Quote Originally Posted by zenga View Post
Until the point where a decent game decides to not jump on the band wagon of ftp and gets in all the players that are tired of ftp. The reason why I believe that ftp is not 'the future' is because many players are going to burn way too much cash on it, ending up in bad family situations and what not. And a new demand will rise to have a game where you just pay a sub and thats it.
I doubt disposable income will really ever become a factor in these types of games. Time and again consumers have shown that they have the cash to throw around. The only real question is if the game is worth throwing more money at. Hence the rise of micro transactions and collector's editions: as consumers, we KNOW what games we want to play and what games we don't. Its all just a matter of figuring out how to milk us.

Of course, that's a moderately poor business model as invariably companies will start producing core games that have crap for content thinking they can milk the micro-transactions. But I digress.

I don't think subscription MMOs will ever really make a comeback. There's not much room for more, and I think as a society we're pushing past the second life status people held themselves to back during the early generation MMOs.