Ex EA Dev:”Old Republic will be one of the GREATEST FAILURES ever for MMO's

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Rainbird said:

Hephaestos said:

Rainbird said:

Hephaestos said:

oh and GW has it's own crowd... the one that hates paying monthly fees... so you could almost consider this 2 different genres... they do crossover, but they are still separate crowds.

So you're saying that GW2 and SW:TOR have different audiences because GW2 is cheaper? GW2 is looking to be far more revolutionary then TOR for the MMO genre, so I'd say the two are very much competing.

they are competing, but i'm arguing that a significant portion of the crowd will not even consider the other game based on the pricing plan.

A lot of GW2 players will get it because of the no monthly fees. A lot of  players will not consider it because to them if it's free it'll mean it sucks too much to charge. I hardly doubt most of the WoW players even made research on MMOs before going there, they have premade opinions.

I think GW2 has a lot of MMO players excited though, even ones who didn't like the original. 

Im one of those, I never played the original guild wars and never thought about playing it until guild wars 2 was announced but now I just want to wait for guild wars 2.  I cant believe that a game as promising and good looking as guild wars 2 is going to have no subscription fee, only the cost of the game itself.  For years I would defend subscription based mmo's based on the amount of maintenance and updates that needed to be implemented, I felt it was worth it.  If guild wars 2 comes out and is better than almost any other p2p mmo, I will never pay a sub fee for an mmo again.  The star wars mmo looks interesting and I absolutely love bioware, but guild wars 2 may never let me pursue that interest.