Wildstar, a Carbine Studio's sci-fi MMORPG, with only lauching a year ago they are going to be dropping the paid-subscription model to make the game F2P. On the NCSoft website they stated;
Since launch we’ve listened to all of your feedback and worked hard to improve your game experience. Part of that goal has always been to bring more players in to experience WildStar, and that's what Free-to-Play is all about.
This is what the wanted to truly say;
Okay, okay. We know that we have a good game here, but no one is buying it. So what we are going to is make the game free to play in hopes that we gain player popularity and can rape the players with in-game purchases. This way we will finally be able to get our profit in the positives.
What chance did a subscription model game based on an unknown original IP have in a market segment that couldn’t support a Star Wars MMO made by one of gaming’s most successful development houses have to really make it? The answer is none and we can see this in their sales numbers.
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Although I give them some slack for being idiotic and trying to play with the big boys, I will be downloading the game the day it launches free to play.
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