I played SWTOR since beta breh. It was a promising game but fell short, they lost an insane amount of subscriptions and went F2P. It always amazes me how a developer will not listen to it's fan base and attempt to change/fix their game. I've seen it time and time again throughout my MMO experiences. The players know what is wrong with the game.
GW2 is fukking garbage. Their main selling point, the breaking of the trinity actually worked completely opposite. Instead of being happy that the standard tank/healer/dps roles were gone, I actually missed it. There was nothing more I wanted to do than to just be a dedicated healer. I'd love to see how many ACTIVE accounts GW2 has compared to total purchases. My guess is there aren't many active accounts left.
yeah, I mean, essentially, if you really actually want to play EVE, you're obviously going to pay for the sub. It would be pointless to be serious about playing and not pay the sub. The free to play part is more about enticing new players. I think EVE has been most successful at building a community. WoW had a community for a long time, until they introduced cross-server queuing for battlegrounds and PvE dungeons in an attempt to solve queue wait time problems. .which is a tribute to their ability to produce a well polished game in terms of their ability to maintain a high number of subscriptions despite not having a close knit community.
That's even more interesting considering they are maintaining 500k. Would you say the EVE community is a big part of what keeps it going? The relationships and interactions amongst it's players?
