What are you plans to keep current guilds involved for that long? We have been planning and organizing our launch plans for 2-3 tests now and most of us are on the tipping point of "burnt out." With the amount of activity this forum has right now for people that are bored of the game, it's surprising to me that you would propose that we be bored for 8 more months with no return on our time investment.
Don't get me wrong, the changes sound great (except the carebear pvp changes) and I understand it takes time to implement them but 8 months is a long time for gaming communities to keep their members involved and willing to play in a beta. I think I speak for all the guild leaders out there when I say; we're going to take a HUGE hit to our numbers when this extension news hits our ranks. People are going to simply NOPE out of the beta for sanity reasons alone.
Please can we jsut remove fast travel with Albion Online Itemsfull stop from the game, it realy hurts the trade and marketplaces all become the sameCan we also localise resources to a degree aswell round the map so some town have lots of 1 resources and lack of others.
All I can say is everything that was listed sounds amazing and touches on maybe pieces of feedback that has been brought up on the forums. The longer beta and pay for play is perfect
Please don't listen to these other people who may be upset about the extended beta or pay to play strategy. Take your time to make the game perfect and nothing in this world worth a damn is free.