Global Agenda going full on F2P*

[SunnyD]

Not that anybody cares.

ATLANTA - April 7, 2011 — Hi-Rez Studios today announced that “Global Agenda: Free Agent”, the latest update to the Shooter MMO, will enable free-to-play access to all of the game’s current playable content and levels with no purchase required.

The version 1.4 Free Agent update, expected to go live in mid-April, will support free play across all character classes through level 50. This update also introduces a new Dome Defense Raid as high-level player content, a CTF- style Mercenary PvP game-mode with pilotable robots, revised skill-trees across all four character classes, and other changes and content.

For an optional one-time purchase of $19.99 USD (£13.99 GBP,€15.99 EUR), players may upgrade to Elite Agent status, which will accelerate the rate of earning character levels, gear, and currency and also grant access to premium features such as the login priority, auction house and in-game mail. All players that have previously purchased Global Agenda will be automatically upgraded to Elite Agent status.

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Effective immediately, until the Free Agent expansion launches:

Global Agenda is available for $19.99 (£13.99 GBP, €15.99 EUR)
Upon release of the Free Agent expansion, any player who has purchased Global Agenda will automatically be upgraded to Elite Agent status

Below is a summary of the differences between Free and Elite versions of the game:

Free Agent

No Level Restriction
Ability to earn all of the game’s current items without spending real money.
Access to all of the game’s current playable content, including:
Sonoran Desert Open Zone
Special Ops PvE (1- to 4-person Co-Op)
10v10 Mercenary PvP
4v4 Arena PvP
Double Agent PvPE
10-person Defense Raids (including the new Dome Defense Mission coming in version 1.4).
Agency vs Agency Gameplay (AvA)

Elite Agent - One-time purchase of $19.99 (£13.99 GBP, €15.99 EUR)

Earn End-of-Mission XP at twice the rate of a Free-to-Play user
Earn End-of-Mission Credits and Tokens at twice the rate of a Free-Play user
Earn End-of-Mission Elite Loot upon winning an instanced PvE or PvP match
Choose which PvP game types you would like to play when queuing for Mercenary PvP.
Access the Auction House
Access In-Game Mail
Less restrictive chat capabilities
No ads for in-game voice
Ability to create Agencies
Higher Login priority

Both Free-to-Play and Elite Agent players can optionally purchase Boosters within the Global Agenda webstore. For a timed period, Boosters will:

Double XP, Tokens and Credits earned in Game
Provide 2,000 tokens a day for free
Provide an extra end-of-mission Boost Loot drop

 

[bactiman]

its unfortunate not too may people play this game. classes and weapons are pretty well balanced. if anyone's is interested, I have 50% off coupons they can use. only works at the hirez store.
if anyone does join add me as a friend. My in game name is zandra, I will get you started with mods.

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[gizbug]

Yah, this game never did catch on with people.

 

[boozie]

I can't describe it very well, but I feel like it takes too much to kill someone. That combined with "BG" queuing w/ 1 other person max seems pretty crappy. I'm never really played enough to comment on late/end game stuff. I did some AvA even as a lowbie and got rolled though (as expected).

 

[SunnyD]

I can't describe it very well, but I feel like it takes too much to kill someone. That combined with "BG" queuing w/ 1 other person max seems pretty crappy. I'm never really played enough to comment on late/end game stuff. I did some AvA even as a lowbie and got rolled though (as expected).

I can explain it. It's Tribes... but not.

Basically it's HiRez's warmup to their upcoming Tribes MMO.

 

[boozie]

It's certainly not a bad game. I bought it real cheap on a D2D sale awhile back. It just couldn't hold my attention. I'll probably give it a whirl again when I get an SSD and upgrade from my 8800 GTS.

 

[Zargon]

I really enjoy it, esp for the 7 bucks I paid for it.

 

[Arsinek]

The thing that made me not want to try this game was, like the other guy said, it looked like it took too long to kill someone. I can understand making it so it takes a little more then a regular FPS to kill someone but dont make it like taking down a raid boss where you just sit there endlessly attacking something. Also they added too much weird stuff, like swords, if I wanted to play WoW Id play WoW, either make it a FPSMMO or just make another fantasyMMO like the million others. Then there was the fact it didnt have a persistant world which I think is a must for MMOs. Oh well.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I like the idea, never tried it, but if they are having to steep to F2P, things must not be going too well...

 

[Arsinek]

Also the characters looked kind of gay. Like a poorly done scifi cartoon.

 

[AVP]

My favorite game ever, more so than valve games or any other shooter. I liked it at first, wasn't in love and was kind of busy, but picked it back up late summer and ended up winning 11 AvA seasons. I recommend that everyone give this game a serious / new look because the competitive play is a lot of fun.

1.4 is going to completely re-balance the classes and add more viability to the non-survivability specs, so I recommend that you all check it out.

 

[bactiman]

patch 1.4 (F2P) is coming out 4/14/11

http://hi-rez.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/244

 

[Ben90]

I loved this game until Hi-Rez decided to ban me repeatedly.

 

[Arsinek]

I just dont understand why there are no FPS MMOs out there. It seems like such a no brainer. I havent tried this one but it was never very appealing to me after watching videos of it and whatnot.

A WW2 FPSMMO seems like such a great idea. That one company has one but they seem too low budgit to make anything of it. If the COD guys made one I think it could be something big.

Then you could do your scifi shooter. Something in a futuristic setting, maybe a little space piloting.

But instead were bombared with fantasy mmo after fantasy mmo. Im glad someone at least tried with Global Agenda but Im not sure they did such a good job.

 

[AVP]

I loved this game until Hi-Rez decided to ban me repeatedly.

Closed?

Patch 1.4 just came out. The new dome defense raid is a ton of fun, and class trees were reworked so that every class isn't playing balanced spec. Its hard on someone like me that has played one way every match, but should help out average players. Also if anyone decides to upgrade to elite status I can throw some credits/mods your way. just pm me

 

[Karstein]

I enjoyed playing GA for a bit, but ultimately went back to playing other stuff. One thing that I hated about GA was that most of the back-end stuff was godawful - the auction house & crafting systems were terrible for starters.

Looking forward to the next Planetside at this stage.