Predict World of Warcraft subscriber numbers if it went F2P.

[Gimlix]

As the title says, if WoW ever went F2P, how much Subs do you think it will have.
Will it grow in your eyes, or will it even decline more?

[Guyviroth]

None, because... Free to Play?

[Gimlix]

None, because... Free to Play?

I ment, how many players would it have.

[klaps_05]

wow was supposed to have 300-400k players tops, so you can use that as a benchmark

[Guyviroth]

I ment, how many players would it have.

Oh! Not sure. I would say more simply because people won't have to justify spending a fee to play a game.

[mistahwilshire]

It would raise very high initially in reaction to the news and then it would decline faster than ever as it descends in to a clunky cash shop disaster like every single F2P MMO that exists.

[bohapjut]

zero, because people would no longer be subscribed

[Pann]

Assuming they used the same payment system as SWTOR and Rift I would guess about 3-4 million, maybe more (but a lot would depend on how they classify Chinese subs), subs and a further 10 million or so players, how much they would spend per month is anyone's guess.

[Baelic]

Assuming they used the same payment system as SWTOR and Rift I would guess about 3-4 million, maybe more (but a lot would depend on how they classify Chinese subs), subs and a further 10 million or so players, how much they would spend per month is anyone's guess.

NO, I will leave if content gets cut-off and made into a "free-zone" and "payed-zone."

[ythemaster]

I can't imagine WoW with in-game shop. It's disgusting for such legend game. I hope WoW never go to f2p model.

[BirdLady68]

People would stop seeing it's value and stop playing....probably wouldn't be updated and patched as frequently and that would cause it's decline more. F2p would be the death of wow.

I quit playing SWtor about a month or so after I got to max level. Didn't enjoy it (couldn't find groups and I was a healer playing with a tank friend O.o) ...tried it once or twice when it went F2P, haven't been back since.

[Deleted]

zero, because people would no longer be subscribed

This.

Clever.

[MatadorMedia]

Well, seeing as how the populations would have to drop to under 1 million subscribers before ever going free to play, it would clearly decline.

[Deleted]

Depends on the model really.

[Deleted]

it would go down to 0 subs.

[Deadite]

I can't imagine WoW with in-game shop.

Not sure if serious or sarcastic?

Anyways it would have zero subs if it was free to play.

[Soulwind]

It would grow fast, but the game would provide less money to Blizzard, and they would reduce the development quality A LOT.

[Anklebiters]

F2P would kill wow imo, would make any decent players quit due to poor service and mass amounts of botting. i would rather pay then go f2p, you think the social aspect is bad now open it as f2p and find a nice hole to hide in

[Boricha]

Well it would have 0 subscribers if it were F2P obviously....but I think the number of people playing it would go up 2-4 million for about 2-4 months and then it would decline again at a much higher rate than currently.

[Deleted]

Assuming quality stays the same: Amount of players increase significantly, but the average "quality" of the players goes down.