[Rumor] WoW will become free to play!

[xsciveral]

Source: World of Warcraft will become free to play

Tom Chilton, lead designer at Blizzard, explained in an interview at PC Gamer.com, that World of Warcraft will most likely become free in the near future. There are many reasons they might do this, considering the fact that almost every MMO is going free-to-play, so why wouldn’t WoW? Well, of course, that doesn’t mean that the game will go completely free, as in other cases, you might need to buy your mounts with real money and so forth. Nevertheless, this is indeed suprising news.

Tom explained PC Gamer that Blizzard will most likely adopt the free-to-play model, the general MMO trending and the competition. The most interesting part, if you ask me, is what will happen with the next MMO from Blizzard. It won’t be released soon, but if they go free, that means that their next MMO will go free and that surely means the beginning of a new era in MMO’s worldwide.

This would be so sweet if it will happen but, I highly doubt it

[Mitron]

nowai... wont happen until WoW drops in players drastically.... they earn too much money to make it free.

[Reflection]

Not a chance. That interview is rather old, as well. (iirc)

[xsciveral]

Not a chance. That interview is rather old, as well. (iirc)

Jul 1st isn't that old....

[soulchief]

If that happens, I will quit. I cannot stand F2P MMO's

[SM411]

Retail goes privat server? I better hope not!

[Reflection]

Jul 1st isn't that old....

I can see that but there was some interview about this very subject where the same thing came up.

[BonutDot]

One day someone at blizzard was like "I think we make too much money, let's stop!" and their customers were like yay!

Then the people actually in charge of the money beat those stupid bitches down.

[boomkinner]

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[Tastypie]

"Tom Chilton, lead designer at Blizzard, explained in an interview at PC Gamer.com, that World of Warcraft will most likely become free in the near future."


Will not happend.

[{CoReY}]

This thread- is full of fail. Blizzard is a multi-billion dollar company. They wouldn't give a free glass of water.

[HEYitsZEUS]

I highly doubt it. with the $$ they are pulling in right now, and the dedication of people doing it, that would be a stupid move on their part.

[Remus]

This thread- is full of fail. Blizzard is a multi-billion dollar company. They wouldn't give a free glass of water.

they gave me a free glass of water =/ , and yes it is possible just 2-3 years down the road. they have already plateaued on user accounts.(IE it's been ~11 million since tbc...

[R11tz0r]

Source: World of Warcraft will become free to play



This would be so sweet if it will happen but, I highly doubt it

I bet it's a Publicity Stunt, if not, when that happens wow will end a few months later.
Free MMO isn't a good thing, who will pay employees, workers etc? Money surely doesnt raindown on blizzard HQ, and charge for Mounts and other stuff won't do any good.
If it goes free things will start to fall apart shortly after, youll see.

It's not in a near future as they say.

When asked if Blizzard were actively considering the implications of a free-to-play model, Tom played down the idea of the game switching over right away. “We’re not spending a lot of time thinking about it. It’s not something that’s a reality for us in the near future.”

[kingsquid]

My god I will quit if they go f2p. There will be sOOOOOO many noobs that will be bugging. I would never pay for my mounts or shit....