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WoW unlikely to ever be cost-free, says Blizzard

chautemoc | July 02, 2008 | News | PC 
Paul Sams, the chief operating officer at Blizzard Entertainment recently spoke on behalf the company, stating World of Warcraft isn't likely to ever be free. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, it seems.
Have you been considering free-to-play for World of Warcraft, and if you did, what would the Blizzard way of free-to-play look like?

PS: I don’t envision us changing the business model for World of Warcraft. It’s been working really well in each of the markets.

The game has been designed in such a way to where we determined the business model to wrap that around what the game experience was. Given that we’re not looking to significantly modify the overall gameplay experience, which is I think is something you’d need in order to do item-based stuff, what that says to me is the business model’s going to remain the same for WoW, and then as new products come about for Blizzard, we’ll look at what the business model is that’s right for each of those games.

If we make a game that’s right for an item-based game, then we would do that – if it’s the right business model. But really, the game drives what the business model is. And WoW has been built in such a way where I don’t think that would be the way we’d go.

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    Jaw7765 | July 03, 2008
    well, MMO's now are mostly business except for Guild Wars, but i think with all the people who have been with them from the start should have 1 year Free
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    Ameer | July 03, 2008
    Why would anyone even think this was a possibility at present time?
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    Bale Fire | July 03, 2008
    Indeed were people actually expecting it to be free?

    I wonder if the new Diablio will be free?
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      AznLiquid | July 03, 2008
      D3 will most likely be free-to-play, it's not an MMO and it's played on Battle.net.

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