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Free-To-Play Switch Going Well For D&D Online

Posted by Soulskill on from the price-is-right dept.

babboo65 writes "Dungeons and Dragons Online is enjoying a second life in terms of player count and buzz, all thanks to its new business strategy: giving the game away. Turbine is making their MMO as accessible as possible, and that includes making players who don't pay anything as happy as possible. Subscriptions are up 40 percent. Ars explores how free can be very profitable."

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  1. Re:Looks like a brilliant move by somersault · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This sounds a lot to me like MapleStory, so it is already the copying stage. I assume that MapleStory has been moderately successful. I spent about as much on it over a couple of months as I would have spent buying a boxed PC game, as a kind of thankyou. And also to get a cool purple lightsabre and pink bunny.

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  2. WINE by metamatic · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So does this work on WINE on Linux or Mac, or is this Windoze only?

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