One of the biggest dangers for a developer of a payable MMORPG is that only few gamers will give a game a second chance. For many the 30 free days are enough to know whether they'll spend months or even years online, or ditch it in the dustbin after the trial period is over. Aion: The Tower of Eternity is the latest "big" MMORPG to have been released but whether it fulfills all its promises is something that deserves further investigation!
An overview of how to get started with leveling, making a proper build and earning Kinah in the MMORPG, Aion Online.
Aion brings a plethora of innovative features to the MMORPG table including flight combat, in-depth character creation and customization, and some of the most intense PvP you'll ever experience in an online world.
Let’s face it, Blizzard has no reason to charge us all 10 dollars a month, every other game franchise makes its money on Expansions/Map Packs/DLC/A Game a Year (EA Sports etc), why can’t WoW be like that too? You tell me...
It's a modification that will make its proof yes.
When you see Guild wars 2 adopting the free to play you know that it can be a solution.
Now talking about the future, nothing is meant to last forever, so it can be part of the future but not something that will last forever.
Good F2P MMOs are the future, generic MMO will just die. I can't see mmos thats not bringing something new to the table or mmos thats not made by well-known companies lasting long.
Some to most P2P MMOs will last only if they are constantly putting out content. If some of the P2P mmos isn't doing anything to compete against the f2p mmos then they will end up dying or converting to f2p.
As long as they aren't all f2p, but P2W (Pay to Win)<.< Hate that about the majority of f2p games, and they are so many of them now...
Just as long as it's not Pay 2 Win then I'm cool with it.
It'll be much better in the long run for gamers because now we can try out more MMOs compared to maybe a few.
There should be an option to try out items before you buy them and ones that you don't want to buy you can level up and earn them that way too.
If there were more expansion packs then that would more then cover the cost of the servers and bring more money to the developer at the same time.
It's a win-win situation.
Here's me hoping SWTOR goes Free 2 Play.
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