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<\/center>Now we know the answer to why LEGO Universe recently had a new level system added<\/a>.<\/p>\n
It’s not a coincidence that LEGO has just announced that LEGO Universe is now free to download and has a free area to play in.<\/p>\n
Understand that this does not make LEGO Universe free. All too many times, companies talk about games being “Free-to-play” when what they really mean is free to play up to a certain point. In my view it’s an extended trial, because unless you pay the monthly fee(s), you are not going to be able to play the entire game.<\/p>\n
That’s not a criticism of the game, that’s a criticism of the “free-to-play” wording that companies use.<\/p>\n
And you can actually do quite a bit within the free areas of LEGO Universe:
\n* Create and customize your own LEGO Universe hero
\n* Collect up to 10,000 coins
\n* Earn U-Score to level up
\n* Explore the Starship Venture Explorer
\n* Explore Avant Gardens
\n* Join the Nexus Force
\n* Sample powerful Faction Gear
\n* Play the Survival mini-game
\n* Battle the Spider Queen
\n* Build and bring your creations to life on your own Block Yard Property
\n* Visit thousands of other players\u2019 Properties
\n* Buy and collect cool gear and useful items<\/p>\n
If you are familiar with LEGO Universe, that may not seem like much, but now that it’s a free download and that you can try all of the above for free, it’s actually pretty good.<\/p>\n
I’ve been fascinated with LEGO Universe on and off since it was announced, and yesterday’s move prompted me to spend a few hours trying things out. It’s come a long way since the first days and there has been some drama involve with ownership and development of the game itself, but things seem to have worked themselves out and I would say you ought to give it a chance and try it out. <\/p>\n
With the free areas, from the few hours I played, you can get a very good sense of whether it’ll be worth the $10 a month to fully subscribe to it.<\/p>\n
Brickset has a good writeup<\/a> about the free areas and the account restrictions on free or trial accounts, as well as a press release<\/a> from LEGO as well as the official homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now we know the answer to why LEGO Universe recently had a new level system added. It’s not a coincidence that LEGO has just announced that LEGO Universe is now free to download and has a free area to play in. Understand that this does not make LEGO Universe free. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,74,35,45],"tags":[30,93,56,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlybricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}