Pirates of the Burning Sea to go F2P with next expansion

Their ships are sinking... oh well might give it a shot, har har har

I was so hoping for Planteside to be the next one to go F2P

Been interested in the game for awhile now, mainly because it isn't sci-fi or fantasy.

Wow! These are news I was waiting for! Pirates is a very good game - but not good enough to compete with WoW and EVE and LotRO. However if it will be free to play - I probably quit EVE (very similar experience - maybe even more interesting with port battles)

Why not Vanguard, SOE? :(

Conventional Wisdom 2006: "WoW makes a lot of money! Let's clone WoW!"

(several hundred failed games later)

Conventional Wisdom 2010: "F2P makes a lot of money! Let's go F2P!"

a very good game indee - i know many people that will come back now. and finally, they'll even earn money with it ^^

Well now there's an excellent excuse to dig out my plastic parrot and eyepatch

I've been a fan of PotBS for a long time, but have long since felt that $15 a month was far too much to be charging for something that lacked a lot of the trappings of usual triple-A titles, so I moved on. This game is MORE than worth a go for F2P, though; it's a unique experience and has a charm all its own. I'll be picking it up again and I highly recommend giving it a shot to anyone who hasn't.

Sweet, I've looked at this one before but never really thought it was worth a shot. Reasonably complicated learning curve (at least it used to be) and a distinct lack of players seemed to make it feel like it was doomed to nichedom. Should prove interesting to try this one out when it goes F2P.

Well rats I just bought a boxed copy and a 30 day timecard and was hoping to wait a bit to use til I got bored with LOTRO.

Yes, why not Planetside... Well, I'm guessing the answer is SOE would have to invest more time into the game to make it F2P. Why not let it die a slow cruel death and leech what subscriptions it can until that happens?

I wish Planetside was F2P. I'd pay a couple bucks to be able to rotate inventory items for customized fits, have access to enemy weapons and vehicles, get front of the line access to drop into pop locked continents (F2P would make these more regular again), acquire cool looking flair to customize your character with and xp boost for CEP and BEP.

Or SOE could just call Hi-Rez and sell it to them cheap...

I wish the best to PotBS, I toyed with it a while back and found it somewhat fun. Maybe I'll give it another go.

I'm super excited about this! I've been wanting to play a good pirate game for a while, but haven't found one I've liked very much. Now, I'll give this one a go.

I'm still a little wary of how many MMOs are going F2P (mainly because I dislike overly intrusive cash shops and especially item malls), but in this case I think it's probably the best decision Flying Lab could have made for their interesting little MMO.

I was in PotBS beta for almost a year and I adored the ship combat, but all told the rest of the game really wasn't up to that standard (too much economical grind to stay supplied with ships, avatar combat was terrible, etc.) and ultimately I felt it wasn't worth paying a subscription for after the first month of launch. I think this game will really suit F2P and hopefully will get a huge influx of players, because that ocean map and the ports need to be busy to be interesting.

I'll watch how they implement the micro-transactions with interest - if they're not too intrusive (especially to PvP) I may dip back in for some ship combat and even spend a bit of cash in gratitude for what gaming enjoyment I get from it.

Oh and I agree with everyone else - I wish Planetside would go F2P - an MMOFPS needs to be F2P when there's so many new FPS multiplayer games giving a similar experience for free (and MMOs like Global Agenda too). I really hope Planetside 2 will be built to have no subscription, but I'm hoping for a Guild Wars model more than true F2P.