Tagged: Activision Blizzard

Nightly Open Thread

Nightly Open Thread

Blizzard…a twenty-year legacy of awesome, or a two-decade legacy of fancy window dressing on unoriginal ideas?

Free-to-Play: the way of the future for MMOs?

Free-to-Play: the way of the future for MMOs?

Last month, Turbine announced that their MMORPG, Lord of the Rings Online, was switching from a paid subscription payment model to a microtransaction-based free-to-play model instead. The result? According to Kate Paiz, LotRO’s executive...