Guild Wars 2

Although the MMO industry’s quickly moving to a “free to play” model, a number of major MMOs, including one that was recently released, are still subscription-based. And because these games typically provide a free month of online play along with its purchase cost, players have a decision to make whether they will continue to pony up at month’s end.

So, if GW2 was subscription-based, and now being the time when you’d have to make a decision, would you subscribe?

I think the vast majority of players would, though I personally would not. This would be a first for me in nearly 13 years of playing MMOs.

I don’t agree with paying for a game plus a monthly fee to have the right to keep playing, it so the answer is no. Actually if it was a subscription game I wouldn’t even have bought it in the first place.

If it was subscripton I would not have picked it up in the 1st place.

Except for Xbox live I NEVER pay to play a game that I just bought, I don’t see the point on spending £40 just to get it home then paying £15 a month to play it.

Its basically saying “Yes you own the disk and the content on the disk, but we won’t let you play without more money”.

Gosh.. seriously who the kitten cares about what might have been?

GW2 deserves my $$$ :p

The game’s not designed to be a sub MMO, so no.

I probably wouldn’t have taken the chance on the game if there’d been a subscription fee. Would have missed out in a big way, but the B2P aspect really drew me in.