Do people prefer F2P MMOs?

DDO isnt' really traditional F2P its A La Carte or Subscription with a buff, cosmetic shop. The gear in game far better than whats on the shop so your right you can't Pay 2 Win thankfully.

yeah, same with lotro. Turbine is probably the only company out there that does f2p 'the right way' (though of course lots of subscriber/lifetime accounter still have legitimate reasons to complain)

too bad most people don't even know why these two games went f2p and put them into the same 'oh the game is crap because it's gone f2p' box.

(ps: maturaty wise, lotro beats tor hands down, f2p or not, but I doubt it has much to do with the pay model and much more with the number of players. wow afterall is known for having a really bad community as a whole ;D)

yeah, same with lotro. Turbine is probably the only company out there that does f2p 'the right way' (though of course lots of subscriber/lifetime accounter still have legitimate reasons to complain)

too bad most people don't even know why these two games went f2p and put them into the same 'oh the game is crap because it's gone f2p' box.

(ps: maturaty wise, lotro beats tor hands down, f2p or not, but I doubt it has much to do with the pay model and much more with the number of players. wow afterall is known for having a really bad community as a whole ;D)

yeah, same with lotro. Turbine is probably the only company out there that does f2p 'the right way' (though of course lots of subscriber/lifetime accounter still have legitimate reasons to complain)

too bad most people don't even know why these two games went f2p and put them into the same 'oh the game is crap because it's gone f2p' box.

(ps: maturaty wise, lotro beats tor hands down, f2p or not, but I doubt it has much to do with the pay model and much more with the number of players. wow afterall is known for having a really bad community as a whole ;D)

Honest question here, are free to play MMOs actually what people want? For me the cost of a monthly subscription is so negligible it really doesn't affect my choice on a game. Nothing would keep me away from a game more than (Pay to win).

Umm... both games went F2P because they weren't generating revenues any more. It was their only option to remain profitable. Once a game drops below about 100K paying subs, it then can make more revenues for awhile by going F2P simply because it will suddenly have 2 million people each paying, on average, about $1.50 a month. (For every person who pays something, 5 will pay nothing at all.)

It's not a model a dev employs by preference and the way you know this is true is that you NEVER see a triple A game designed as F2P.

Guild Wars 1 was free to play.

Guild Wars 2 will be free to play.

The only mmo i've seen doing f2p right is DDO