Anyway, you go, girl. I guess LOTRO must be bringing in enough money for them to spend money and time testing out F2P on DDO…and to give DDO another chance before they pull the plug. It could also be helped by the recent round of funding they collected.

Honestly, from a business perspective, cool. Let’s see if F2P will save a game (along with the updates they’ve put together for the expansion that will bring the game into F2P mode)…Of course, from a game design/gamer perspective, just because it’s free doesn’t mean people will swarm. Still, they might actually see a bump in income as people opt to toss money away in microtrans and as some people who want to keep their WoW (or even Aion?) subscriptions running while trying another MMO.

But, with Guild Wars out there, is it worth it? Guild Wars is prettier and has a ton of content. GW2 is coming out some day and Aion’s about to launch. Oh, and we can’t forget Cataclysm’s going to pop it’s head out there sometime soon (I can’t imagine Activision Blizzard won’t want to take advantage of the coming holiday season to release that baby…especially if they’re already demoing it at PAX in September.

Again, we’ll see but I’m not holding my breath. Might be worth it to consider new MMO IP…maybe in a non-Fantasy genre?? Hmm?? Hey, Turbine, if you’re interested in licensing a new IP, call my people…

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The big question is will it make them any more money? Sure people will be more likely to sign up to try and play the game if they haven’t already but is it going to be worth the effort and time if you’re getting chainmail while the guy next to you throws down some bills and gets plate +2?

They’re going to be using a sort of in-game currency so we’ll have to see. If they make it possible for you to earn enough money to unlock the stuff that the rich guy next to you (in-game since that rich guy obviously doesn’t live near you) bought six months ago, then MAYBE they’ll have something.

I guess my problem with it is they’re ignoring the main issue. People aren’t playing the game because of the price. People aren’t playing the game because there are other games they’d rather play.

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