It seems a lot of MMOs are now shifting to the Free to Play model. Just wondering if Blizzard will do the same? Also if they dont and future MMOs will adopt the free to play model will that hurt WoW?
It seems a lot of MMOs are now shifting to the Free to Play model. Just wondering if Blizzard will do the same? Also if they dont and future MMOs will adopt the free to play model will that hurt WoW?
I hope not, that would be a really bad move. The value of the game drops a lot when it goes f2p
Ever ? Who knows.
In the near future ( 15-20 years ) ? No.
I really hope not. So much that will degrade then.
Do I ever hope it does, then these people with the misconception that free to play means a drop in quality would finally realize that's not true.
WoW doesn't even offer that much content or quality, and WoW's profit margin and the amount they spend on other games goes to show how little (relative to the total) goes back into WoW.
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Not with the amount of subscribers it has, it would be really really stupid. If sub numbers dropped to like 2 million or something, then maybe, but it's gonna take a really long time before that happens.
Someday maybe. Not while they're making as much money with it as they are now though.
Plenty of MMO's are adopting F2P and it's probably had some effect on WoW but the game is still a license to print money for Blizzard.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
I hope not. I hate the F2P model. I have to go to the goddamn store to get almost anything. That's lame-sauce.
Only when the number of subscribers drops below 200.000, which will never happen
many mmos shift to F2P because these are bad games that failed. WoW is doing great, so no, sorry.
prehaps some day, but not yet its doing far too well to go F2P atm.
anyway if they finally do, i hope they dnt go the way EA/Bioware did with SWTOR did. thats a pretty messed up F2P model.
doubt it.. it prints money and whatnot.
i would really love it it went B2P tho. like their other games.
I like my coffe like my mages.
That could very well be something that tanks them down to under 1M subs though. F2P is a terrible idea for a game so firmly established and deeply rooted. People will quit before they pay money to raid, and then more to pvp, and then even more to pickup gear to do either, when it's been covered by a reasonable sub, along with everything else in the game for years.