Black Raven Dragoons

I saw this coming after seeing that Defiance was a free to play game from Trion Worlds. Rift is gong free to play june 12. For those of us that have the game already, we get at least some meager perks but not much. They gotta earn their money somehow and the in game store is it! Rift was fun for a short while but thats because the game didn't feel social to me. Things may have changed since last I played it(a dang long time ago) but I might take a peek in the coming months just to see.

Seems like free-to-play becomes a graveyard for games that didn't initially start out as such. That's not to say it's a bad model, though, since several F2P games that have figured out how to monetize the genre are doing well (League of Legends comes to mind).

It'll be interesting to see what happens. The fundamental problem with MMOs is that players have (generally) finite time and it doesn't help that the market is awfully saturated right now. That said, F2P versus a subscription seems to be the best model for suckering encouraging new players to sign up.