Trion Worlds Simon Finch seems convinced that players want F2P MMO’s

Trion Worlds' Simon Ffinch seems convinced that gamers want F2P content. Confusing their attitude regarding distrust towards publishers, Ffinch claims F2P is the answer... instead of demo's, free trials, or independent journalism. Right.

[Eldyraen]

Personally I enjoy them all although quality is paramount.

Subscription is harder to sell in a sense but I'm actually more likely to have faith in a game that costs something (even small amount and then no p2p) than a pure F2P game. Granted that is the good thing about f2p as if no cost to join anways and zero risk to try it. The problem is most completely f2p MMOs aren't as "good" as subscription (although varies and subjective) as too much of a risk to spend "too much".

[3-4-5]

The nice thing about paying for games is usually the ones you pay for are the ones that aren't broken and full of bugs.

Yea you have to pay, but you actually get to play the game instead of dealing with bugs and BS.

[papashango]

Trion mmo's suck

[DeadlyFire]

Pure free to play model just doesn't work for me. 90% of the games with that model offers nothing for the freebie player so quality is lacking unless you buy in to win/balance yourself.

[_LarZen_]

I have played so many F2P games and many of them are good games. But all the time you play there is that pressure that you have to cash out to get anywhere.

It's not a comfortable feeling when playing. I like to pay 1 time and work for the rest of it in the game.

After years with F2P games there is not one I have kept playing for a long time. As I see it F2P games are ruining more games then helping.

[DeadlyFire]

Developers only see that its a free entry into a game world and think you will instantly buy up stuff to play that game. Doesn't always work out, but in the long run it always makes a profit over MMOs that crash due to subscription fees. Economy is weak in many regions as well they think this is the only way they can survive on the market. To me its just a way to make a game without worrying about the quality. As a quality game could survive on its own even with a subscription.

Quality bar for Free to play has never been very high to me. As most stuff you are pressured to buy. There is a reason why Zygna crashed in the past year or so with lack of profit. People just see no replay value in something that says buy something extra every week.

[JunioRS101]

Developers are always bitching about costs and losses, and then you have "the rise of F2P games" ???

Talk about ironic.

[thekhurg]

Many developers will admit they make more money going F2P. People buy stuff on those micro transaction stores like crazy. I know people that literally set aside $50 a month for consumables.

I know Bioware/EA saw a huge boost once they went F2P for SWTOR.

[NegativeCreepWA]

I prefer the way Guild Wars 2 was and is still being handled, I never felt like I had a pay wall in front of me, though I did spend plenty while playing it.

Purchase the game to cover dev cost, and rely on micro transactions to cover server cost.

[Enigma_2099]

No, people want free... tat's it.