Quote Originally Posted by Keyblade View Post
Unfortunately your wrong in saying the WOW model doesnt work.
Wow still has over 9 million subs and its still going strong. Where as FFXIV had 1.2 mill purchase and only just abit over 500k still playing.
Every mmorpg that tried to imitate WoW success crashed and burned. SWOTOR? LOTRO? Terra? Aion? Do I have to go on? Wow-model is proved to not last in the long run, after an initial sale-boom, the subscriptions drop significantly and the developers are forced to go F2P.

Sure, WoW still goes strong (though it starting to suffer its age), but it is pretty much the exception, no to mention how many years ago it launched.