Vanguard: Saga of Heroes Free-To-Play Date Released

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You may remember a few months ago we reported that Sony would be converting its MMORPG, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes to a Free-to-Play model. The MMORPG was originally released in 2007 and quickly declined in popularity, although it picked up some steam in recent months after Sony began updating the game more frequently.

Today Sony Online Entertainment revealed that Vanguard would officially launch F2P on Tuesday, August 14th, only a week away! No word yet on what will be changed to fit the new payment model but Sony did state that the developers have been working on improving the game for the F2P launch. Some of the improvements include revamped starting areas and no more class restrictions for any race.

With Bullet Run just releasing, Planetside 2 beta beginning this week, and DC Universe Online as well as the Everquest series already F2P, Sony really seems to be embracing the F2P model as their model of choice.

Will you give Vanguard a try come August 14th? Let us know in the comments below!

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Michael Dunaway
Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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Discussion (23)

Thessalya 12 years ago
so many false rumors.

First:
there are restricted classes. Yes.
But you may play all of those until lvl20 for free to have a look at first. Thats something most f2ß don't offer.

Equipment is NOT only white stuff!
You may wear greens and a whole and very numerous bunch of blue ones and yellows too.
All items from the revamped quests are designed for f2p as well.

And the unbind item is now at about 2$ for 5.

Vanguard has more content than 10 other f2p games on the market combined.
So why always cheese about "wahh.. i am restricted..and this in a "free" game!!"

you CAN'T play a f2p game for free. That's why this model is such a successful businessmodel to earn money :P
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BeaverMan 12 years ago
I don't mind the class/race restrictions to be honest. There's plenty to chose from the free pool and it's a fair thing to charge for in my opinion. But i've been hearing around the net that there are restrictions on the type of equipment you can use in the game. They've been saying that you can only equip common white items and that in order to equip anything above that you must either sub or buy an item from the cash shop that will only remove the restriction from a single item at a time. The item in question is priced at about 5 dollars and can be used a total of 5 times. That just seems totally unreasonable.
Chewie 12 years ago
Class/race restrictions are all I need to hear, not even going to try and get into the game.
562 12 years ago
Feature Transfer Error
great
562 12 years ago
Ain't much a game player, but this look fun and cheesy. 1st game ill download on this computer
Fauzruk 12 years ago
In fact, the game just went F2P huhu, they decided to release it one week early apparently.
Bishonen 12 years ago
Well if it goes F2P i might give it a try , i lately experienced too many fails in the P2P scene .
Jethrayne 12 years ago
If this is going to be anything like Everquest's f2p models, then no thanks.
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okoice 12 years ago
LoL so many games god dammit o_O gad i have only 130 GB left :O
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SanitysDemise 12 years ago
This game released it's f2p today.
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Ikniz 12 years ago
what is the official website for this game? I can only find the forum and the install page.

install page -> http://vanguard.station.sony.com/install/
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tommi49 12 years ago
when cbt open
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