PAX East 2011: Will World of Warcraft ever go free-to-play?

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3-17-2011 @ 9:30AM

gamerunknown said...

Not to mention the ease of creating a free to play account will drastically alter the community. In Flyff for example the gold selling spam made it impossible to actually see other player's comments in the starting area. Trolls and scammers in RuneScape could simply continually make new accounts using a proxy. While there are unsavory characters at level 85 in WoW, you know that they've had to pay $100 or so to get to the level they're at and likely wouldn't want to repeat that process. That said, I think it's reasonable to let players in countries have a lowered subscription fee based on the average wage in that country (I think that's what is currently in operation in China at the moment anyway).

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