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It was found that most unhappy of Warcraft players to change the mode

News July 10, against the network "World of Warcraft" may turn to the characteristics of props for the free charge mode of Tencent Technology yesterday launched a survey of Internet users, nearly 6 friends into voting against the motion, 37% of users voted in favor. In addition, the current charges of Warcraft question whether it is justified rather contradictory views of Internet users.

July 9, the United States Blizzard "World of Warcraft," the chief designer Tom Chilton (Tom Chilton), said in an interview with the next "World of Warcraft" may turn to a free model, but at the same time will introduce micro-transactions (micro -transaction) to obtain the revenue system - which is actually based on a popular current charging mode props.

At press before, Tencent investigations into science and technology have a total of 12,364 polling places users. Data show that support for the free shift model of Warcraft users accounted for 58.7% (7258 votes total), non-supporters, 37% (4588 votes total), while 4% of users do so. This shows that the majority of Internet users free of charge for the model of Warcraft does not look good.

Tencent many friends in the commentary pointed out that the "World of Warcraft" to prop charges will be "self-future" because this model only have a network to attract new players, but the old faithful cause a huge loss of players. Previously, according to media reports, the current of Warcraft player has reached five million, many of whom are loyal players NINETOWNS times.

The survey also showed that users for the present "World of Warcraft," there is a huge price differences: 41% of users (of 5086 votes) said that the current charges are reasonable, the other 42.7% of users (5286 votes total) is that the fees are unreasonable. The remaining 16% of users said, "Oh said." (Text / Jingdong)