Free To Play: How's It Going To Work For Guild Wars 2

[JohnnyV]

Ok, Arenanet has already announced that Guild Wars 2 will be free-to-play. Since that announcement, there have been little details surrounding the pricing structure of the game. One would assume they'll simply adopt the frequent expansion model like they did for the original game.

However, Guild Wars was heavily instanced which allowed them to take in gamers for free. With a fully persistent world, with massive servers, one wonders how F2P will work. Will they go with micro-transactions like they've been doing with Guild Wars in the later years?

Will we see updates which require a small purchase?

How do you think A-Net will handle being able to provide 'play for free', while maintaining what is sure to be massively populated servers?

[Mrfoot]

wow thats Really hard to pick lol, hmmm i think over all the game Will Cost $50-$60 But i think they will sell a Bonus pack or art work and a in-game item or something that might Cost around $100 or so, i think the game over all will be Free but they might have Alot of new stuff to buy, and updates not really sure what you mean, might be like a DLC cost $10 or $15 for 3 new maps 50 new items that over all i think would be Fine. but if they plan on makeing us pay for Every little thing they can make us pay for idk how this would turn out for us players.

[Pittski]

I think they will Charge the expansions as DLC, also charge to raise your lvl cap. I can see 10 bucks for 10 levels and 25 for 30 levels.

Special seasonal Armor and weapons would also be a profit build in which players would use game credit to purchase but in order to do that they would have to pay with real money to get this credit.

[Venn]

A GW staple has always been freebie holiday stuff, so I wouldn't bet on them charging for that stuff. Never know though.

The level grind also seems to be a commonplace MMO trapping. I think Anet is going out of their way to not fall into may of those. I loved that you could get to max level in a weekend. Well if you did Factions anyway lol.

But you're probably right about microtransactions for some special skins. I'd say like they do in the current game with skins, more character slots, character alterations etc.

[Mrfoot]

yes i think they might Do DLC , but i dont think they well make you pay for levels but you never know, i kind of hated they fact that it was Maxed at 20 ): i think they need to make it 30-40 this time around lol, but yes in most MMO's leveling/Grinding is the Trap you fall in to lol.

BTW Pittsky BLEACH!! FTW!!! ^^^

[Ruse]

I don't know but I will happily pour money into their coffers to keep the game going if it's half as great as it's sounding so far. I will buy every little goodie pack they come out with, lol.

[Pittski]

I don't know but I will happily pour money into their coffers to keep the game going if it's half as great as it's sounding so far. I will buy every little goodie pack they come out with, lol.

I won't Paying for PC content that should be free. It just feeding the Trolls. Only Payments I am willing to Pay if it is Expansion type Content, if it is something like pets or items that should be in the game already I won't be giving out more money for something I already payed for. Server Maintence is Cheap on the Developer side, The Upload/Download they get is in a Contracted Package and The Servers themselves are already payed for by the publisher. Lets not forget the more people who support DLC will also be eventually paying for Updates for a game. WoW brought in the DLC feature and now everyone is taking advantage of it. its coming out of our pockets.

[Ruse]

Wow also charges a subscription fee, which is why it's stupid there. GW2 won't. I'm also not sure what trolls have to do with anything, unless you're calling me one, in which case you're probably right.

[Mrfoot]

^^ i Troll more then you mate (: hehe, as for DLC Pittski gots a Point, its all payed before they even do anything lol, but in some sense they are here to make More cash then they Spent and with a Free MMO it Might be abit hard, so i think its more of a wait and see and hope they give Free but if they dont i really hope its not like $15 for DLC and junk lol

[Ruse]

Based on the fact they aren't charging a subscription with this game either, I don't really see them being overly greedy.

I enjoy the fact that in the original Guild Wars I can change up my characters' appearances if I want, I can buy more character slots, etc. I feel like everything I paid for in that game I more than got my money's worth out of.

EDIT: As for trolling I'm on my best behavior here. Not so much on the AoC forums.