Interesting....

http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/10/technology/star-wars-free-play/index.html?iid=Lead

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Almost every major publisher has now given in and eliminated its monthly fees -- the genre's bread-and-butter business model for the past 15 years -- relying instead on sales of premium content or virtual items to make money.

I've actually suggested this idea IN the Cavern before. Keep MOULa just as it is, as a free-to-play format.. but have an 'exclusive membership' for a small monthly fee, that opens up new, exclusive content for members... things like more D'ni-style clothing, an explorable version of Myst Island as a 'members only area'... access to public instances of rooftops & other areas in the City that are currently closed... if the fee is fairly small, it's not likely to discourage contributions. 'Club Penguin' gets away with about 6 to 7 bucks a month for a paid membership...

I'd pay 6 bucks a month, to be able to hang out in Myst, wearing Saavedro's robe...

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SWtor is getting rid of it's subscription fees because a vast amount of it's player base has left because of the game and the company that runs it.

For a start, You weren't able to switch servers for months after release of the games and many people including myself got stuck on a dead realm it's the main reason why I left and many others.

The second reason were the terrible bugs and glitches every where. When I was in the Beta there were so many bugs but expected those to be fixed for launch... They weren't. The game UI and mechanics are almost identical to World of Warcraft except badly made. Yes the game looks pretty but the only differences are really just the theme of the game and the multiple choice KOTOR type answers. I will say the story is good though but would've been better as just another KOTOR than a badly made MMO

Then the PvP and end game content was badly made and too easy. Nothing really there to do. Not to mention the really bad customer support it was outrageously bad. With WoW's mists of pandaria coming out and Guild Wars 2 a lot of people have left SWtor just because it's not worth the money by a mile.

As for World of Warcraft loads of people are bored with the game at the moment, There hasn't been any new content out for months and a lot of people are getting bored with the grinding model WoW uses not to mention the pure greed of making it's subs spend hundreds of dollars a year.

Now comes in the real threat to both WoW and SWtor... Guild Wars 2. This game lives up to it's hype, It's very well made and free to play (after buying the box). The PvP is top notch, It looks great, The story is great. It's fresh and new approach to MMO's with Rift like Dynamic events made better and just simply everything that was a grind or a chore made fun.

Many people have already left WoW to play Guild Wars 2 and it's only in Beta stage till 25th/28th of August. I think WoW will start to feel the pinch soon as it now has true competition.

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Great, now I have to listen to a certain aquaitence of mine, whom I can't make go away, ramble on about that game instead of WoW...

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Faewn wrote:

Now comes in the real threat to both WoW and SWtor... Guild Wars 2. This game lives up to it's hype, It's very well made and free to play (after buying the box). The PvP is top notch, It looks great, The story is great. It's fresh and new approach to MMO's with Rift like Dynamic events made better and just simply everything that was a grind or a chore made fun.

Many people have already left WoW to play Guild Wars 2 and it's only in Beta stage till 25th/28th of August. I think WoW will start to feel the pinch soon as it now has true competition.

Yes GW2 is set to change MMO's as we know it. i have played in the beta's and the last time i was in awe in a game was the first time i played URU. the GW2 world is alive NPC walk around an talk to each other, kid running around playing getting into snow ball fights witch you can join in, when mobs attack a town they destroy houses kill the NPC and if the players do not stop them the town is gone until the players take it back. there are also jumping puzzle witch kind of take me back to the first days in URU.

here are a few more thing one about WoW and one about NCsoft Reportedly trying to acquire an overseas game company

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/08/02/world-of-warcraft-guild-wars-2-and-vivendi-activisions-achilles-heel/

http://www.kdbdw.com/bbs/download/161672.pdf?attachmentId=161672

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