"You know, free-to-play is just another model, and just like every other model in the industry, it will hold its special little place for a while but then there will be consequences. Just like every model that seems interesting works out in the short term. "I don't think that model is going to work out all that well for anybody," he continued, "not in the long term. He doesn't see it as an economically viable strategy. Jacobs felt that many developers and publishers are chasing the free-to-play market in the hope that a small percentage of players will actually lay down money on micro-payment items.
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Right now you've got everybody chasing it, going 'Isn't this great? Free to play, we're going to make so much money'". "The whole free-to-play thing isn't going away tomorrow," Jacobs stressed, "but let's just see what happens in three to five years - and I'm betting closer to three - where free-to-play will become just another model. Jacobs told me as part of an interview you can read here soon, that the free-to-play market is headed toward an apocalypse. The game will be subscription based and the client will be distributed via torrent, skirting around the need for a mass publisher. Of its $2,000,000 goal with 20 days spare. Mythic co-founder Jacobs is currently raising funds for his spiritual successor to Dark Age of Camelot, entitled Camelot Unchained over on Kickstarter. He predicted to VG247 that developers will close and publishers stand to lose a lot of money. Camelot Unchained creator and long-time MMO veteran Mark Jacobs has warned of an impending free-to-play "apocalypse" in three to five years time, thanks to a rush towards unsustainable free-to-play models.