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Originally Posted by Trox20
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You sure you looked at that right....from what I'm seeing the Official forums Newbie Zone has over 382K posts with over 31k topics, and then you also have to take into account the fact that the Official forums have around 5-6 different sections (depends on how you want to divide them up) that combined would then equal what Server Chat here is used for. Hate to burst your bubble but EQLive is still doing alright for itself.
People keep saying that F2P is the death knell of a game, but you really shouldn't be surprised that companies are moving over to that model after it has pretty much resurrected a few games that all but had their plugs pulled (DDO being one of the best examples). Companies are in the business of making money so they are going to switch to a business model that appears to bring in the most money.
Unfortunately it seems that the day of the hardcore MMO; that is going to challenge you from the beginning, is pretty much over, but I blame the "Give me now I deserve everything now" generation that is coming up more than the gaming companies for that. I probably should blame the parents more because if they had taught their kids that you have to work for the best things in life then maybe they wouldn't be such spoiled little brats.
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The traditional hardcore gamer is still out there, just more people are using pcs because theyve become so easy to use and essential to have. Now we have way more people online who would never have come near a pc or hard game in the old days.
All we need is a developer to realise, while there may be 10 million players willing to play an easy handholding game, who have to be coddled and bribed with constant content updates and gifts or theyll go to the next new shiny thing, there are a million traditional players, who if given a solid, challenging game will be long term loyal customers and still very profitable.