If a developer is too slow to fix an feat or inconsistent with content updates
, odds are players may jump ship and shift to a new game.
There aren't any major print magazines focuses on free MMORPGs. Pay to play games like 'Dark Age of Camelot' and 'Star Wars Galaxies' are unable to fight amongst the likes of World of Warcraft. Click to readmore
Although the number of players on free MMORPG are much more as compared to those on paid MMORPG, free MMORPG are still thought to be inferior as compared to their paid counterparts.
It may not be fair to compare games such as World of Warcraft over free-to-play games such as Fiesta, but it would be silly to claim that new free MMORPG genre are small. It has recently reinstated its revenue model to become a free to play MMORPG by making money off their cash shop. With big publishers like Outspark, Netgame, AeriaGames and Gpotato releasing new games about each month, the economical is poised to keep growing.
The free MMORPG boom is escalating each and every year. Games also have to create a form of staying power in the game or their players may quit to play one of the many cost free MMORPGs out there.
Popular games such as Fiesta and Project Powder each have over 12 to 15 million characters created worldwide. On the other hand, older paid MMORPG such as World of Warcraft, have about 10 million users. It seems that the only way for them to compete is to join the Free to play MMORPG wagon.
The huge amount of free to play MMORPGs on the market today are also pressuring pay to play (P2P) games to either offer more content to their players or make to make the game free. There are also an increasing number of 'pay-to-play' MMORPGs out there today that are losing their players by the day. Source: The Trend of New Free Online MMORPG