World of Warcraft free-to-play not moving past level 20 Blizzard has no plans to update the free-to-play cap with further expansions

Mike Williams Reviews Editor, USgamer Thursday 23rd August 2012 Share this article Share

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Blizzard Entertainment has told CVG that it will not be raising the free-to-play cap of level 20 for World of Warcraft. The game has seen a decline in subscribers down to around 9 million currently. Despite this, lead game producer John Lagrave said that the free-to-play is staying where it currently is.

"We looked at whether Level 20 would give you a good sense of what our game is, and we think it does. We've definitely slid some of the pay-for features into the first 20 Levels," said Lagrave when asked about raising the free-to-play cap.

"But there's also a lot of things in the game that are special that we want to reserve for our paying customers."

The company is releasing its new Mists of Pandaria expansion on September 15, 2012.