'If' the game goes F2P, What happens?

I always thought that TF2 wasn't that heavily focused on microtransactions before going F2P... but i guess I was wrong... oh well, it happens.

In addition, F2P games that were once subscription games have once again been revitalized because it brings more attention to them. Games that people probably wouldn't have paid for (hard copy and subscription) now have more users because they're now free to play. Games like LoTRO, DCUO, and Lineage have upped their playerbase many times over, and also, people are more willing to pay a dollar or two at a time for usually cosmetic items, and that stacks up.

Guild Wars 2 ftw, where free really is free.

Yeah. A F2P WoW clone with TERRIBAD voice acting. Have you seen the beta videos? It's very very lulzy.



This game won't go F2P for years, if ever.

My memory might be off, but the hat thing was limited until they started giving the game away. But this is a different beast, because TF2 isn't an MMO & never carried a subscription fee for online pay.



True, but the tricky thing there is that some of these companies are small & privately held. They don't release quarterly revenue statements.

In other words, Turbine can claim LOTR's revenues increased 300% when they went F2P, but that's a meaningless number when we don't know how much money they were making (or losing!) before that. (Nevermind that LOTR still carries premium subscriptions).

Lineage 2 went F2P after eight years of live release in Korea. That again seems very different than taking about TOR going this route after two months of limited release.

It won't happen for awhile. They have a pipeline of content they will release and try to string subs out. I expect more micro-transactions as well. If the assets handling isn't fixed soon... look for D3 and GW2 to put the proverbial "nail in the coffin."

I have seen them, many of them, I don't think you have though. The voice acting is nearly the same in SWTOR. Which by the way, SWTOR is far far closer to being a WoW clone then Guild Wars 2 is, unless of course Blizzard made their whole world a dynamic world that changes based on the players actions, not to mention the combat system of the game, and and a whole lot of other things that are innovative for the MMO genre.

diablo 3...yeah that will put a dent

GW 2 ...it will dent numbers....for one month, people will come back in droves after they realise its a lot of pretty fluff covering the same , limited and shallow interface and combat system of the first game , where you basically press 2 or 3 abilties regardless of what you are doing , and with the removal of the holy trinity , it will be a royal spamfest wich may as well be a fps

the combat system is the most shallow, uninteresting pos ive ever wasted my time playing

sorry but its a lot of pretty fluff covering what is basicaly teh same combat system from the first one, wich utterly SUCKED

also LOL at the videos with stupid looking ratchet&clank looking races , im sorry but it looks just like the first one, yes awsome graphics , but it was basicaly as interesting as playing a fps