i've tried wow, it's horrible, nothing but a worthless grind.
Why on earth would I want to play it? nothing has changed, nothing will.
Why on earth would I want to play it? nothing has changed, nothing will.
WoW Goes Free Forever (Except Not)
- Thread starter John Funk
- Start date
This is good for those wanting to make a trial account to play game plus for RP related alts if the ten character slots are already filed. I hope blizzard doesn't try to abandon subscriptions for equally flawed micro transaction system like someone above said. The only issue with trial accounts though is last I head they can't send whispers only reply and that is a big deal. Especially if some people use this to rejoin game but end up not being able to whisper any friends if they have no other way of contacting them with /say or /yell.
Dunno after all this time Wow has been around even the "shy of the curious" have tried it. Even those that didn't wanted to pay for it have played it to death since there are hundreds of private servers. So I guess they do this just to prolongue it since last I heard they lost around 1 milion active players only to Rift(can't remember where I read this). Also the power of Wow was that people didn't wanted to start again in another game but today there is no reason to play Wow since there are better MMOs out there(not making names just because each have their taste).
I think it's two... Inn and Blacksmith (Is that called a Smithy?).cursedseishi said:
OT: Hey, I actually wanted to do that. But then I didn't. So I didn't.
Yay...
How am I supposed to take WoW seriously when sentences like "I made my character a twink" are both commonplace and said without irony?
I think WoW is going to be forced to go free soon enough, I believe one of the higher ups in Blizzard actually once said that if he market changed enough and they got good competition they would likely go free to play.
In the next couple of years the game is going to be bombarded from several different directions by new and decent looking MMOs, I actually didn't even realise how many until a few days ago.
Incoming MMOs:
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Guild Wars 2
Archeage (this one looks very interesting, still not certain about it yet but definitely something i'll be keeping an eye on)
TERA
And of course Rift is already here and doing fairly well for itself.
In the next couple of years the game is going to be bombarded from several different directions by new and decent looking MMOs, I actually didn't even realise how many until a few days ago.
Incoming MMOs:
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Guild Wars 2
Archeage (this one looks very interesting, still not certain about it yet but definitely something i'll be keeping an eye on)
TERA
And of course Rift is already here and doing fairly well for itself.
Gotta remember Blizzard's project Titan, their new MMO in the works. If Titan ends up popular enough, they can make WoW free and still make money. If Titan tanks... WoW can easily make up for that.Ickorus said:
It's a win-win situation.
You forgot to mention GW2 in the article. Its quite possibly a much bigger competitor than TOR. Yes, TOR is going to have a billion SW fanboys playing it for a while, but from what I've seen its gameplay is just more of the same.
GW2 however has a fresh take on the genre, and it doesn't even require a sub to play it.
GW2 however has a fresh take on the genre, and it doesn't even require a sub to play it.
Get to Level 20
Realize because you dont own Wrath you have no BoA Gear
Be Assraped in PvPz
or
Realize Everyone is an Elitest Dbag
Leave This God Damn Game
Find Something Fun to Do
F2P:
(coming soon) Fallen Earth
(coming soon) City of Heroes
Lord of the Rings Online
Etc
Realize because you dont own Wrath you have no BoA Gear
Be Assraped in PvPz
or
Realize Everyone is an Elitest Dbag
Leave This God Damn Game
Find Something Fun to Do
F2P:
(coming soon) Fallen Earth
(coming soon) City of Heroes
Lord of the Rings Online
Etc
I think since SWG is closing and the SW fans will move their....realize its not a sandbox style game...and that its basically World of Star Wars....that it will take a blow...Feriluce said:
GW2 seems like it could very well take a lot of the cake in the aftermath of the TOR
Will GW2 be Free2Play?
I would assume so....but things change
Wow Blizzard is getting desperate doue to so many people nto playing anymore. But it seems to be working.
I doubt it'll go F2P soon, although they'd probably make more money by doing so.Ickorus said:
About 8 million of their subscribers are from China which still hasn't gotten the 3rd expansion yet.
The 3 million NA players are a chunk but certainly not the bulk. I think WoW will just slowly deteoriate then stabilize.
F2P WoW... Granted not a reality yet but... just scary to think that I might soon have $30 more a month back in my pocket without having to quit again.
Probably would be F2P but pay for expansions/races/level caps and non-gameplay affecting gear (vanity).
Or even pay for premade toons... which would kill the game.
Probably would be F2P but pay for expansions/races/level caps and non-gameplay affecting gear (vanity).
Or even pay for premade toons... which would kill the game.
I think there's still plenty of support for subs if the game deserves it. I feel like the general perception is that being successful with a subscription indicates a better game than being successful without. This is not necessarily the case with every game, but when going F2P is basically a marketing gambit for games going downhill, it's hard not to see it as an inferior option. Personally, I just prefer making one small payment per month and getting the whole game instead of having to make a separate purchase decision for every game enhancement.rembrandtqeinstein said:
I think this goes several ways. In a sense GW2 is not competing because no-subscription means players don't necessarily need to drop a second game. So people can play TOR and GW2 and only pay one sub a month. Also, GW2 is high fantasy while TOR is sci-fi, so they may appeal to different groups. And of course, the IPs have different fanbases. Assuming both games are at least reasonably fun in their own ways, I'm not sure if we'll see a whole lot of direct competition, at least not any more than you see from any other game release.Feriluce said:
But then I've never seen this as a zero-sum game. There's room for more than one game out there, as evidenced by what I see as a rather healthy assortment of options still surviving. With WoW on what appears to be a decline, I think we'll see an MMO market with several high-profile titles instead of one aging behemoth.
Well, that's neat...the article title got my hopes up for a free(ish)-to-play WoW, but oh well...maybe one day