This missed opportunity really blows my mind. Really, what other companies come out with a retail release game with a one-time cost, but allow the online interactions to be free-to-play? No one but them. Insane.
Although a few Free to play games use all real money. You can earn it in game as well. Which is a different model, but one I support.
What GW's has is the most consumer friendly way to ever get into a MMO game.
100 % Free to play with microtransactions just guarantees that there is an audience. Not necessarily a group of people with a passion to keep playing the game.
they should have done this from the start, Buy the game then play for free, use micro trans for vanity crap, then all major updates into mini expansions for sale, and just do the balancing of game for free/bugs ect
Lol it's funny how high the development budget was for this yet most of the money went on voice acting. Some idiots at EA/BW actually thought the recipe for success was to create a fully voiced over watered down version of WoW in space with the star wars license. Instead what we get is an mmo with a semi decent story with LOTS of tedious conversions and no soul.
Been saying that for years before the game came out. If it was that obvious to me, how is it that NO ONE at BioWare had the foresight to see how the game would turn out?
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Although a few Free to play games use all real money. You can earn it in game as well. Which is a different model, but one I support.
What GW's has is the most consumer friendly way to ever get into a MMO game.
100 % Free to play with microtransactions just guarantees that there is an audience. Not necessarily a group of people with a passion to keep playing the game.