In your opinion, should the game be free? Or cost less per month?

The game subscription is fine. What should be for free are the damn retainers tho. Or at least pay once, have them forever.

The amount of money per month is fine. It's less than 2 hours of work at minimum wage where I live.

The issue is the content we get has been lackluster since 3.0. They really dropped the ball with the expansion. After I beat the story and ran the endgame dungeons that was it and there hasn't really been anything since. I did try PvP out of desperation and ended up enjoying it but queues lately have been ridiculous and often have gone 2+ hours, so even that fun is fading fast.

Maybe I'll try LoV but I've heard the queues are bad as well.

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Originally Posted by Ageofwar

not to mention that if it was to go F2P the game will get even worse (as many F2P games do) and will likely die off in about a year due to the game being even more grindly than it is now to get you to pay for boosts from the cash stop.

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Yep.. been through at least 4 of those.

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Originally Posted by ksuisa

The amount of money per month is fine. It's less than 2 hours of work at minimum wage where I live.

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Are you positive it's ok? I mean one bottle of fantasia is 9 dollars. That's 60% the cost of the fee. So with cash prices and a monthly fee, don't you think we as a community would see better changes? If you bought a fantasia each month plus paid the fee you'd be giving them 288 dollars a year.

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Originally Posted by Jetstream_Fox

Are you positive it's ok? I mean one bottle of fantasia is 9 dollars. That's 60% the cost of the fee. So with cash prices and a monthly fee, don't you think we as a community would see better changes? If you bought a fantasia each month plus paid the fee you'd be giving them 288 dollars a year.

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Fantasia allows you to completely change your race/gender, That and the name change are the only things that actually needs to be in cash shop, Heavly optional, and really shouldn't be givin as an example, aka you never have to buy one. so it shouldn't matter.

I think that in the year of 2015 and ingame Microtransaction cash shops no MMO warrants a monthly fee any longer.
They are double dipping for as long as they can.

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Originally Posted by Granyala

I think that in the year of 2015 and ingame Microtransaction cash shops no MMO warrants a monthly fee any longer.
They are double dipping for as long as they can.

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So you rather have to go outside the scope of glamour and actually make the optional item shop a true cash shop in order to remove the monthly fee? Pretty sure more would be upset about that.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

So you rather have to go outside the scope of glamour and actually make the optional item shop a true cash shop in order to remove the monthly fee? Pretty sure more would be upset about that.

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there are right ways and wrong ways to do a cash shop. GW2 does it right, wow does it wrong. At this point, I rather buy more retainers than have a sub fee, but I don't really want to do both.

The monthly fee is fine. The cash shop items are optional glamour items, don't buy them if you don't want to. You can still play the complete game without them.

$12 a month for unlimited play time is cheap. Skip one lunch/dinner out and you more than paid for your monthly fee.

With the need to buy additional (almost necessary) retainer space, and a cash shop, I think it should move to paid, full price expansions every 6 months (or every 12 months and a smaller update/patch every 3 months) and free to play. Guild Wars was pretty successful on this model.