The way it's set up now will kill the Live servers.
You won't be able to transfer from F2P -> Live. So nobody that's using it like a "trial" like SoE, will ever switch after getting their character up in level. No new blood at all coming to Live.
You can't really transfer your character from Live -> F2P at all, because all you get to keep is NO-TRADE and ATTUNED items. No Money, no harvestables, or any other misc items (like say house items). This pretty much means people from live aren't going to spend $35 to move a character over.
Of course, I still think this is a big ruse so that at FanFaire they can announce how while they were going to make it separate, they "listened" to the playerbase and are bringing F2P to all the normal servers to prevent them from dying.
And, as much as I don't want F2P model coming to the Live servers (especially if they don't grandfather us in on the races), its the only way that the current population on Live is not going to get the shaft.
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