Guild Wars 2

uknortherner.2670:

The moment Anet start charging a subscription is the moment I uninstall this game. I will never pay a fee to continue playing something I have already purchased up-front, ever.

Never play eso then. You pay upfront as well as monthly subscription for a poor game.

The demand is here for an expansion, frankly Guild Wars 2 was due for an expansion after the first year. The personal story, existing dungeons, and map completion are finished by most veteran players. 2 New areas and less missions than Guild Wars Factions over 2 years doesn’t reflect correctly on the profit margins from the gem store.

A subscription would ruin the game in one or several ways,
A: Most casual players leave because they don’t want to pay
B: “Premium” subscription (Like Runescape) You have free players who never get any attention or updates and members who get to do all the fun stuff and get the swanky gear, basically guilting your F2P players into either leaving once they finish their content or becoming members
C: They charge subscriptions double their profits and continue to release content at the same pace

Expansion Model is far superior
=> Community gets a large lump of new content all at once to placate them
=> Optional for players who are content with current content
=>Provides alternate revenue while keeping the current income structure intact
=> Ability to develop content over longer period of time (If I’m paying monthly I want to see something new every month)
=> If a new “Expansion Team” is created it won’t hinder the current LS team

The only subscription I will endorse is the idea for a gem store subscription perhaps if you buy a 3-24 month subscription you get a 1 time bonus gems plus extra goodies every month when your “monthly” gems are delivered (Perhaps also give 50% more gems when bought this way) The only downside to that is devaluing the Gold<=>Gem ratio

I’d be willing to pay a sub fee, if ANet updated and released content more often and changed their communication policies, but that won’t happen.

Kamikae.9536:

“monthly” gems are delivered

That sounds terrible. It sounds like you are suggesting that you pay for a subscription and then they will slowly give you gems as a sort of allowance and then they’ll give you a set of armor, maybe. Also the business model of “Pay us a subscription fee and then we will give you a discount when you throw more money at us” strikes me and probably a lot of other people the wrong way. A much more preferable way of having a subscription fee to the BL Trading Post would be that when they release new stuff you get ALL of it. No RNG and no BLC keys, you just get all the weapons and all the armor skins, dyes and whatever then maybe they throw in a Name change contract, BLC keys or some small item for being a monthly subscriber.