I don't see the big deal about GW2. To me, the game looks like crap compared to Tera.

Quote: morningfrost on 2012-03-06 21:01:14 UTC - view

RIFT isn't "Free to Play" until level 20. It's the Free Trial period that most other MMO's have - WoW has had it for years, Aion had it before they went F2P, etc. It's a marketing move to get more subscriptions and it tends to work fairly well.

Rift did go semi free to play, Rift lite allows players to play to 20.

Allows them to play indefinitely but only to 20....

B/F2P requires a cash shop to keep the game online, updates, maintenance, etc. Which means they NEED to have good stuff in the shop or no one will buy anything and the shop is pointless.

P2P means you get everything for $13-15.
That is so damn cheap for an entire months worth of playtime and allowing me access to everything the game has to offer.

Cash shops make it so less people pay more for more people to play....

You should all read up on some stories of people losing themselves to the cash shop to be cool.... thousands of dollars in a short time.

To much "nay-saying" going on here. I honestly think the game will stay P2P for a while. Just because a game has a "trial" period does not mean it has gone F2P.

@Gezodiac

Yeah, a buddy of mine got sucked in to the cash shop in one game. I would estimate he spent somewhere in the vicinity of $500p/mo.

Many games are going free to play either because they suck, or they used to be good but got old and now suck.

None of the new mmo's that don't suck go f2p or eventhink about it.
Wow Cata xpac, Rift, SWTOR, Tera are all the top titles to release in the last year and none of them are going f2p, or thinking about it.

GW2 is a bit of a red herring. People claim it's good, and their marketing strategy has convinced a giant amount of fanbois that this is true. Gratz to them. However, in spite of this, they know that it's a failed game model that no one in their right mind would ever sub to. Thus they're trying to get a giant initial amount of cash from one time purchases, and then being free.

Other companies are not going to follow this model, why should they lose all the sub money? Not one good mmo that released last year has done this. The fact that GW2 follows the model of all the old and/or crappy games should tell people something.

Quote: Venithrax on 2012-03-06 21:04:01 UTC - view

I was excited about GW2 for a while but my excitement is waning lately the more I read and watch about GW2 (and the more I play Tera lol). I will probably buy the game and try it out since it does seem to have some cool stuff, and after I buy it there's no monthly fee anyway so doesn't cost me much. Not to mention a lot of people I know are going to try it out also. I think it will be a fun side game and it definitely seems to cater to the casual crowd, especially with their PvP system. But Tera is definitely going to be my main game.

Honestly though, if GW2 had a monthly sub it wouldn't be worth it in the current market for a lot of people. It's got some cool stuff like the PvP system and the classes but with the other options people have I don't think they'd pay $15 a month for it. Tera is coming out and is amazing, then you have games like Aion which are going free, and RIFT and SWTOR have the attention of a lot of the people that are tired of WoW but want the same gameplay. GW2 has a very specific appeal and it's lack of a monthly fee is a large part of why it will be successful.

Quote: Venithrax on 2012-03-06 21:04:01 UTC - view

Same :/ popularity is never an accurate indicator though. Of it were, Justin Bieber would be a musical prodagy and Twilight the love story of the century.

Quote: morningfrost on 2012-03-06 21:01:14 UTC

Sorry, shoudnt have jumped to conclusions. This topic has just been used in the past to troll.