Rift is going free-to-play on June 12th. To me this was never a question of if Rift would go F2P, but when. Rift’s numbers are declining as all games do over time. To be honest, they made it quite a long time for never quite being a true blockbuster success; much longer than most. EQ [...]
Posts Tagged ‘F2P’
Conglomoblog: Minecraft, SWTOR, Job Hunting
Life has been crazy lately. I spend more time working on campus to finish up the last of my finals (graduating in a week!) in one day than I do sleeping and playing games. I apologize for the lack of updates around here, but it will improve in just a matter of days. After that, [...]
Another Developer with MMO Price Myopia
Scott Hartsman, former Executive Producer at Trion Worlds, expounded today in a Forbes article on where he believes the MMO industry is going. Yeah, it’s another one of those interview — you know, the kind where someone who should know what he or she is talking about, but instead appears to be appealing to some [...]
Allods Online: Going… Subscription!
So, apparently Allods Online is releasing a Russian subscription only server. No cash shop, no pay to win, no ridiculous design choices to force you into paying inordinate amounts of money for basic features — just the game and a nice subscription. You may remember that Allods was a game I spoke quite highly about [...]



