Funcom Replies to Open Beta & Price Points for The Secret World
Yesterday we reported on a video where CEO Miguel Caron of Funcom Canada told the Montreal Gazette that Funcom would be trying to launch the The Secret World open beta before Christmas. Today Funcom has responded to it stating:
Open beta will not be initiated before Christmas, but will be a part of our strategy next year prior to our April 2012 launch.
Also mentioned in the video was that TSW would have a subscription fee somewhere between $15 and $17 and a response to that was given as well.
Funcom has not yet made any official announcements regarding the business model or price points for The Secret World. This is still being discussed and evaluated internally, and we will make an official announcement when this has been finalized.
So for those of you hoping for a Christmas open beta, you’re out of luck, and I guess the free-to-play model lives for another day.
Why don’t they copy the guild wars model this time? Buy the game and play4free maybe with an additional (balanced) item shop. Thats my favorite pricing model…:)
BECAUSE GUILD WARS IS NOT AN MMO YOU IDIOT!!! Guild wars is a piece of crap RPG, it is like a broken mmo for people who fail at MMO. THE ONLY part that is online is a city to form a group. That is called LOBY. so it is basically a virtual chat room. NOT AN MMORPG. you GD noob.
#1 Calm down/grow up – just as you like
#2 Don’t know where I stated that I believe GW 1 is the same kind of game. Nevertheless GW 2 will be a true MMO which I had in mind: http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/game-faq/