That’s the word, according to Massively, from Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, whom I occasionally refer to as “The Doctors”. The founders and chief officers of BioWare were recently talking to Joystiq about their views on the subscription model versus the free-to-play model in the online gaming realm.

But the interesting pull-quote came at the end of the interview:

Before moving off the subject, Muzyka managed to sneak in a bit of a tease regarding BioWare’s future work in the free-to-play space. “You can re-imagine things and kinda envision them in different ways,” he said of the business model’s advantages. “We have some other stuff we haven’t announced yet coming from our play-for-free team that I’m really excited about. It’s gonna bring back some IP that people have a lot of fond memories around.”

Joystiq’s editors are evidently hoping for something — anything — to do with Jade Empire. Others, I have noticed, have rather different suspicions.