Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:09 pm
Expect it to always be free to play. That would be a hard thing to switch.
On a side note. I love the free to play model. It allows you to pay where you want and try for free. F2P games also by their nature offer more content and a continual growth of content. If this game wasn't free to play, there'd be a base level of armies you got when you paid for the game and then that was it (unless they released an expansion pack). With F2P, the armies will just keep growing and growing with no end in sight (as long as they are making their money).
Also, I really have no idea when the new armies are going to be released, it's just not something they have dropped hints about being on the foreseeable horizon (i.e. next patch), but I could be wrong.