I imagine the DDOS thing as of late was a contributor to this decision. I don't think it's necessarily a bad one. SOE hasn't really dont anything notable in a long time. EQ Next is all hot air thus far and I doubt it'll be anything close to what they're promising. That's my cynicism anyways.

FTP games have subscription options. For example, DCUO is FTP, but also has subscriptions. And revenue can also come from microtransactions. And ads.

EverQuest also has a FTP option, AND subscription. Idk about microtransactions, but last I played, it did have ads. So you see, loads of revenue avenues even for FTP games!

I do hope this helped.

I am completely aware that there are revenue streams from F2P games... However I assume that's not the largest revenue stream from SOE's games, mainly because EQ hasn't been big for ages. Subscription revenue =/= Ad/microtransaction revenue

Thanks for the spin and damage control. The reality is Sony fans have been hyped about Planetside 2, H1Z1, and Everquest on PS4. Now all those IPs could potentially be on Xbox.

If MS sold something like Killer Instinct and it came to PS4, people would say that's another nail in the coffin for Xbox. Yet Sony selling an entire studio that had PS4 console exclusives is not big news?

Frankly, this news is delicious. Sony fans kept telling us Xbox is going to lose support because of PS4 domination. But who suspected Sony's financial situation is making them sell IPs which are now coming to Xbox?

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Sony selling SOE isn't that bad. The studio has always been very PC-focused and didn't have much interest in console development. That's probably why Sony sold them. To date they've only actually released one PS4 game, and that was just a port of a PS3 game. Planetside 2 was supposed to be a launch title for PS4 but it's still not out. Why? Because SOE directs all their resources to PC. I find it funny that people think Daybreak is going to start releasing a bunch of new Xbox games. They barely even worked on PS4 games. I wouldn't see any console ports of a game releasing until years after the game had actually been launched.

The studio is not an integral part of Playstation They only actually released 3 games on PS3 and PS4 and only one of the games wasn't just a port of PC title. Seriously, all the concern trolling of "Sony is selling of game studios!" is ridiculous.

Doesn't seem so. Apparently you didn't even know they have subscription models. I appreciate the smarmy /s though, gave me a good laugh.

I'm not quite sure how you'd think that I don't know that F2P games have revenue streams. Do you think I'm an idiot?

I didn't know of the SOE allaccess thing which is the subscription SOE has that covers all their games. Not quite sure how you interpret that into meaning that I don't know that F2P games make money at all though. I've played LoL and Smite and TF2, as well as a few other F2P games. I haven't been living under a rock for the past years if that's what you think.

You have to keep posts like this out of this thread. Did you not see sales get banned?

All the SOE fans on this forum... never would have guessed!

That is how Sony operates, I'm just making it clear that selling SOE really doesn't have anything to do with playstation.  Big news for Sony, just a changing of lists for fanboys as far as playstation goes.