Is Throne and Liberty Pay2Win? This is how to play Amazon’s new MMORPG if you don’t want to spend any money

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Thanks to a lot of new information about the payment model of Throne and Liberty, it is now possible to imagine how great the disadvantages are for players if they do not spend a single cent on the MMORPG from NCSoft and Amazon Games.

Shortly before the start of the open beta of Throne and Liberty, publisher Amazon Games revealed for the first time what the payment model of the free-to-play MMORPG will look like at the worldwide launch on September 17, 2024.

So how will the new online role-playing game from the New World creators and Lost Ark maintainers be played if you don’t want to spend any money? Based on all the information known so far, MeinMMO will try to answer the question below.

What can you spend money on in Throne and Liberty?

The monetization of the MMORPG is based on the following pillars:

  • Selling early access packages that promise up to five days of early access
  • Selling units of the currency Luzent for hard euros
  • Providing paid paths for the Growth Pass and Battle Pass
  • Selling cosmetic items such as outfits, transformations, dyes and emotes via the in-game shop

    • Not included at launch is the optional Solisium Blessing subscription, which is known from the Korean version of Throne and Liberty. Amazon Games has left it open whether the blessing could be added in an adapted form at a later date.

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    What is the point of investing money in early access packages?

    The exact contents and prices of the Early Access packages are not yet known. However, anyone who wants to get started with Throne and Liberty as early as possible will have to invest the money for such a package – there will be up to five days of early access.

    However, in addition to the early launch servers on September 17, Amazon Games wants to provide additional launch realms where you will only encounter characters that were created at or after the official release. The head start for package owners is therefore limited to the early launch servers.

    What is the benefit of investing money in Luzent?

    With the real money currency Luzent you can buy items from the auction house and the in-game shop or pay for the paid paths of the Growth Pass and Battle Pass. The good news: You can also earn Luzent,

  • by selling items in the auction house
  • by participating in certain activities such as castle sieges or tax transport events

    • If you play Throne and Liberty in an active guild and regularly complete the corresponding content (or regularly sell something of value in the auction house), you should earn enough Lucent to be able to pay for the passes and one or two investments.

    Buying Luzent with real money should therefore be particularly interesting for players who don’t have that much time, are alone or belong to a small, less active guild, and who still want to afford the growth pass, battle pass or expensive items from the auction house – such as loot from non-instanced content such as the world bosses.

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