From Guild Wars site:
The holidays are fast approaching, so we’ll help you celebrate a little early! Starting today, when you buy any Guild Wars campaign from the In-Game Store or the NCsoft store, you’ll receive Eye of the North for FREE! This special holiday offer ends January 5, 2010
its off news, but i dont know if you have heard the bad news. The end of the year look pretty bad for many f2p online portal. Gametribe portal will close the 31/12, Aeria close french and german server of Shin Megami Tensei, key2play close YS online the 21/12 and look to be off communication since many days, GOA will close Warrior Epic et Kart’n Crazy european servers, and will not publish Mytheon in Europe.
source :
http://forum.gametribe.com/showthread.php?t=20183
(in french sorry) :
http://www.jeuxonline.info/actualite/25034/gametribe-met-clef-porte-key2play-arrete-toute-communication
http://www.jeuxonline.info/actualite/25046/fermeture-serveurs-europeens-warrior-epic-kart-crazy
This needs further investigation…
Well, probably without WoW and Korea we wouldn’t have had all this free mmo, i guess when the competition is so high and large, free mmo cannibalize each other, plus not all have the required quality (let’s face it) to keep you playing them. The good FreeMMO on the other hand are all there and in good shape, oh and don’t forget the bad economy situation in which many countries have fallen.