This hit my eye today..I doubt I can resist the urge to start playing again whenever they go free to play..
Blizzard is musing over a free-to-play business model for massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft.
Speaking to PC Gamer, World of Warcraft lead designer Tom Chilton, admitted that, “at some point, it may not make sense for us to have a subscription fee.”
However, he quickly clarified that: “We’re not spending a lot of time thinking about it. It’s not something that’s a reality for us in the near future.”
I suppose that when WoW has enough micro-transactions going on and a true WoW-killing mmo comes along, it would be a wise step of Blizzard to make Warcraft free to play. Or, who knows, they might go f2p close after releasing their next mmo.
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