Lifetime Subscription

[Maaya_Sicarioi]

Does WoW, one of the most successfull MMOs nowadays, has a lifetime subscription option? No .... guess why

[HiirNoivl]

Does WoW, one of the most successfull MMOs nowadays, has a lifetime subscription option? No .... guess why

Um... why?

[moriandrio]

Um... why?

Cause it would be a massive loss for blizzard. Lifetime subs are a good idea at release if company needs money fast like they did when STO came out. But if you check FFXIV's history and how almost every AAA MMO is going to F2P after a certain time i don't think there would be that much ppl paying for a lifetime at release anymore.

I doubt we gonna see alot of lifetime subs in the future anyway.

[HiirNoivl]

Cause it would be a massive loss for blizzard..

Again why?

I think the real reason its not offered is because there's simply no market for it. :P

I seriously doubt that offering lifetime subs contributes to a game going F2P. It sounds like a "snowball" argument. That anything that SE does that's outside conventional wisdom will go on to lead to the game's ultimate failure.

[Abriael]

Cause it would be a massive loss for blizzard. Lifetime subs are a good idea at release if company needs money fast like they did when STO came out. But if you check FFXIV's history and how almost every AAA MMO is going to F2P after a certain time i don't think there would be that much ppl paying for a lifetime at release anymore.

I doubt we gonna see alot of lifetime subs in the future anyway.

Lifetime subs continue to be offered and will continue to be offered even when MMORPGs go "free to play", simply because they don't go "free to play".

They go Hybrid, that implies a large difference with the free to play model. All MMORPGs that go hybrid still involve a complimentary subscription that is normally quite desirable, and lifetime subs include that.

[Maaya_Sicarioi]

simply because of maths if this mmo success just as wow/ffxi did and prevails as many years as wow/ffxi, the amount of money earnt will be higher. 250€ lifetime = +/- 2 years of subscription vs 9/10 years of ffxi/wow.... I have high hopes on FFXIV to sucess as its predecesors. It implies much more money in long terms