Guys like you anger me so much. You have no idea what your talking about. They went F2P because the population can no longer sustain the game on a subscription basis. If a company can charge $15 a month they will, its obviously better. But F2P has its own benefits as they learned from DDO. Sure you can play for free but your GREATLY limited in what you can do. The optimal way is to buy from the market or have a sub.

Going F2P basically opened up the game to those people who can't afford a standard sub, or don't want to. But once in the game people will love it and spend money, just like DDO.

You want to get made at someone? Get made at gamers for not playing one of the best made MMO's out their. Don't get mad at Turbine for doing what it has to do survive.

Do you get made at a car company when the value of your car goes down? Because someone 3 years can get it for 5k cheaper? Yea didn't think so.

@Sol Kyoshiro

as you can tell from my previous comments that I am a huge fan of turbine and lotro. Getting that out of the way I can tell you that you are completely wrong. The devs themselves have stated that they were not hurting subs wise and that the game was doing well. They went f2p not because the game needed to survive but because they saw the opportunity. They saw how successful ddo was and wanted to earn more money. They came out and said all of that. Hence why you are wrong.

How about you all quit whining.