Microtransactions will be in every EA game

you can't say that because you have no idea.

I get to pick and choose what I want to purchase. Its casual friendly, because I can play whenever and not have to maintain a subscription.

Moreover, it speeds development. Look at City of Heroes, and the vast amount of powersets, costumes, etc which come much faster with micro transactions than subscription, and the cost ends up being roughly similar.

Yeah, since this isnt an asian P2Win mmo, highly doubtful. But you enjoy that tinfoil hat...

exactly i can't think of a single western MMO that has Pay 2 win where you can buy armor.

SWG had MT while still being a Sub game. The TCG made SOE tons of money during its initial years. A game CAN have MTs while still maintaining a Sub.

Depends how you define pay to win i suppose, does it have to be weapons and armour, if you can buy something to make you level faster or increase currency gathering i would class that as pay 2 win, also STO sells ships and items that really are pay to win.

I would say Pay 2 Win would either be being able to buy armor/ weapons or items that can give you an edge.

DDO and LotrO for example sell quests, classes, races, and vanity items. Also all those items can be purchesed with an in game currancy that can be earned.

Warhammer Wrath of Heroes has a heroes that can be either rented with gold, bought with gold or bought with cash.

These are examples of Free to Play and NOT Pay to Win.

Same advice to you.

The information you've given above is also completely incorrect with one exception--that being the difficulty of converting SWG to F2P would have been.


On-topic for the thread:
The article is talking about games in general. That includes not just MMOs but the single-player games as well.
This model already exists to an extent--even within EA. The Sims 3 has a tremendously successful content store. Not that I like that kind of model, but there are ways to balance things. For myself? I dislike microtransactions. But if you look at it from a business sense, it's the way the market has been headed for the past several years.

I would call it anything that gives you an edge over others that you can purchase for real money. I dont care if its in a free to play game or subscription based game.

Title of the thread should be;
"Microtransactions will be in every game"