Free to play origins, this news is to surprised me, as now there are so many players playing the world of warcraft, the number of player now comes more than ten million, then many peple play this game, buy CDK and Gamecard for his account, cost much, some player even don't drink but save the money for their wow account. And today's news let us know that at the beginning, world of warcraft was slated to be free-to-play.

Rob Pardo, who is the vice president of game design for Blizzard, revealed a very interesting factoid at this year's Paris Game Developer Conference. It seems that the hit MMORPG World of Warcraft which has garnered more than ten million subscribers was originally designed around a free-to-play business model complete with advertisements.Pardo stated that "we [Blizzard] wanted to make it [World of Warcraft] free and advertising supported." However, after going over the numbers, they saw that it just wouldn't support the company, "We didn't want to charge a subscription, but as we researched market conditions, we realized that wouldn't support us."

Now the amount of support from the gaming community the game has gotten, could Blizzard have gotten more money by making it free to play while offering players in-game items for cash and charging advertisers for a certain amount of views? Maybe. If can free-to-pay, that is really good news for the players, then the player's money can only be saved to buy the gold for wow, our site still offers many kinds of golds, buy cheap wow gold from us now.