Why WoW should never be F2P

I would like to first point out that I am just an MMO player and am not in any shape or form representing Blizzard Entertainment.

First of all I would like to direct people to the many forums which people are debating if LOTR will success or fail going F2P.

Secondly I would like to give my opinion about some of the reasons why Blizzard Entertainment would never go free to play.

1. "If it works why change it"

2. World of Warcraft has been a game where having "Large Pockets" does little to nothing for you if you do not void the User Agreement which you are required to agree to when playing world of Warcraft. This includes buying gold from third party websites.

3. World of Warcraft has is one of the only mmo's which is not filled with gold spammers. Many will agree with my views about gold spammers and free to play mmo's. Free to play opens to door to foreign gold selling companies and it ruins a game. It ruins the aspect of freely talking to someone without having to whisper to see what they said and this leads to many people turning off their chat channel which leads a mass variety of things such as it being harder to buy or sell items.

4. BOTS BOTS BOTS BOTS, World of Warcraft does a lot to prevent bots from being within their game by just using the pay to play barrier. Many people do not know this but many of the gold selling bots within World of Warcraft are compromised accounts which were not purchased by gold selling websites.

5. PvP / PvE imbalance: Games which use a cash shop cause their game to become imbalanced because plays with access to the cash shop are "Better" then you based upon my prior comment about "Large Pockets". Yet many would argue about Skill vs. Gear, skill can only go so far since having over powered armor or weapons makes the other player do more damage and take less damage.

This is my option about why Blizzard should never change to F2P.

Thanks for Reading,

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This post has been modified on Jul 01 , 2010 01:23:57 AM by   Maogu.

I totally agree with you. Like most games, more and more bots will come out when it goes F2P (as if there aren't enough already). I agree with the first one and the rest too. It works, so why change it? It's fun, affordable and fun to play.

I agree with you. WoW is great the way it is. Most of the F2P use over powered cash shops to earn money and I hope Blizzard will not choose to do so, so they should stick with P2P.

Well I think that P2P works for WoW because...Well its freaking World Of Warcraft! But games like LoTRO WarHammerOnline Darkfall etc they had a ton of subscribers going in but there so many MMORPGs coming out now the MMORPG gamers are spreading out so they have new content patches every couple of months to keep people interested BUT still people stop playing. F2P allows people to sort of come and go at a much quicker rate. Some games will need this to survive in such a competitive market. I think we should follow LoTRO very carefully in the years to come because if it goes well(And anyone in there right mind knows it will.) expect to see everyone jump on the P2P gone F2P train which isn't always a bad thing competition is good for the consumer most of the time.Personally I really think Runescape was the first game to have a decent F2P P2P base structure except for the whole free to play world Pay to Play world.

I wish Lord Of The Rings Online the best and World Of Warcraft should not go F2P until the year 2042.

Yah! WOW should never be f2p!

I no longer play WoW, but I am going to have to agree WoW should never be F2P. There is nothing more annoying then gold spammers, and bots.
This post has been modified on Jun 26 , 2010 12:40:23 AM by   mazic.

If WoW is a f2p, It wouldn't be a game that I'll remember anymore. It has been a P2p and it'll always be. despite all the negative things about f2p, even without the facts I will not think WoW is an epic game anymore
This post has been modified on Jun 26 , 2010 12:50:11 AM by   VinalG4ce.

If WOW is F2P , then  whole world is gonna turn into RETARD !!!!! ..........wow clone , wow clone , wow clone, wow clone

RETARD !!!! stop saying every game is wow clone

Blizzard has made so much money off of WoW the past 6 yrs , they can buy Mexico and Cuba if they wanted to. 121 million in one month of sub fees. Blizzard CEO wipes his assz with Gold Bars and blows his nose with a suitcase full 1000 dollar bills. My point is ...Blizzard has made its money off of WoW..I bet they really dont give a shitt if its p2p or f2p with CS.  So its more like a why bother? Situation. They dont care enough to bother with f2p. they have other things to worry about other than what Turbine is doing with their games. WoW will never  be f2p. Other mmo companies should be glad at this fact also. the whole reason they go f2p is so they dont have to compete with The  mmorpg killer. WoW killers in the past years have just been chewed up and spat out by the 2 headed Beast.What can i say? Love it or Hate it..wow is and will always be considered the best and most succesfull mmorpg of all time.

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2010-06-21/what_if_wow_was_f2p,1.shtml

Case in point.
This post has been modified on Jun 26 , 2010 02:20:35 AM by   LordYanLiang.

People need to stop making these posts because lets face it wow has lost the plot everything in the game is too easy even 25man heroics, no challenege left in the game at all very boring nowadays that is y i quit a week ago after 4 years. i enjoyed the game bk in 2006 when i started playing and ws raiding places lk kara (epic) that was before they nerfed all the dungeons so the SLACKERS could go see all the end game contents, just lost interest after that. But no wow should never go F2P it will be over hwelmed by bots specially since they can shout in trade.

Easy to say ... The Company is ****ing Greed !!!

i really really .. REALLY hate some 1 talk about this game ,, Grow up people .. ِAloud of mmo's are better than this CRAP !!!

I feel NCsoft wanna deal with the same way ... geeez

wow sucks

I think WOW should be P2P for ever. If it would be F2P, a lot of children and bots would start play. I think thath we pay for this game, helps for Blizzard to update WOW :)

I lol'ed at your point of veiw. Bots and spam is in p2p did you ever log into aion at start?
And as we speak blizz stopped caring about ppl buying gold and no need to spam cause companys have allready stole the market like ign.com. ppl bot nonstop as we speak. Dont think their going to add in cash shops so yea.

I'd just like to add that while Blizzard brought in a stunning amount of cash last year because of it's many players, it can't be easy or cheap to maintain servers for 11 million players and keep everything running smoothly. I don't know what DDO is looking to gain by going F2P, but I think that format would ruin WoW before long.

I agree, but this is not just WoW, for Aion and others MMORPG's too. But I agree as said, OFC.

I really like the first reason, because normally when something is working all fine, the best thing to do is just to leave it alone, just in case it brokes up because we tinker with it....

What a shame when something is all right and then you mess it up in an attempt to improve it.

A sentence from http://news.mmosite.com/content/2010-06-21/what_if_wow_was_f2p,1.shtml

"Most F2P games have poorer graphics because they cannot afford as many (or as talented) programmers and designers, or have to specifically cut corners to present a product that could turn a profit."

I'd just like to point out hat this person may be underrating the graphics of F2P games and overrating the graphics of WoW.

Any 3rd rate college graduate whom walked through college as an average student and learned any graphic design could whip up those graphics/art at anytime. The art itself is so-so.

Not putting WoW down, but I think WoW thrived solely due to effective business strategy, a good plot and great gameplay. Definitely not the art.

Do not underestimate F2P games they may have their problems, but P2P games have their own problems too. The problems are just not in the same category. The are overall in equal standings in the entertainment it delivers and quality.

Of course I'm not saying there's no bad F2P games, same can be said for P2P games.

If WoW was F2P it wouldn't be bad mmo, it just wouldn't be WoW anymore. That should be the proper way to answer "Why WoW should never be F2P"