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Blizzard Free-to-Play Game Rumor Resurfaces – Tom’s Hardware Guide

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Blizzard Free-to-Play Game Rumor Resurfaces
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Riding on eight or more years of World of Warcraft's subscription-based success, Blizzard will reportedly expand its business opportunities by continuing to provide subscriptions while also addressing gamers who would rather pay for in-game content and …
Rumor: The World of Warcraft maker's next game will be free-to-playGames.com News (blog)
New Blizzard game 'to be free-to-play'Develop (blog)
Rebuttal: Widescreen Warrior's Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Start or Keep …Widescreen Warrior.com
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Rumor: The World of Warcraft maker’s next game will be free-to-play – Games.com News (blog)

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Rumor: The World of Warcraft maker's next game will be free-to-play
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by Joe Osborne, Posted Feb 23rd 2012 6:30PM Blizzard made its millions if not billions through charging Azerothian adventurers a month to play World of Warcraft (WoW). Now, it's rumored that the monolithic developer might buck the dying trend in …
New Blizzard game 'to be free-to-play'Develop (blog)
Rebuttal: Widescreen Warrior's Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Start or Keep …Widescreen Warrior.com
Blizzard rumored to be making a free-to-play MMOGameDynamo
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Free-to-Play Everquest Highlights the Slow Death of Subscription MMOs – 1UP.com

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Free-to-Play Everquest Highlights the Slow Death of Subscription MMOs
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It's hard to imagine World of Warcraft finding success without SOE's game preceding it. The game's transition marks the end of an era — it's the death knell for MMOs as we've known them. Everquest's relatively small player base means the shift to …
Veteran MMO 'EverQuest' adds free-to-play tierYahoo! Philippines News
Classic online game EverQuest celebrates 13th birthday with switch to free to …VentureBeat
'EverQuest' Officially Going Free-To-PlayOlogy
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Star Trek Online switches to free-to-play model – Digitaltrends.com

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Star Trek Online switches to free-to-play model
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While the popular World of Warcraft continues to bleed paying customers, more MMORPG titles are moving to the free-to-play model in order to attract more users and generate revenue through micro-transactions. Originally debuting during March 2010, …
Star Trek Online goes free to playExaminer.com
Star Trek Online Going Free-To-PlayWebProNews
Star Trek Online DX11 Performance ReviewHard OCP
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Star Trek Online Going Free-To-Play – WebProNews

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Star Trek Online Going Free-To-Play
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After a bumpy start like all MMOs that aren't World of Warcraft or The Old Republic, sitting in the captain's chair is now free of charge. Perfect World Entertainment and the original developer Cryptic Studios announced today that the Star Trek Online …
Star Trek Online goes free to playExaminer.com
Star Trek Online DX11 Performance ReviewHard OCP
Star Trek Online Now Free to PlayPC Magazine

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Market Data Shows Americans Prefer Free-To-Play MMOS Over Pay-To-Play MMOs – Cinema Blend

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Market Data Shows Americans Prefer Free-To-Play MMOS Over Pay-To-Play MMOs
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While the MMO crowd has mostly been bombarded with medieval fantasy MMOs all trying to cash in on Blizzard's World of Warcraft success, the reality is that many American gamers actually prefer free-to-play science-fiction MMOs over any other …
Report: Sci-fi MMOs dominated by free-to-play playersVentureBeat

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Blizzard: WoW Won’t Be Going Free-To-Play – Escapist Magazine

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Blizzard: WoW Won't Be Going Free-To-Play
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According to Blizzard president Mike Morhaime, World of Warcraft won't be quite as quick to jump on the bandwagon. "I think that there's an underlying, a fundamental, assumption right now that the less you charge, the more money you make … which …
Blizzard: F2P not the best model for WOWEurogamer.net
Blizzard's Morhaime: F2P not right for WoWJoystiq
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Blizzard investigating mobile and free-to-play – GamesIndustry.biz (registration)

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Blizzard investigating mobile and free-to-play
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Blizzard chief operating officer Paul Sams has revealed that the World Of Warcraft developer has teams already working on mobile and tablet, and the company would consider making its titles free-to-play. "We do have a group within the organization …
Blizzard Looking into Mobile Gaming and Free-To-Play Business ModelIBTimes

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Golden Joysticks 2011: Free-to-play winner is… – Computerandvideogames.com

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Golden Joysticks 2011: Free-to-play winner is…
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Inspired by the fan-favourite Defence of the Ancients map for Warcraft III, the online RTS has evolved into a real monster of PC gaming – and it'll cost you absolutely nothing to play. Runners up places in the F2P category went to World of Tanks and …
Golden Joystick Award Results in FullGod is a Geek
Portal 2 Beats Black Ops in Gamer Awards CeremonySpong
Portal 2 is Alienware Ultimate Game of the YearGameFocus
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Mythic Founder Thinks Most Free-to-Play MMOs Are “Crap” – Escapist Magazine

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Mythic Founder Thinks Most Free-to-Play MMOs Are "Crap"
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From Age of Empires Online to DC Universe Online to the mighty World of Warcraft, every MMO seems to be embracing a free-to-play model. At least one MMO veteran is unwilling to give up the idea of subscription fees, however. Mark Jacobs, former CEO of …

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