Well the weren’t so “prime” after all and that led to Lehman Brothers, AIG, and Morgan Stanley going into the toilet, (and onto the taxpayers back) and ushering in the that other “new normal”, the Too Big to Fail financial institution. So what then are these TBTF geniuses up to...
Of course, the reality might be that Blizzard just does the math and figures that they could make more money as F2P with MTX, but I don't see that being the case. And the perception issue is not solely limited to WoW, when SWTOR switched to F2P many on the intern...