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Gamers Spending More Time and Money on Free-to-Play MMOs

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In 2011, U.S. gamers have spent an estimated $1.2 billion on F2P games, which have taken up to 47 percent of all MMO expenditures. It has grown 24 percent in the last year, now seriously contending with pay-to-play MMOs like World of Warcraft for players' attention. The report says gamers spend about 26 million hours every day playing MMOs in the U.S.
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