WoW Goes Free Forever (Except Not)
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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.
Not sure if we should shatter your innocent mind, but Goldshire on many servers pretty much became Bourbon Street of New Orleans, only seedier.Zeriu said:
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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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 pointGeneric Gamer said:
obviously blizzard is scared of guild wars 2 and how much ass it is going to kick
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.