Any F2P game that’s worth anything will allow you to purchase the premium stuff with cash or in-game currency that you can earn without paying — that’s basic F2P design 101. In that respect, yes, WoT and MWO are ‘good’ F2P games.

I’m just not keen on anything that lets you shortcut your way to an in-game advantage by breaking out the wallet. As far as I’m concerned, microtransactions — and let’s not kid ourselves, a lot of this stuff stopped being ‘micro’ long ago; The $50+ clan ‘mech packs for MWO make me cross-eyed with rage — should only buy appearance, fluff, and convenience. All actual gameplay-oriented stuff should be in-game only.

That being said, I’m eagerly awaiting SOE’s promised shift of the original Planetside to F2P, supposedly mid-April (this month!). It’s down to only one server and nobody plays it anymore because it’s not worth a subscription at this point, but hopefully not costing a penny will bring some of the old veterans back. There’s still no experience like it, not even Planetside 2 — which was really just Battlefield 3.5 with a sci-fi skin applied to it.

I thirst for that sci-fi combined-arms gameplay with deep and rich certification trees for getting equipment.