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Old 2013-03-06, 15:57   Link #63
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Join Date: Nov 2003
World of Warcraft is the only MMORPG that is allowed to have a subscription based billing

And they can only do so because

1) they have your lv 80 characters, which you have put way too much hours into, as hostage
2) they have a freaking large online community.

Otherwise, subscription based MMORPG needs to die. period.

is F2p the answer? In theory, yes. But in a practice it can easily abused. This is where Pay To Win and Pay To Have Fun models come from

But I think F2p does more good than harm.

if everything is free eventually people will flock towards the best ones of their respective genre.
And even if in the very unlikely situation that all games are equal in quality, people will still be forced to choose, because you can only play so many MMORPGs at a time.
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