Blizzard: WoW Won't Be Going Free-To-Play
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In all honesty, no, there won't really be a wow killer any time soon. People are rooting for Guild Wars 2 and The Old Republic, but it was the same thing with every big MMO since wow launched. Warhammer, Star Trek, Champions Online, Age of Conan. From what I heard, the next MMO to do good after WoW is Rift with somewhere around 3 million subscribers, but don't quote me on that. Also, there's EVE, but management and accounting simulators don't count.
I think the only thing that will kill Blizzard's MMO is Blizzard's next MMO.
I think the only thing that will kill Blizzard's MMO is Blizzard's next MMO.
For an MMO I like only having to pay a flat fee and not worrying about all the other monatization and gimmicks put in place to part you with your money. For myself I would only consider a FTP MMO if I had no choice. I enjoyed what little of Firefall that I got to play at PAX but I will not be playing it.
Didn't realise the drop was that many, last time I'd heard about it it was closer to the numbers I had (with the exception of the 11 million, I guess).Rawne1980 said:
Blizzard is already sitting on a mountain of money, they really can't make a 'wrong' move at this point.
Dude, City of Heroes is F2P now? Man I really liked that game. I should pick it up again sometimeKitsuna10060 said:
You are right in a way.Archemetis said:
The number released that was picked up by every forum and gaming website was the first 600.000 loss.
The rest of the losses need to be looked for.
Easiest way is looking at sub numbers from last year up to now which is down from 12.4 million to between 10 and 11 million.
There is speculation that it's lower than that but nothing to back that up yet (most speculation has exact active subscribing players in US and EU at around 3 - 4 million but that doesn't include the Asian continent that has several million of it's own).
I do know Blizzard admit they have a constant bleeding of subscribers but it's slowed down recently.
The point a lot of people seem to miss is it's not that people are disliking WoW anymore it's just that it is coming up to 7 years old and people are wanting something new.
My question to all the people saying WoW will go F2P is this, how on earth is Wow supposed to work as F2P? They start putting up advertisements in game? They start selling items? I for one don't really want that in WoW and I think paying a fee is a good enough trade off to keep that away.
I'd say the free-to-play should wait til at least a year after the final expansion, and even then only if subscriptions go down. Personally, I'd just prefer to see a slight price drop or at least in-game availability of things currently requiring purchase like the sparkle pony.
