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What games do u guys think wil go f2p in less then a year.
IXBEAR
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As the title says. if u guys got more suggestions post below .
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If anything, Vanguard.
The rest, beyond WoW/AoC (and only for the sake that they are doing well) are impossble to make F2P and protect the failsafes revolving around PvP and the market economies at the same time. Just look at it as if having the ability to make infinite free accounts has a good chance of breaking something, anything, then it will.
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SWG
A good example, but it's not likely that you would get a house for free, and even if it was a paltry amount of money to place one, you'd have single-players set up an entire city of their own houses. Each assigned to their near infinite amount of accounts.
It would have to go hybrid model like DDO, where joining the regular sub allows that kind of thing.
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WoW will never go F2P. I'm not even sure why it's even on this list...
NEWS FLASH! PAYING THE SUB IN F2P = NO DIFFERENCE THAN P2P GAMES!
Why the hell can't the whiners comprehend this?
never say never and also im not aplying that its going f2p .
STO
F2P/P2P excellent thread.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/282517/F2P-An-Engineers-perspective.html
I don't think any of those will be anytime soon.
Though I want to say AOC, not because it might be doing badly, but simply because i'm a F2Per and really want to have this game lol.
Oh ya! Well, I have a friend that has a uncle who is related to someone that knows the janitor at SOE!
And they said that it will go free 2 play this year with limits. 0 lots are part of the free version among other things.
Since Janitors know alot about cleaning up crap, I take his word on SWG.
This is a lie.
I worked at SOE and they outsource cute hispanic ladies to do that, and they are told nothing beyond how pretty they are in an apron.
The security guard would have a better idea than them. He was cool as all hell, but he's still not likely to talk.
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I didnt see "None of the above" as an option. DDO and LOTRO do not a trend make.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
SOE hasn't evolved enough to turn games into F2P yet. They've made a Free Realms which is f2p yes, but it was designed from ground up to be a f2p game. Smed seems to be happy to continue milking paying subscribers while shoving RMT down EQ/Vanguard players.
So as long as he's making money there while maintaining a skeleton crew, I can guarantee you he's happy. They got bigger better things they're working on, I doubt they'll approve to even spend time/money to turn Vanguard/SWG/EQ into f2p.
EQ1-AC1-DAOC-FFXI-L2-EQ2-WoW-DDO-GW-LoTR-VG-WAR-GW2-ESO
sto
there adding things to their cash shop at an amazing rate (including a lot of things you would think would be in the purchase of the game) and because from accounts on there official forums the game has a dwindling population
edit: eves a bad choice on the poll imho, there skill points over time system forces you to subscribe if you want to keep up with other players in game. it would be foolish to change a succesful money making system. wow is massively succesful so that ones not gonna happen.
IF THE ONLY DEFENCE FOR CRITICISM OF A GAME IS CALLING SOMEONE A TROLL OR HATER, THAT SAYS A LOT ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE GAME