WoW Goes Free Forever (Except Not)

samsonguy920

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Considering what Blizzard already has in the ingame store, they should just go to the F2P model completely. But I have to say, this is a good step in the direction. I have to wonder with the restrictions, if trial players can purchase items out of the store for ingame, or if the mailbox restrictions discourage that. Hopefully not as otherwise Blizzard would be hurting itself more.
 

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Zeriu said:
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And for roleplayers, having the game at all is half the experience.

Good GOD, they've made Goldshire even scarier.
May i ask what was and what is scary about Goldshire?
Not sure if we should shatter your innocent mind, but Goldshire on many servers pretty much became Bourbon Street of New Orleans, only seedier.
Lately, though, I have heard that it isn't so much. I guess the carnival found somewhere else to be. Probably Shattrath.
 

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Whatever, just wash your hands.
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Stick this on Steam and it'll be downloading in ten minutes!
they wont, no blizzard games are on steam, blizzard has its own online store that is worse then steam, I wouldnt be surprised if activision abandoned steam to just put games on it at some point

obviously blizzard is scared of guild wars 2 and how much ass it is going to kick
 

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A wise business move would be to make the MAIN game free none of the expansions. Then as new expansions come out possibly add an expansion to the F2P.
 

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That's actually a very fair deal tbh. I used to play WoW and I think it's a great game. Really my only complaint is that it takes too much time do anything. I kind of wish they'd hire more writers and jam in more content and less grinding. /endrant
 

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Must. Resist. I've been curious for ages but have never taken the plunge... Now that I can essentially play for as long as I want with no strings attached...
 

Digitaldreamer7

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Wow will never go F2P. It would end it's profitability and ruin blizzards credibility with it's player base. I can see them rolling it into Titan's subscription as an added bonus but never F2P. Blizzard has said and stands by the fact that they will never charge for something you need to play the game.
 

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Cmon the game still has 11,4 million player base.
Even if it goes down to 10,000,000 its still a huge huge huge money making machine. We know there is already another expansion in the works.
The game going free-to-play seems right now a bit of a stretch. I mean they drop to 2,000,000 subscritions and it will still be profitable to support the game. AND thats aaaaalot of people to lose. It can happen but when....5 years later?

Most MMO out there right now are praying to the gods at church every sunday just for 1mil. So i dont see the king stepping down anytime soon.
Unless his son Titan shows up and starts smacking heads around of which i have no doubts.
 

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Mister Benoit said:
Ickorus said:
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.
I doubt it'll go F2P soon, although they'd probably make more money by doing so.

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.
It's actually about 5.5 million China, 6.5 million US/EU split.
 

Jumwa

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It was just before Cataclysm hit that John Funk was interviewing Ghostcrawler and he cockily bragged that he didn't think WoW would ever need to flirt with Free-to-play like those other lesser MMOs.

How things can change so quickly.
 

Zaverexus

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I'll wait 'til its free to get sucked back into that.
And even then I would never play as much as I used to, if at all.

Sorry Blizzard, the old charm is gone for me now.
 

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Level-capping yourelf puts you in BG queues that take days, and you cannot twink without BoA gear anymore its simply not as efficient even if your in all blues a guy w/ 3 BoA's (requires an 80+ to get these on the same account) he will still wreck you. RPers can rejoice I suppose but I mean really who RPs anyways.
 

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Well I've always been an avid WoW player and have been urging my friends to give it a try, so now is a better term that they might accept it on since the aren't always on the computer. But I will wait until a day when WoW is totally free, until then I will continue to play multitudes of games and play wow when i feel the need to.