F2P mmo's to replace "paid for gaming"? and in depth look

you know there out there.. free 2 play mmo's the bane of proper pc gaming.. they make some folks quiver at the thought.

however id like to share with you an interesting article i discovered at RPS.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02/05/there-are-an-awful-lot-of-mmos-heres-some/

this past year we saw alot of these cretinous creations escape they cages over at gpotatoe, ijji, nexon and the like..and heres but a small taste of the fugitive list.

its not long.. i dare say it DWARFS a list of paid for mmo's going back DOUBLE its time frame..

it begs to ask the question if its even meaningful to charge for an MMO anymore from a real developer/publisher. of course those paid for games generally are of a higher grade and dont use servers older than my parents and routinely get good maintanence updates and content additions. but it seems to me that qyality just cant stack up... and like the might panzer before it. is losing a war of quantity to the cheap sherman or t-34 (whichever you feel comfortable relating to).

MMOs that you have pay for monthly will have always bring higher-quality content often to keep profitable. The F2P model may be bringing more revenues but it also has the potential to bring imbalanced gameplay where the users paying money will always have better items/gear/dungeons than those who use the free content available to them.the_ChEeSe_mAn2

Well, I can only speak for myself and say that every single F2P MMO I have tried has ended up being extremely disapointing. The quality you get for a paid MMO is worth the money. I don't plan on ever touching another F2P game again. The low quality and rampant amounts of micro-transactions in these games quickly kills any amount of entertainment I might get out of the title.