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I just want to ask you guys that, what if WOW didn't had a monthly payment from the players to play? Would that be good? Would that be bad? Share your opinions here
It would be awesome. Blizzard wouldn't make any money with WoW, and forget that ***** game,
and make WC IV!!!!!!
Ya, except for, if it was free, they would probably focus on Diablo or Starcraft or start something new instead of continueing warcraft. It would bring in much more money.It would be awesome. Blizzard wouldn't make any money with WoW, and forget that ***** game,
and make WC IV!!!!!!
Guild Wars survived pretty well with constant updates and hotfixes without a monthly fee. It survived on expansion packs and to a lesser extend on a shop which sold stuff like character slots, weapon packs (balanced weapons with the same stats as every other weapon), skill packs (unlocked all skills for your PvP characters) and stuff like that. It wasn't anything overpowered and not anything you couldn't achieve by playing normally.WoW can not exist without a montly fee. It would have to source revenue from ingame assets (what they do now is hardly that) which would render it pointless to play unless you are willing to pay. Most of us know how free games try and make the paying people rigged.
On top of that it would receive no maintence and as such it would quickly fall to the dogs.
WoW only works because it demands a monthly fee. Everyone in WoW is pretty equal, yes people may have insane mounts and crap but they certainly will not have a person OHKOing you cause he paid 300$ for cheat codes. As everyone pays, there is no reason to greatly reward people willing to pay more.
WoW will eventually become free (blizzard atleast has hinted). As it enters retirement and the servers become deserted, they may change it so you can play for free and rely on the usual bonus content to keep their servers up and running (as they will no longer look for profit from it).
...And how does that back up your argument?Guildwars was never nowhere as big as WoW.
adding buyable content into the game like mounts, vanity stuff, etc.