Do people prefer F2P MMOs?

If I wanted F2P I wouldn't be here!

Do you consider Buy to Play MMO the same as Free to Play MMO? Reason I am asking is because Guild Wars 2 will have no sub, and it is definetly a Triple A game.

Also, LOTRO was still being profitable for Turbine, it didn't need to be Free to play to save the game. DDO did, but not LOTRO. But when Warner Brothers bought Turbine, they saw what the FTP model did for DDO and knew they could get even more profit with LOTRO.

I most certainly do not. In fact I tend to avoid such MMOs.

Guild Wars wasn't an MMO, wasn't created as an MMO, and wasn't advertised as an MMO by the developers/publisher so yeah of course it was a terrible MMO

Free to play isn't "free" nothing is "free" you should know that by now. No monthly sub yes, but as soon as you WANT to do something with guildies and you need something and it costs 2.99 from a store, it's an INSTANT turn off.

I would much rather have EVERYTHING in the game and pay that 15 dollars a month for it and always have the whole game right there. It's just better that way. Plus 15 dollars a month is NOTHING. Think about it. 50 cents a day? lol

No, in fact i would pay $30 a month for a fun game that wasn't just another cookie-cutter MMO.

I've had very good experiences with free to play games in the past, but never long term. I haven't ever liked one enough to buy into their "premium packages" (ie where you un-f2p the game), but I've always eventually gotten frustrated by the amount and frequency of micro-transactions and restrictions they impose.

P2P are always far better in quality and content and the ones that go hybrid tend to do so when they know they can make far more moolah that way and go total f2p cash shop only when they are sunk.

F2P is a gimmick that abuses stupidity. In many cases, you end up paying more if you want to stay competitive in any sense. If you just want to mess about and not do anything worth doing in a game then yeah, sure, it's great. If, however, you're like me who likes to make lots of alts and collect stuff, you either shell out a lot of money or simply avoid F2P games.

I can only speak for myself but as a casual player I despise F2P games. There is almost no upside to spending the money to compete or be a viable addition to end-game content - it always ends up costing far more than the few hundred bucks a year it costs to play games like WoW or tor.

Most of us truly casual players always come across chunks of time where we can ramp up our playtime. In WoW for instance I would sometimes have enough time in a week to max out my vp or jp(maybe every few weeks). Rarely more I could do it 2-3 weeks in a row.

I then have a chance to participate in the higher end content since I was able to slowly build up my ilevel.

In a F2P game if I do that I am still unable to participate and then I either I have to drop rl cash into something I might only get to use once every few months or I have to pay for content I MIGHT get to participate in if I managed to get/pay for the right eq etc.

The only viable F2P games imo are LOTRO and, funny enough, a game like TOR. The reason is the storyline content. Tor is lightyears ahead of LOTRO in story content but I love middle-earth and enjoyed playing the quests.

I would play TOR if it were F2P just for the quests and then move on once I got to end-game content which would not be worth my money(not because of issues but because I will never pay f2p prices for end-game content)