http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/10/26/champions-online-to-become-free-to-play-in-2011/

They may gain more players this way.

Good thing I didn't buy the lifetime subscription

Originally posted by Hathi

Good thing I didn't buy the lifetime subscription

And whys that? they get the exact same thing they payed for, nothing changes for them just like in Lotro.

lol who didn't see this comming :P and it will go free to play about the time DCUO launches. 

bew bew bew and another one bites the dust.

Originally posted by rmason

bew bew bew and another one bites the dust.

Your confusing FTP with not existing.

And yes, just because you dont like FTP doesnt magicallu change it at all.

Originally posted by GrayGhost79

lol who didn't see this comming :P and it will go free to play about the time DCUO launches. 

Well I think that was the point trying to keep people playing and staying away from the competition.

Personally,  I like this new trend of sending sub-par games into the f2p market.  I could actually see myself playing this one while waiting for some other AAA releases.

Seems like a good move, they need to breath some new life into this game and if DDO and LoTRO are any examples, this is a sure fire way to get people to try/return to an underperforming game.

Good. Now it might attract more players and it gives options to people waiting for some major releases.

Originally posted by bartillo

http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/10/26/champions-online-to-become-free-to-play-in-2011/

 I guess at the end of the day this is a good move for them but this is a terrible game (IMO) so I personally won't be paying it any more attention than I do when they are charging a sub fee, now maybe when STO goes free to play I may be willing to take a look under that hood but this game does not bring me back to my comic book days in any way shape or form so this one they can keep.

Not convinced this will do much for the population, the games ability to retain players is still highly suspect...brillilant avatar and dreadful gameworld are not a good combination even for free. Atari and Cryptic will need to comit to some serious development still to keep it appealing.

Originally posted by Woopin

Originally posted by GrayGhost79

lol who didn't see this comming :P and it will go free to play about the time DCUO launches. 

Well I think that was the point trying to keep people playing and staying away from the competition.

I know, but when I said on these forums that CO would go free to play when DCUO starts to hit the scene I basically got a lot of "nuh uh, SOE sucks and CO is fine and won't be going free to play ever" lol. Was just my little I told you so post. 

It's a good idea.  More kids will try it as a super-hero free-realms type of game.  It was never worth a life-time or monthly subscription as much of a non-massively-multiplayer simplistic lobby-system, pve, single-player-esque game that it turned out to be.

F2P or B2P which ever you prefer... Guild Wars 2 will reign surpreme. Unlike these games GW2 is built with this model in mind .. they games were not but felt they needed a change in strategy for one reason or another. GW2 is ahead in this regards and knows how to do it right.

Just because I'm a fanboi doesn't make it any less true. ^^

Oh and Champions Online is decent enough that if it was F2P maybe I'd play it till GW2... but wasn't about to pay for a subscribtion.

All games as heavily instanced as Champions Online is should be F2P right out of the box.   Especially when they're already charging micropayments along with subscription price!  I look forward to it and hope this turns out to be a good move for Cryptic Studios.  I don't hate the game, but I never really felt it was particularly worthy of subscription.

Originally posted by natuxatu

F2P or B2P which ever you prefer... Guild Wars 2 will reign surpreme. Unlike these games GW2 is built with this model in mind .. they games were not but felt they needed a change in strategy for one reason or another. GW2 is ahead in this regards and knows how to do it right.

Just because I'm a fanboi doesn't make it any less true. ^^

Oh and Champions Online is decent enough that if it was F2P maybe I'd play it till GW2... but wasn't about to pay for a subscribtion.

 GW2 and your love for it has little to nothing to do with this topic, this is a super hero game and GW2 is not, your logic makes sense if and only if every single mmorpg player played them just to play an mmorpg but that is not the case.  I'm going to try GW2 but I won't play it any more than I did GW1, I just know they make good quality games and I tend to buy them no matter what.  But for those who want to play a super hero game is who Cryptic is making the mmove for they are trying to get f2p ready to launch around the same time as DCUO (which is not going to help much if at all).

this will definitely be a good f2p title i would never pay for it but i would enjoy playing for free

A last ditch effort from a failed game. Anyone who wants to argue with this look at it this way, City of Heroes was their first game, it has been around since mid 2004, BEFORE World of Warcraft, it had a MAXIMUM of 200k members at one time, yet its still pay to play. Champions Online has been out for 1 year and 1 month and it is going free to pay! That is a failing game.