'If' the game goes F2P, What happens?

aaaaand no. Guild Wars 2 actually has a massive focus on PvE and PvP. PvP has a World vs World Map where 3 servers battle each other for 2 weeks straight on a map that has all kind of objectives to reach through offensive or defensive.

As for the PvE, the world is dynamic and changes based on the players actions through the branching dynamic event system.

Seriously read up about Guild Wars 2 PvE, and you will learn that it has a massive focus on PvE. For people wanting something to be finally innovative in PvE for MMOs, Guild Wars has it.

F2P Nowadays is not a sign of fail, but a different model.

However, it's a win for the game management, a loss for the players. F2P generally rely on a cash shop, putting out cosmetic items - fluff - which many players are more than willing to shell out for. You end up with a small number of players paying up to $50-$75 / month, most paying nothing, and an in between number about $10/ month. These are not hard numbers - these are meant to illustrate how it generally works out.

Pure freebers will probably have a max of 2 character slots across all servers, cannot send items between their alts by mail, max 10 spots on the AH, can hold a max of 5000 credits. If they are particularly morally challenged - like the makers of the newest of the superhero mmo's out there - any credits you make above 5000 are held hostage and you have to pay $ to get access to small amounts of them at a time.

On top of that let's say they keep subscriptions as an option. Those who subscribe will most likely have to pay just as much as the freebers for store items - let's say rainbow crystals, 120% mounts speeders that look better than anything out there, server transfers, etc. So on top of $15 for access to most baseline stuff, they still have to pay extra for servr transfers or the shiny 120% speed mount.

Finally - instead of seeing more flashpoints and aggressive quality development, focus will shift towards the things that generate money (cash shop items) with quarterly release of say - one flashpoint.

At the end of the day the only people that win are: transient players without any long term commitment to the game, who come and go on a monthly basis and the game developer. What suffers are the more invested players and quality and quantity of content.

F2P is not really a sign of failure for a company, it can be as profitable if not more - but as a player I wouldn't want it. $15/month for hours of entertainment are a heck of a deal as far as I'm concerned. A single night out generally costs me many times that amount.

Game is 2 months old. Most successful MMO launch Ever! This puppy is going to be P2P for a long, long time.

Not been at a release before so I cant really compare to other games, just the sub losses (I believe there's a few anyway) are a bit un-nerving

Buy into the propaganda more please.

Over hyped game has highest week one sales in a genre that's been dominated by one game that was released almost a decade ago? HUGE *********** SURPRISE! This must mean the game is good.

For proof of this, go look up how many completely terrible games have sold 2 million copies.

I'm just curious: how will Guild Wars 2 do it without subscriptions?

The same way GW1 did it?

If the game goes F2P, I'm going to unsub. I'LL DO IT, MAN

Believe EA said this game only needs 500k subs to be profitable so.. doubt its going to dip below that anytime soon.

Well in my opinion... EA would shut it down instead of letting the game go F2P.