Pay 2 Play MMO Doing Good? Try OUTSTANDING!!!

[Nargrakhan]

Naturally the 800 pound gorilla that is Activision Blizzard is doing well…

http://www.digitalbattle.com/2009/05/07 … e-profits/

… but even the smaller fish like NCsoft report major profits too…

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/ncso … -jump-451/

Take that “Only Free 2 Play will Survive” supporters.

[sanahtlig]

Pay-to-Play MMOs have one big advantage over the free-to-play models–the monthly subscription tends to keep the undesirables away (e.g., kiddies and trolls). The MMO experience is decided as much by the player community as the game itself; a great game with a terrible community probably won’t be much fun.

[Kabraxal]

I detest MMO games in general, so meh to both…

Okay, to be fair: I hate paying for a game and then having to pay monthly fees to be able to play it. So pay 2 play is basically off limits to me.

But free 2 play is either poor quality or filled with those aforementioned undesirables… you just can’t win.

[Jinnai]

@Dark_Shiki

Pay-to-Play MMOs have one big advantage over the free-to-play models–the monthly subscription tends to keep the undesirables away (e.g., kiddies and trolls). The MMO experience is decided as much by the player community as the game itself; a great game with a terrible community probably won’t be much fun.

Well they akso have the advantage of generally better dungeons and quests instead of a bunch of generic “kill x mobs” or “get x items” which happen to only drop by killing mobs. They also tend to have better world architecture.

I would say graphics are generally better, but some of the free ones now have better graphics quality than WoW.

[Doug]

@Jinnai

@Dark_Shiki

Pay-to-Play MMOs have one big advantage over the free-to-play models–the monthly subscription tends to keep the undesirables away (e.g., kiddies and trolls). The MMO experience is decided as much by the player community as the game itself; a great game with a terrible community probably won’t be much fun.

Well they akso have the advantage of generally better dungeons and quests instead of a bunch of generic “kill x mobs” or “get x items” which happen to only drop by killing mobs. They also tend to have better world architecture.

I would say graphics are generally better, but some of the free ones now have better graphics quality than WoW.

Since I’ve started playing Runes of Magic ya you get a few undesirables but you also have to deal with the item shop stuff too. Which can lead to a HUGE advantage over players who don’t use it. (Permanent mounts, XP / Talent point potions etc.)

[Jinnai]

@Doug

@Jinnai

@Dark_Shiki

Pay-to-Play MMOs have one big advantage over the free-to-play models–the monthly subscription tends to keep the undesirables away (e.g., kiddies and trolls). The MMO experience is decided as much by the player community as the game itself; a great game with a terrible community probably won’t be much fun.

Well they akso have the advantage of generally better dungeons and quests instead of a bunch of generic “kill x mobs” or “get x items” which happen to only drop by killing mobs. They also tend to have better world architecture.

I would say graphics are generally better, but some of the free ones now have better graphics quality than WoW.

Since I’ve started playing Runes of Magic ya you get a few undesirables but you also have to deal with the item shop stuff too. Which can lead to a HUGE advantage over players who don’t use it. (Permanent mounts, XP / Talent point potions etc.)

Yea, but that’s not much different from giving someone 5k gold in WooW for sleeping with them. It amounts to the same thing.

[Nargrakhan]

Two outstanding articles that examine why several major MMO’s failed:

The MMO Crash of 2008

We need to talk about Tabula Rasa; when will we talk about Tabula Rasa?

Good stuff about bad things.