^ this. Couldn’t have said it any better.
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yea level to 20, then pay 50 bucks for the game, give us your credit card for a subscription, we swear its awesome. Real great experience. They could make just as much money on an active wow with 5-10x the population off transfers, player housing, some mounts etc, and we would have 10x the community.
It’s about the long game with wow, we all know this is one of the best games ever made, let more people see that, you will make 10x the money
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Go play SWTOR if you want to see the absolute hell that is a free to play MMO.
No.
Absolutely not.
At $15 a month it’s practically free to play as it is.
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Damn shame too that one had a lot of potential. Now it takes years for their devs to even progress the story.
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so you think wow is in a great spot community wise? You wanna just chill and watch it widdle down to 0, legit 0 new blood.
It couldn’t be any worse than the spot F2P Mmo’s are in.
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I have played a few MMOs that embraced free to play and gave up their subs, and they all went to pot. Updates started becoming less about content, and more about changing things around to find ways to charge you. Or about straight up just adding things to the store to charge you.
One of the reasons I am playing WoW still is specifically because it is a sub game, and I have to deal with far less of that nonsense.
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You realize sub count has been on the rise since df right?
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Again, new players are coming in all the time, and there are servers with massive populations. I should know; I’m on one. We get massive amounts of server lag because of the community.
Going free-to-play will not make the game better. At all.
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Maybe due to classic subs went up. Retail is on a death spiral, yall blind
Again, no.
Just no.
You really don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.
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Retails doing better than classic right now what’re you on about?
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Ok, nvm… you guys are right… the game is super active, my bad
Ahh yup, nothing like trying to do a new event on Moon Guard. Really brings back those memories of power point presentations. 
Or heck, going to Stormwind can be an experience at times too.
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Tournament of Ages, every single year.
Even when the game isn’t a slideshow for frame rates because of how many people are there, the lag delay due to how much information the server is processing is insane.
Hell, even right now Stormwind is laggy due to the in-game Love is in the Air event, and there’s also Conquest RP events that draw big crowds.
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Troll
/Troll
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Can I see your citation for this dire lack of new players?
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oh look another classic andy.
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no it’s true, these forums are as active as i’ve ever seen them, I remember back in 2007, this is way more players
Game is thriving clearly
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You’re insane.