Gamers should want all MMOs to be free-to-play, according the development director of the EverQuest franchise.

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“ I think that free-to-play is the way that gamers should want their MMOs.

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David Georgeson spoke out to IGN in defense of the controversial model, sharing his view that F2P encourages developers to really work their hardest to make sure the end product is entertaining."There’s nothing wrong with the subscription model. I have personal opinions, which I’ll go ahead and share because I’m just that cocksure of myself," Georgeson revealed. "I think that free-to-play is the way that gamers should want their MMOs to be, and the reason I think that is that if we don’t do a really good job and we don’t entertain the player, we don’t make a dime."So if you buy a turkey, you’ve just wasted your money. With free-to-play you get to go in, take a look at it and find out. It’s entirely our responsibility to make sure you’re entertained. That’s the way things should be in my opinion with free-to-play."In case you missed it yesterday, we also got a chance to talk to Georgeson about whether SOE is planning to continue supporting EverQuest and EverQuest II once Next launches, and he expressed a serious interest in using Sony's recently-announced VR project with EverQuest Next on PS4.EverQuest Next, with its various classes and races , is expected to launch on PC and PS4 at some stage in the future. Before it does, however, we'll see EverQuest Next: Landmark, a Minecraft-esque experience that acts as a precursor to the full-fledged MMO, which entered beta last week

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