F2P MMOs earn about 83% more money per player than P2P

[Rya.Reisender]

"Free Game"

On November 28 and 29, 2005, Shanda abruptly announced that its multiplayer online role-playing games Magical Land and The World of Legend will forever be free of charge.

Following Shanda's example, other Chinese on-line game operators also declared that their games will be free.

In reality, once Shanda games became "free," average customer spending increased from 30 Chinese yuan per quarter to 55 Chinese yuan per quarter. Shanda merely changed the way it charges for fees in its games[4].

Shanda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just posting this because there was often the discussion whether people pay for monthly for F2P than for P2P or not. Here are some actual numbers. :-)

[fuko]

for example WOW can be a bigger hit if it goes fully F2P

[MinistryOvWar]

so a company which said that their 2 crap games will be "free" represents the whole mmo market??? ...think.

there were tons of numbers about when DDO and Lotro went f2p.. huge increase in registered users and profits(200%)

[fuko]

which company Ministry Z8Games? :P