Blizzard 🍯 may have to make the game free to play

[Suniza-turalyon (Suniza)]

This guy and his trolls threads. This is like the second one today, but hey it’s sunday. Live it up buddy.

[Fixxix-korialstrasz (Fixxix)]

@Akston-bloodhoof

It would be a giant red flag that Blizzard is giving up on WoW and I would immediately quit and play something else.

It could mean a lot of players have givin up and are playing something else.

If they made a better product I would even pay more. As of now the product isn’t worth it to me.

[Tirionsbro-dalaran]

[quote=“Bonifacius-stormrage, post:9, topic:151318, full:true”]
Free to play would attract the younger generation who are used to free to play apps on their phones
[/quote] Lmao. The younger generation are playing on their PS4’s, and Xbox ones nowadays.

[Blästoff-dalaran (Blästoff)]

it is free 2 play if you use wow tokens. they’re pretty easy to get in a month.

[Cairnage-greymane (Cairnage)]

I bet the EQ model would work. Their player base has been increasing since it changed in 2015.

Live players pay for expansions - just like now in WoW. You can sub and get perks.
If you want access to the “good” server (TLP or in WoW terms, Classic Servers), you pay a sub fee. From what I understand, EQ gets more income from people paying to play on TLPs than they do on live.

[Stormhammer-gurubashi]

I can definitely see this happening. All the games with massive amounts of players and crazy revenue streams are free to play. Fortnite made 2.4 billion in revenue last year, far surpassing everything else. Then Apex came along and immediately snagged 10 million users.

[Juniorpio-skullcrusher]

How about they just focus on making it FUN to play.

[Mcbraidsley-dalaran (Mcbraidsley)]

@Bonifacius-stormrage

Blizzard needs to hire me

This would be a massive red flag and I would quite and play something else

[Muiria-khadgar (Muiria)]

already playing free for sometime now and forseeable future.

[Locgar-the-scryers (Locgar)]

there are very few new people playing wow as it is.most people are returning players that play/

kids dont play wow they play fortnight now.f2p wouldnt make a difference

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

@Sougen-illidan

i am not saying i agree with the OP, but that’s also just your opinion.

i am against people who try to shut down discussion of any relevant topic in a, well, general discussion forums

I guess I should have been more informative on why this did not need a thread.

OP created 3 threads at nearly the same time. All with extremely outlandish statements. “I am concerned that WoW is dying because not enough people are making ‘I am quitting WoW’ threads, its time for WoW to go F2P”, was another one made at the same time.

So its not that I am trying to shut down the topic. I was against using multiple threads created by the same person to discuss the same topic. So, I am sorry for not clarifying properly initially.

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

@Cairnage-greymane

I bet the EQ model would work. Their player base has been increasing since it changed in 2015.

Live players pay for expansions - just like now in WoW. You can sub and get perks.
If you want access to the “good” server (TLP or in WoW terms, Classic Servers), you pay a sub fee. From what I understand, EQ gets more income from people paying to play on TLPs than they do on live.

Lost me at calling the TLPs the “good” server.

EverQuest TLP servers have been such a joke whenever I play them. I had to move on.

[Windizu-proudmoore]

F2P for WoW would be a nightmare, because what do you restrict for F2P players without compromising the experience we know?

A lot of things we take for granted in WoW (Like bag and character slots) are generally paid for extra’s in other F2P MMO’s, and restricting those would put a damper on a lot of people’s gameplay experiences.

WoW’s been sub based since its inception, if they wanted it to be F2P they should hve done it long ago, now their in too deep to do that without pissing everyone off.

[Censered-undermine]

When I look at the store in this game compared games like gw2 I would be worried about seeing this game to go free to play.

Level boost is 3 times as much here and the cheapest items are pets for $10 each. They may follow suit but $350 statues leads me to wonder if they may try to get away with consumable hearthstones, monthly mount licenses and removing all mount and pet drops to put them in the store.