonuses with everyone in their party in the form of a VIP "aura." So if one person in your party is VIP but the rest are free players, everyone in the group will still reap the rewards of this aura. These rewards are also stackable, so if you have a full party of VIP members, you can expect some crazy boosts for everyone in the group.
Also, the game will be a free download from the GamersFirst site, but the company will not be removing either the current stock of boxed copies being sold in brick and mortar stores or the Steam digital download. If you do buy a boxed copy, you'll get some sort of subscription compensation to equal things out. Details on this haven't been finalized yet.
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