Free-to-play?

[Enla]

Why people are so afraid of the word "Free-To-Play"...? If a good game goes free to play, it will still be a good game. And I know some FtP that are great and have many updates. I'm more inclined of spending real money on cash shop or cosmetics when the game is free to play. And I'm not the only one. Afraid of the lack of update with new content...? Well it could hardly be worst than what we have now with a sub...

SWTOR is pretty much a prime example of why going F2P is a bad idea and also a prime example of just how lacking in content a game can be when they rely on other methods to get their money. They haven't offered Operations in a LONG time and even their single player content is lacking. That game also has probably the ultimate variety when it comes to items to spend your money on and yet it's not enough to produce results as EA continuously lets the quality flounder. Also people keep saying we have a dirth of content in this game and yet comparatively to most titles I've been a part of we're actually going quite well with consistent quality and regular updates. Coming from Lotro and SWTOR it's like night and day. Especially the former as most of that content was so hit and miss after the Rohan expansion that they never decided on a clear direction for it to take. One patch it's all single player instances, the next it's required multiplayer to appease those they left behind, and back and forth until it drove you absolutely mental. Yet even then the content was spaced out by months or YEARS and fed to you in such a slow drip that it solidified my current burning hatred of WB. The game only /just/ got to Mordor this year. THIS YEAR.

Also there's one other reason this game will never /ever/ go free to play, and that's because it's currently the source of much of SE's current funding. Yoshi-P had to beg to access the money needed to move the servers and perform certain upgrades because most of it just goes straight back into SE's coffers to help them create other games like FFXV.