when will game be free?

I'm not sure why people are saying that with some of the Devs and forum mods leaving that this game is dying. Sure people have left in the past most notably Jack Emmert aka statesman, Cuppa Jo, ExLibris and many many others. Sure there have been layoffs before. But this game is still going and going strong and many many players are coming back due to free fitness pool and the Incarnate system.

Back to the point of people (NC Soft staff) and why. First is we for the most part won't know the real reason for a popular person leaving unless they go someplace else and let us know why they left here. Secondly and more important, people leave jobs that they love everyday for many reasons: health, better pay, advance their skill set, location, medical and on and on.

Don't for one minute think that this game or any game is heading downhill just because a few people leave a job in close proximity to each other. Wait until there is an official Doom announcement then cry wolf.

Rich the Wolf Guy

I think the original poster is a good example of a console gamer not being informed on just how expensive their console games are. I used to play console games regularly and didn't want to pay a subscription fee either. I tried CoH on a free trial and heard on chat channels about the previous content updates and some speculation about the upcoming Going Rogue. I actually think NCSoft should be blowing their own horn a lot more about this games constantly evolving content. When console gamers understand their 15$ is really buying tons of games and new ones are added all the time they're much more likely to subscribe. I know I was, and it was player chatter that sold me on it. Maybe the marketing department could really trumpet that accomplishment. Comparing the 50$ for every new thing or 15$ a month for constantly new and fun stuff to do is easy math for anyone.
In order to better fit this post in with general forum content DOOOOOMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Begins Google search on designer tinfoil hats*

There's a reason this game seems to be relatively slow to attract players (due to being ancient by MMO standards) but is really good at retaining them, the constant flow of new content keeps people hanging out for the next carrot.

I can see some advantages to F2P for CoH, but the timing needs to be right.

The content being added right now doesn't seem like something that would mesh well with F2P. I think it will be at least two years, and only then if CoH takes a big hit in population numbers and can't recover.

All the newest TFs and other content all feel like something which encourages paid subscriptions, rather than micropayments. I saw Champions Online add stuff to their store for quite a while (nearly a year) before they went F2P. I assume any MMO game would be similar.

Free to play MMo's suck for one reason. All the idiots that play them. I will gladly put up my $15 to continue to play this game to keep out the serious A** Hats that a free game like Guild wars has ( though it's a neat game, i stopped playing it because of the A** hats)

If City of Heroes ever becomes free.. I will pack up all my costumes, dismiss my alts, and initiate the self destruct sequence on my base as i am flying out of Paragon.