Star Wars: The Old Republic finally heading fully free-to-play
By Tim Colwill on August 1, 2012 at 2:41 pm
It finally happened: Star Wars: The Old Republic is going free-to-play, starting November. Free-to-play players will have unrestricted access to levels 1-50 and the full storylines of each class, but will be restricted in other ways.
Some species will be unavailable for play, and they will be limited in the amount of warzones, flashpoints and space missions they can undertake. Travel is also limited for F2P players, and they are disbarred completely from operations. Naturally, people can continue to subscribe, which will remove all limitations and give them rewards of “Cartel Coins” which can be spent on various cosmetic goods.
The news comes off the back of EA releasing their latest financials, in which John Riccitiello said sales of SW:TOR were “disappointing”, and that subscriptions had dropped below one million.
Source: SWTOR (thanks to Simon for the tip)
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Huzzah! I hope it has some of the amazing sucess LotRO had. Wish it launched like this, but I suppose box sales are too tempting.
For those yet to try it, it’s a fantastic game that actually delivers on the RPG part of MMORPG.
Yet everything else is exactly the same as every other MMORPG, hence why it is going F2P
Hah, doesn’t surprise me really. I didn’t even stick around for my 3 month sub to finish. Do previous owners/subscribers get a Premium status or anything? or just a bunch of coins.
Should have made KOTOR3 instead. :P
So essentially was it or was it not a failure? Despite all the fanfare from the sounds of it it’s turned out just like any other MMO. I might give it a go though, limited access to certain things per week might be good in keeping the game fresh before you run out of content like what I hear happens endgame lol.
The only things you really miss out on is some species (anyone know which ones?), those travel things (anyone have more info on what that means) and you can’t do Operations outright (what are operations?).
Probably still wont play it.
Exe3, you get the main draw which is the class story. All of them are pretty good, some are absolutely awesome. I don’t think anyone knows yet what the travel restrictions are. My guess is it’s something along the lines of no fleet pass, or you can’t board friend’s space ships.
Species is a bit of a wild card. Hard to tell if they will cut off species that are currently available, or if they intend to restrict access to the up coming Cathar species.
Operations are raids, so you should still be able to do the odd space dungeon– sorry Flashpoint– with no problems.
Yeah, KOTOR 3 would’ve been much, much better. Just imagine the graphics, and maybe some sort of co-op? Wow, that would’ve been awesome.
Still enjoyed SWTOR for the 2 weeks that I played it on release.
vencha88, I could’ve sworn that I saw you on one of the servers under the name ‘vencha’…
My legacy is Ven’cha, so you probably did. My main, at least when you were playing at release, was a big green Jedi named Hul’kh.
Felt like Single-player with other NPC’s running around, except for PVP – but that got old quickly..
Not the best time to go F2P since most of the big AAA games will be coming out around then.
I think the only major release in the MMO market right now is Guild Wars 2, which itself is F2P. Even still, I’d say it’s much more of a long term goal, rather than a short term one which would be stopped by a major release.
I think I might actually give this a whirl! :)
Might hop back on and do a bit of PvP then, the operations were fairly uninteresting anyway.