Week in Review: Boldly going

Looking forward to Guild Wars 2
Intrigued by The Secret World
Don't care for any of the others and don't care for any don'T care about WoW anymore.

It is unfortunate that this game, and all the others, through Cryptic could have been so much more if another company did them. I am upset, the most, at Star Trek. I don't think it was how a Star Trek MMO should have been. Feels like it was a disgrace, IMO. How amazing it would be if Bethesda did even a regular Star Trek game, I would lvoe it.

Perhaps they could focus on fixing their buggy missions? I'm tired of having to redo missions. D:

I've played WoW since launch, up until I leveled to 85 through Cata and got bored for the first time. Either I changed, or it changed, but either way I'm not coming back. I can't imagine I'm alone (and clearly I'm not!)... so I think MAYBE they've gotten a little out of touch with their customer base...

Totally excited for GW2 and Shh (that's what I'm calling The Secret World)

Excited about GW2 and SWTOR and I wish Secret Worl will not be as much of a failure as AoC was.

Looking forward to ArcheAge and GW2. Observing Swtor if it will be good I might think about playing it.
Definately not going to play TSW , even though game seems interesting putting cash shop into a subscription game is a BIG NO NO for me. Failcom indeed.

Could not care less about STO going f2p tbh, bad game is a bad game. Won't play a bad game just becasue I don't have to pay sub , especially that is has p2w item store.

WoW, - well WoW is aging. To add to that Blizzard took a bad direction with this game for my tastes at least. Too much add-on dependancy in this game (horrid things like enemy cast bar in pvp) , too fast levelling , faceroll PvE content in open world , slow updates , in 7 years they did not add such simple thing like a warddrobe or even simplest instanced housing. Players are sitting in cities becasue of dungeon finder. Well this game is just going downwards for last few years and it does not seem like it is going to change.

The usual sweeteners to lifetime sub buyers. But F2P will always leave sick in the mouth of customers like that. Still, may the buyer beware.

Call me frugal, but I'm hesitant to pay a monthly subscription for more than one game at a time. I suspect many others feel the same way.

STO has set on my desktop unpaid and unplayed since January or so. imho, F2P is a smart move for all but the most popular MMOs today. I am not going to (or would not have) resub to STO/CO/AoC/DDO/LOTRO/EQ2 or any number of other games that I have bought and subbed to over the years. Once I leave a game, I am hesitant to return. The F2P model changes that, though. I have gone back to every one of the above games (well, will go back to STO) after they went F2P and I still play them from time to time. When I am playing, I am very apt to spend $5-10 here and there to get stuff I might want. Maybe it's unlocking a class or race, or just some gear to twink my character a bit. Either way, I spend money with a company that I would otherwise have not spent any money with.

I feel only blockbuster games can really afford to use a traditional paid subscription model these days. WoW will continue to be successful with one, and I suspect TOR will do very well with one. But most other MMOs will begin to see a loss in profits as players move on to other games. The only way to keep those players coming back is to move to F2P.