No game becomes "free" willingly, and those games aren't really free at all. They just switch where the revenue comes from. Instead of subs, they make everything you do in the game a micro-transaction, which quickly adds up.
If this one does, the DOOOM won't be far behind.
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Originally Posted by graystar_blaster
I just read that other mmos become free after a while when do you think this one will.
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This game MIGHT (and that's a big MIGHT) become F2P at some point, but I suspect that not only is that point still a few years away but when/if it does happen here that will likely be the beginning of the end of this game being a live game.
Basically it would not be a "good sign" for the future of this game under any circumstances.
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With all the folks leaving its got me wondering if thats what they are going to announce at some point.
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It will be "free"* as soon as they don't want my business anymore. $15 a month is a small price to keep all the rabble out.
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Originally Posted by EvilRyu
With all the folks leaving its got me wondering if thats what they are going to announce at some point.
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People change jobs. No DOOM necessary, and the game is not dying.
*"Free" games aren't. They use microtransactions to keep the game alive. I don't want to pay for powers, zones, Task/Strike forces, supergroups, levels, enhancements, inspirations...
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Who is leaving? I haven't seen a massive outflux of people, and most of the servers are yellow when I sign on.
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Originally Posted by EvilRyu
With all the folks leaving its got me wondering if thats what they are going to announce at some point.
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I'd assume that most of those MMO's that went from a monthly fee to free to play were in fairly severe trouble and desperate to attract players. I doubt that very many of them manage to survive for long after making that change.
The only game that I've played that went from subscription to free to play was Champions; and they nickel and dime you to death in their store for upgrades, zones and so forth. Yeah, you can play free, as long as you only want to use X powersets and have Y limitations. Frankly I haven't read all the changes since I let my sub there lapse some time ago.
I would take CoH going free to play as a very bad sign that we were entering the ICU and on life support. I'd expect updates to stop or at least severely slow down and the servers to shut down inside of a year. So based on this I have to say I hope we don't see that happen here.
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The game becomes free when support and updates become practically non-existent...
Id rather pay to play
So I hope never
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I interpreted this as regarding Paragon/NC employees. The post-GR layoffs that included BaB, Castle gone as of 2011, and most recently The Ocho.
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Who is leaving? I haven't seen a massive outflux of people, and most of the servers are yellow when I sign on.
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Gotta agree there Aett, ever since issue 18 hit I've seen the servers busier than they have been in years. Every night Guardian's yellow; something that only happened during double XP weekends and special events a few years ago.|
Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Who is leaving? I haven't seen a massive outflux of people, and most of the servers are yellow when I sign on.
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Yeah, we're maybe down a bit from the peak right after Going Rogue hit but we're still WELL above where we were this time last year... or the year before that... or even the year before that.
Now it's entirely possible that there aren't that many lowbies playing since many of us have been focusing on our 50's and the new Incarnate stuff... I haven't played a lowbie in weeks myself. I really need to think about working on my baby tanks; one's a 24 Dark/Elec and the others a 28 Ice/Elec. I rolled them up in early i18 because I was looking for something different and I hadn't played either of those sets before. With all of my 50's that I play through the incarnate arc and most at least with the basic alpha slotted maybe it's time.
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so people leaving is what's been keeping servers yellow every night during prime time?|
Originally Posted by EvilRyu
With all the folks leaving ....
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An interesting interpretation.
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
so people leaving is what's been keeping servers yellow every night during prime time?
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They're yellow because the new servers are less powerful and can handle less players than the old servers! The developers removed hardware to make it seem like we had more players than we actually have!
Which doesn't explain why the zones are much more stable during events. I'm not seeing as many LCMS's during Mothership Raids, Rikti Raids, Zombie Raids, or Hamidon Raids that I have in the past. Not to mention lag intensive missions like the third mish of the ITF are more responsive than they were before.
Perhaps it's because the developers added hardware and average subscriptions went up because of Going Rogue?
a. its evil ryu
b.after hiring a huge number of employees a while ago, they laid off 8, including a very popular one who i liked very much as well. castle and ocho both phrased their exits as having job opportunities that will be advantageous to them, this is a mass exodous that indicates the closure of the game.but doomers gotta doom, see point a.
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About the same time they start merging the servers...
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Originally Posted by graystar_blaster
I just read that other mmos become free after a while when do you think this one will.
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People are leaving? I just came back after a 2 year break.
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Originally Posted by EvilRyu
With all the folks leaving its got me wondering if thats what they are going to announce at some point.
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Probably around the time people on the internet all start using punctuation to separate phrases. If they start capitalizing acronyms, that would make it even more likely.
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Originally Posted by graystar_blaster
I just read that other mmos become free after a while when do you think this one will.
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Didn't we have this thread already last week?
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Originally Posted by UberGuy
Probably around the time people on the internet all start using punctuation to separate phrases. If they start capitalizing acronyms, that would make it even more likely.
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This thread inspired me to pay a visit to the forums of "some other" game that's going FTP.
Good times....definitely puts the dooooomcrying we've been getting around here in perspective. =P
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I know, right? All the servers showing medium or heavy load every night is OBVIOUSLY a sign that the game is dying.
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Originally Posted by EvilRyu
With all the folks leaving its got me wondering if thats what they are going to announce at some point.
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That depends - a good F2P model could be a boost for the game, if it needs it later on.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
Basically it would not be a "good sign" for the future of this game under any circumstances.
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I just read that other mmos become free after a while when do you think this one will.