WOW might be free to play soon.

[jimmyamd]

World of Warcraft may be going free-to-play | Games | Geek.com

what do you guys think about free to play?

[xcureanddisease]

World of Warcraft may be going free-to-play | Games | Geek.com

what do you guys think about free to play?

Not gonna go free to play anytime soon. They're raking in millions upon millions..


So lets do some simple math:

Last subscription count BEFORE WoD was around 7 million people. With WoD coming out its more..

But lets just SAY for some reason its only 5 million subs. So im being very generous when i lowered the number by 2 million.

So its 5,000,000 * 15 /per month = 75,000,000 per month

75,000,000 * 12(yearly income) = 900,000,000

Would you give up almost a billion dollars to go F2P? Only an idiot would. This is their cash cow. This isn't gonna go F2P for a VERY LONG time.

And buying gametime with gold DOES NOT = F2P. I bet they're gonna make the cost of a monthly service in gold absurd. Like the Alliance bike. Can anyone really afford to pay 100,000 gold each month? Hell is it even worth paying that? Id rather sell my 100k in dollars and just pay for my monthly sub and still keep some money.

Not to mention Chris Metzen already said in November, they're planning 10 more years of XPACS(roughly 4 or 5) before they call it quits.

[sed-]

Not gonna go free to play anytime soon. They're raking in millions upon millions..


So lets do some simple math:

Last subscription count BEFORE WoD was around 7 million people. With WoD coming out its more..

But lets just SAY for some reason its only 5 million subs. So im being very generous when i lowered the number by 2 million.

So its 5,000,000 * 15 /per month = 75,000,000 per month

75,000,000 * 12(yearly income) = 900,000,000

Would you give up almost a billion dollars to go F2P? Only an idiot would. This is their cash cow. This isn't gonna go F2P for a VERY LONG time.

And buying gametime with gold DOES NOT = F2P. I bet they're gonna make the cost of a monthly service in gold absurd. Like the Alliance bike. Can anyone really afford to pay 100,000 gold each month? Hell is it even worth paying that? Id rather sell my 100k in dollars and just pay for my monthly sub and still keep some money.

Not to mention Chris Metzen already said in November, they're planning 10 more years of XPACS(roughly 4 or 5) before they call it quits.

f2p mmos make more then p2p, fact .

[arenawarrior]

Fact? Show me

[jimmyamd]

cause of the micro transactions.

just like newer game apps for your phone, most are free but makes plenty of money from the micro transactions.

[Leonak]

f2p mmos make more then p2p, fact .

This is Not true. Im sure a Company as big as blizzard will have some clever people who would analyze whether it would be more profitable to make it F2P or P2P. Unless they've had some retard giving them false information, having it P2P is more profitable for them.

[HunterHero]

I know a lot of companies make a lot of cash of F2P games with micro transactions and premium stuff, but I would love to see a comparison of a F2P game, as popular as WoW in terms of subscribers vs. micro transaction payers. Blizzard are one of the biggest MMO and RPG companies that has existed in almost 24 years (come 8th of February). If F2P with micro transactions was more profitable, they would probably have went with that method quite a while ago.

[xcureanddisease]

f2p mmos make more then p2p, fact .

Show us. I would like figures of ANY F2P MMO making almost a Billion a year. Hell show me one making half a billion a year i'd be satisfied with seeing that.

[Natrist]

This shit has been in the client for months and has the same restrictions as trial accounts. WOW isn't going free to play any time soon. Sorry folks!

[Snowee]

f2p mmos make more then p2p, fact .

Not sure if trolling or not. There is a guess from Forbes on the Money which f2p games do make:


As you can see, WoW is 7th with microtransactions alone.
If WoW has 5Mio subs, they are making 1,1 billion each year.
If WoW has 10Mio subs, they are making 2 billions each year.


Ontopic: If somebody thinks WoW will go f2p in the next 2-3 years, than this person is a retard. A plain and simple retard.

[Miksu]

Nuff said. ^

[HunterHero]

Not sure if trolling or not. There is a guess from Forbes on the Money which f2p games do make:


As you can see, WoW is 7th with microtransactions alone.
If WoW has 5Mio subs, they are making 1,1 billion each year.
If WoW has 10Mio subs, they are making 2 billions each year.


Ontopic: If somebody thinks WoW will go f2p in the next 2-3 years, than this person is a retard. A plain and simple retard.

Which shows that their subscriptions earn them more than Crossfire and League does with their f2p micro transactions. So no reason to go over to it when they already partly got it along with their subscriptions. And the F2P games don't earn more than Blizzard does with P2P. Busted sed-.

[Nylina]

I bet they're gonna make the cost of a monthly service in gold absurd. Like the Alliance bike. Can anyone really afford to pay 100,000 gold each month? Hell is it even worth paying that? Id rather sell my 100k in dollars and just pay for my monthly sub and still keep some money.

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It's not going to be anywhere near that price.. They have already said its gonna be like the pet people bought then sold..

[dentodili]

It's not going to be anywhere near that price.. They have already said its gonna be like the pet people bought then sold..

xcureanddisease's post is exactly why i keep posting on blizz forums asking devs to ignore people that say that people will stop buying months with money and will only do with gold... Most people are just too dimwitted to realise how the token system works and that blizz will make more money OR EXACTLY THE SAME AMMOUNT(if not even 1 single person uses it ever), but not LESS... I wish more people would be economically litterate on how inflation/demand work as well :/

On the topic... Blizz are flexible, but there is no need to make a game like wow free to play when the opposite works so well

[LoveOne]

It's funny how no one is talking about the subject in this topic but argue how f2p is bad or good, wow is not going f2p, they are making a new type of account, veteran, the rest you can read in main post.