106257-how-long-till-the-games-goes-free-to-play

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			Best guesses, lets hear it	
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Chua think about this long:
 
 
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			About never, I would say.	
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Oh man. Did we go a whole day without this ignorant topic coming up again?
 
Man, I feel so let down.
 
/ugh
 
/eyeroll
 
/wave	
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			Never	
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			6-7 months at the current rate or else it'll just die.This game isn't EVE.	
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			Carbine has stated they'd shut the game down before it went free to play, so never. kk I win, next topic	
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Never
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I remember this old saying...something about "never say never" ...unfortunately it's ultimately up to NcSoft, not Carbine.
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			i'll have to wait for the ncsoft earnings report, but if  wildstar isn't doing at least as well as Gw2 did  for its first quarter; i would say Soontm	
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Says who?
Human read contract between NCsoft and Carbine?
Human working for companies?
Human working in said industry even?
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Its still too early to put a serious guesstimate. Given the scene right now, you won't have a true look at Wildstar's future until after WoD has been out for a couple months. Until then, there really is no way to really make any serious guesses on it. Wildstar has just gone through the "content locust/migrators", and will likely lose some more come WoD. Over time, other will come back after fixes, and others still after they tire of WoD (I'd probably say 3-4 months.). So until ~March/April of next year, it'll basically just be random guesses.
 
Even then, I'd guess that they'd go B2P over full on F2P, with F2P being the last resort. As the game is now, it really isn't built for F2P. They'd have to make considerable changes to the game to make it F2P enabled to really succeed in a F2P market, so B2P would likely be able to maintain the standards they have now to more of a degree, adopting a GW2 style of model where difficult combat wouldn't be a death knell for the game, since most of the F2P players who buy things are the ones who...well...want to glide through things.	
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			why are we still debating this? See my previous post :)	
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			BTW It's already Free to Play for me.	
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			If anything WS would go buy to play, free to play games are just cash shop (Pay 2 win) games that I don't want to be apart of. But I don't think WS is going to go B2P or F2P any time soon.	
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Best guesses, lets hear it
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			A good question would be is how long until Carbine realizes just because they have content available for the next year they don't have to drop it every month to keep players? Instead they should fix their bugs and make the game better overall instead of bringing even more issues around. When will they get that figured out?	
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A good question would be is how long until Carbine realizes just because they have content available for the next year they don't have to drop it every month to keep players? Instead they should fix their bugs and make the game better overall instead of bringing even more issues around. When will they get that figured out?
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why are we still debating this? See my previous post :)
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Carbine has stated they'd shut the game down before it went free to play, so never. kk I win, next topic
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Well if they don't do a drop with content, the forum would fill up with people complaining about that. People always like to complain. Though it would be nice to see a drop called "Bug-b-gone" that is nothing but 1000s and 1000s of bug fixes.
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Hey, look, this thread again, right on time for today.
 
Tune in next time, same Cupcake time, same cupcake forum.	
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			As there are no plans to go F2P, and we have at least one very large thread about population/server merges, I'm going to go ahead and lock this one up.	
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