It seems like this is blizzards last effort to get the subscriptions back up before it goes free to play, what do you guys think?
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It seems like this is blizzards last effort to get the subscriptions back up before it goes free to play, what do you guys think?
Where the hell did you get the idea that their going F2P? I really doubt it! I actually like the new idea of this expansion so i will come back :)
Subscription numbers are at an all-time low, its common sense that they will go free-to-play at some point when subscription numbers get to a low enough number in an effort to get people interested again
The numbers may be low for WoW, but it is still incredibly high in comparison to every other MMO on the market. This isn't even to mention that they made more money this year than they did this time last year. The game isn't designed to be f2p, and likely never will be.
Please calculate 5.6 Million X 15$ Monthly .... Tell me if that revenue is low.
Blizzard doesn't just make money from subscriptions alone.
nor WoW alone ;) I think their marketplace has expanded alot for WoW aswell.
Free to play has been sort of speculative so I don't think we can say for sure that one it will go F2P. In terms of the actual expansion, the overview for it looks pretty cool, might renew to check out the new continent :D
I'm not a huge fan of the new expansion for various reasons. (Also hi, I'm new!)
I've always considered the Night Elves my favorite race(And I can hear you asking why I don't like Legion then since it seems pretty NElf-centric), but there's a fair few reasons. I don't go too in-depth because I don't like starting arguments.
Also it does seem like a pretty blatant attempt to ride the TBC-nostalgia train for as long as they can milk it.
No, leave them be. People are excited, threads are going to be made. No point in merging them and confusing the different discussions going on in each.
I think it will fail just like WoD...
And next expansion after legion wow will prolly go f2p...
Well i think we should actually wait to see how the expansion works out before thinking it's gonna ''fail'' altho WOD has destroyed a lot of the trust and rep of Blizzard. Not sure where everyone is getting the idea that WOW is going F2P but i think that will never happen since it's pretty much their buisness model and income for the game (even tho they have loads of money otherwise from other games)
Lol blizzard and activision is the same company. It's called Activision Blizzard inc.
Anyways they have like 70 million players accross all their online games. That's quiet a lot so losing some subscribers on WoW doesn't mean the end of the game.