Datamining of the 6.1 patch on PRT revealed that a Veteran Account type may be introduced in future, and will share the same restrictions to F2Pers. No one knows when it will go live. But most people surmise that it should be a sign that WOW will go F2P? Do you think so?
WOW plans to launch Veteran Edition for f2p
Last week, Patch 6.1 PTR datamining revealed that something called “Veteran” mode has been datamined, and it aims to bring back more lapsed accounts. But this mode is more Start Edition than Veteran one, because of its restrictions.
Similarly with a Starter Edition account, heroes in Veteran accounts can only reach level 20 and collect a maximum of 10 world of warcraft gold. Besides, the social communication is also limited, such as modifying calendar events, shouting, and whispering to players not in the Veteran's friends list. The only difference for Veteran Edition is that your sub-level 20 characters will be able to join a guild if any of your other characters are still in that guild.
What’s more, Veteran mode will simply be the default state for accounts that don’t currently have an active subscription.
Will Blizzard make profits subscriptions to change?
Recently, an overwhelming part of players speculate that World of Warcraft will be turned into free to play from P2P, especially in China, for the sake of money from subscriptions to change.
As we've seen with other MMOGs, shifting to F2P would probably involve offering some form of subscription-like option. Unsurprisingly, the likely cost would be the same $15 per month as before. Supposing that 3.5 million accounts pay wow monthly fee, and it will represents a great deal of money even though it is a conservative calculation. Certainly, there will be a leakage, but it cannot lead to a mass exodus.
Maybe according to the above analysis, you will decide that WOW should be turned into F2P earlier. But for the launch of Warlords of Draenor, Blizzard seems to be rolling in money. Could they give up all benefits to make such decisions?
Thus, it should take a long time to turn WOW into F2P. So WOW items cheap and WOW gold EU instant and cheap still play great roles in Warlords of Draenor. Buy any what you need in WOW Draenor at safewow for further use now.
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