Blizzard lead designer says subscription fee for massively successful MMORPG might not make sense after studio's second online game launches.
according to WOW lead designer Tom Chilton. As part of an interview with PC Gamer magazine, the veteran game designer noted that having players pay for a $15 monthly pass might not always be the best option in terms of monetizing WOW. However, Chilton also said that the trend toward the free-to-play model isn't necessarily a reaction to WOW.
"I feel like they're doing that to compete with other games that are on a similar subscriber level to what they were at," he said. "I imagine that when one of them went free to play it cannibalized some of the other subscribers. I can definitely imagine that being the case with World of Warcraft. If another game comes along and blows us away it may not make sense for us to have a subscription fee. Or even further down the line, when we have another MMO out."
Originally posted by Hyp47 maybe it has been a hoax all this time, maybe WoW never had 10+ m subs and most of the servers were full with bots lol
if this company didn't have to report publically their sub number's like another title (ahem cough) i'd believe that but alas no. tho they prolly are filled with some community of gold farmers no less tho the numbers are unclear.
The reason for this post is that some posters suggested wow should be completely free to play. I was thinking about that and shock my head where do they come up with a crazy insane out of this world idea that blizzz make it so there are no subs? I'd like to smoke whatever they are smoking.
Originally posted by TruthXHurts Originally posted by Hyp47maybe it has been a hoax all this time, maybe WoW never had 10+ m subs and most of the servers were full with bots lol
Originally posted by Ausare Could see when titan come out a blizzard pass like soe to both games.
There is no proof Titan will be subscription based. But yeah, if it is, they will probably do both for like $22.
I am still expecting Titan to be a CoD type game, first person shooter, so probably not much cross-over appeal to WOW, but we will see. Titan began when WOW was still growing incredibly.. I can´t believe at that point they were planning on making something that would compete with WOW.
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Do you have a official link? not a 3erd party link but a official link or it is just a rumor.
only relevant info i saw was an old article from 2 years ago
http://www.gamespot.com/news/free-to-play-world-of-warcraft-a-possibility-6267563
June 30, 2010 3:52PM PDT
Blizzard lead designer says subscription fee for massively successful MMORPG might not make sense after studio's second online game launches.
according to WOW lead designer Tom Chilton. As part of an interview with PC Gamer magazine, the veteran game designer noted that having players pay for a $15 monthly pass might not always be the best option in terms of monetizing WOW. However, Chilton also said that the trend toward the free-to-play model isn't necessarily a reaction to WOW.
"I feel like they're doing that to compete with other games that are on a similar subscriber level to what they were at," he said. "I imagine that when one of them went free to play it cannibalized some of the other subscribers. I can definitely imagine that being the case with World of Warcraft. If another game comes along and blows us away it may not make sense for us to have a subscription fee. Or even further down the line, when we have another MMO out."
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yes please. would love to know if this is true.
if this company didn't have to report publically their sub number's like another title (ahem cough) i'd believe that but alas no. tho they prolly are filled with some community of gold farmers no less tho the numbers are unclear.
Link to post stating this?
Not true... no worries
If you make 100millions a month would you give that up for free?
Hell no. It's definitely not going F2P.
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8 Million Goldfarmer Bots can't be wrong...
"I am not in a server with Gankers...THEY ARE IN A SERVER WITH ME!!!"
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There is no proof Titan will be subscription based. But yeah, if it is, they will probably do both for like $22.
I am still expecting Titan to be a CoD type game, first person shooter, so probably not much cross-over appeal to WOW, but we will see. Titan began when WOW was still growing incredibly.. I can´t believe at that point they were planning on making something that would compete with WOW.
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