My friend just brought up a good question. Why are all these MMO's coming out and go f2p within like, a year? And XI still has a fee. D:
The other ones come out,fail so miserably and everyone quits that if they dont go f2p they'll have 0 players. XI has alot of people still paying alot of money to play it. Star wars for example has so little players even after going f2p,that it might be shutting down forever soon.
Why go f2p when you have alot of people willing to pay. The benefits of having a long established playerbase. Same with WoW.