Quote Originally Posted by Alcyon_Densetsu View Post
EVE Online may be one of the hardest sandbox MMORPG out there, and granted due to that it has low subs numbers, but it never stopped gaining more players ever since it was released. Still rising as we speak.
Eve has no competitors in it's genre. No real competition anyway that's why.

As to Sidious pay to play doesn't make a game more successful than free to play. Look at LOTRO, they had a completely stable player base but moved to free to play. Why did they do it? Because they had a dying game known as dungeons and dragons online. They made it free to play in a last ditch effort to save it. They ended up making more money than they ever did when it was pay to play. So they thought, "What would happen if we do the same with our successful LOTRO? Would it make even more?" According to the devs the answer was yes. People play FFXI a decade later but there's many "Failed" mmorpgs that are also trucking years later. People still play Everquest to this day (note I'm not saying it failed.)