The age of P2P MMOs is over? Is WoW one of the last games of that type?

[grandpab]

I'd honestly rather see the majority of the market be b2p games. I have no problems paying the cost of the initial game, and I love being able to log in and play without paying for a month when I only want to play for a week.

[Themerlin]

I am F2P anytime, anyday of the week. All you need to do is pull my lever.

[Sughs]

Even though i can't fully understand how they can support a game that way, i think the future is B2P with a store for cosmetic stuff. For example, Guild Wars 2.

[Deadite]

But that's because they aren't as big as WoW, having less subscribers also means you can please them easier.
WoW *had* 12,000,000 it's way to hard to please them all.
Even now with 7,700,000 it's way to many players to listen too.

WoW is still doing great, and won't go F2P for long time.

Less than half of that 7.7 actually pay a sub fee. When you take into account they lose hundreds of thousands of people per quarter WoW isn't the unstoppable behemoth is once was. I agree with you tho. Blizzard know they have such a subservient player base they can get away with both a cash shop and sub fee. So i doubt it will go free to play for a good few years. Hell UO has maintained a sub fee for nearly 15 years.