For me it was FFXIV and I'm glad I decided to try it, the game is lovely and will last me quite a while. I don't think I'll ever stick to a single game for years anymore, MMO hopping is more fun in my opinion. WoW used to have my sub almost permanently, but "times change" and so did the game. Now it's a hybrid between a lobby game and a facebook game and lobby games keep me interested for a minimal amount of time after I explored the (tiny) world.So where do you think these 3 million gamers are going? Other MMOs, MOBAs, console games, or somewhere else?
FF14 seems to be the only MMO increasing in popularity lately (at least on this board). With their expansion coming up soon and the similarity in gameplay with WoW, odds are FF14 is getting the bulk of ex-WoW players.
That's not really F2P, it's F2P for those with already established characters/accountsI see people mention they would play games like Wildstar if it was F2P. Well WoW is F2P, so I guess WoW is not worth it to play even when F2P?
WOW is F2P because anyone with a max level char can make the ~25K a month needed to buy a token, just from the garrison alone. It is very minimal time/effort. And you don't have to pay $$ for extra bag slots or character slots, etc like the other F2P games.
True, but it doesn't take but a week to hit 100, and start the garrison process? Pay for 1 month, and you could get it all setup just fine to make 25k a month, I'd imagine?That's not really F2P, it's F2P for those with already established characters/accounts
Well, pay for one month, and level up toons. Use the gold to buy first token, in 2nd month, get Garrison's pretty much setup, and now it's free forever!Not for someone starting from scratch or whatever.
honestly once you do your garrison though the money just piles up, i started back up from scratch in WoD at first it was a struggle but once i got my garrison up (not even using the money making team) you dont spend much money on things, all i did was run firelands/BWD/ToT that got me about 4k each week, once you get over the 5k hump the garrison isnt bad.If you were a new player, you wouldn't be making 25k per month within one month. I know this, as I hadn't played since WOTLK, recently came back and played pretty casually up through WOD. I now have 2x level 100s, and I have no money. Your first month is leveling, then SPENDING money to build your garrison. You end up broke soon after 100, not rich.
The F2P passive income requires having a full set of 25 epic followers geared up to at least ilvl660. You can't do this in one month from scratch.Well, pay for one month, and level up toons. Use the gold to buy first token, in 2nd month, get Garrison's pretty much setup, and now it's free forever!
Well having all high level purples helps but you can still make ass loads of money even with just green or blue followers. The main key is once you are at 100 or before get the inn. Do the quests get it maxed to level 3 rank asap. Once inn is rank three grab treasure hunter follower every week until you have 4-5 of them at least. Do the harrison jones quests for a week to unlock him. Once you unlock harrison jones focus on getting HIM up to purple quality and as high Ilevel as you can ignoring other followers if necessary. Harrison jones is a treasure hunter and a mentor meaning anybody with him counts as his ilevel and I believe quality. So if you get him to max you can do at least one high level follower mission even with total scrubs as other followers.I'll give ya that, the followers takes some time. That's my bad for bad info, or incomplete. However, I recently came back a month ago? not that long. Have 2x100s, and 2x95s. Went from 15k-40k in gold, mainly from quest rewards, and vendoring, and that was also with spending 10-15k or something like that on new heirlooms. If you just level up a couple toons in that first month, I fully believe it can be free from that point on.
Yup exactly the same. This is part of why it is not something you can resell and indeed can only buy it from the special token auction interface. What this means is that for each person using their alt garrison farming gold to buy tokens there is someone who has plunked down cold hard cash that they can use to earn some gold. It sort of begs the question what exactly are they using this gold for in the first place? Black Market Auction House stuff?Does WoW's token system work like Wildstar's CREDD where someone has to pay real life cash for the token/CREDD and then sell it inside the game for game currency?