Originally Posted by
Gurbz
Even those "free-to-play" MMOs will probably end up costing you money, especially if you want all the things that WoW includes as part of the subscription. Want an extra bag slot beyond the 2 free ones? $5 per month. More than one character slot? No problem, only $15. How about that new raid we just developed that drops all the new BiS gear? We'll unlock it for only $3 per month more. Or you can just give us $50 and we'll mail all that gear to you without you needing to actually complete the content.
Free-to-Play MMOs are still run by companies that are looking to make a profit. The only difference is that instead of charging you up front, through a subscription, they charge a little bit for all the extra features. They are almost like a drug dealer, in that the first taste is free but if you want more it'll be $$. They are basically counting on a certain % of their playerbase being willing to fork over the cash for all the extras so that they turn a profit.
Seriously, when did it become evil for a company to want to make money? Blizzard is providing a service that, in most circumstances, was not available before, and is not necessary to play the game. If you don't want to pay for the service, you can choose to not use it. You people act like Blizzard just announced that it will now cost $25 to be able to equip anything better than greens. THAT would be evil, cause they are impacting game play, and charging for something we used to get automatically.