SW:TOR’s F2P restrictions eased following community feedback
By Tim Colwill on October 29, 2012 at 6:59 pm
As a lapsed SW:TOR player, the prospect of returning to the galaxy to finish my storyline without having to feel guilty every single day I’m not playing the game I pay for has me immensely intrigued. Despite that, the restrictions that BioWare slapped on F2P players were met with a pretty apathetic response from the game’s community. Accordingly, several changes have now been made.
“Based on community and internal feedback here and further deliberation, we will in short order make the following changes to the Free to Play restrictions,” writes Damion Schubert on the game’s official forum. “Free-to-Play players will now get a second quickslot bar, Free-to-Play players will now be able to do 5 Warzones per week instead of 3, and the Cartel Coin item lock (i.e. temporary bind) will be reduced to 3 days for Free-to-Play players, and 2 days for subscribers.”
“One of our golden rules is that the Free-to-Play experience should not cheapen the experience for paying subscribers,” said Schubert. “If it turns out that the Free-to-Play conversion results in a degraded Warzone experience once we go live for subscribers, you can rest assured that we will quickly make adjustments to the system to ensure that subscribers have an optimal experience.”
Source: SW:TOR forum via PC Gamer
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This will help the US servers a lot, but I’m afraid the Aussie server is beyond salvation.
I really hate MMO-speak. WTF does “Cartel Coin item lock (i.e. temporary bind)” mean? lol
I adore SW:TOR, and I will be subscribing through F2P until I am done, but I really think some of their plans for F2P are missing the mark. Seems like they want to encourage subscription through crazy harsh restrictions, not through strong content or character attachment.
I think F2P is a good idea to have as well as subscriptions and not just one or the other. I’ll defiantly go back as F2P, be it only once a week or so when I’ve got time. Hope it all pans out well and maybe other MMO’s can learn from their example.
Looking forward to this actually, i’d like to go back to finish off my bounty hunter story at least.
This game needs go F2P ASAP because otherwise it will die. And EA seem to be biding their time waiting for people to subscribe in case it goes F2P, people may subscribe in the meantime hoping to get the special subscriber bonuses. Knowing EA they wont announce with a great deal of time when it goes F2P so that people cant sub before hand and get the extra bonuses.
Uhhh… hasn’t it been f2p for a couple of months already?
It’s a pretty bad Free to Play system. It is generally based on renting the game for a week instead of a month.
Most F2Pers want to spend money and to me it seems that something like LOTRO where you buy content not rent it seems better. Instead of renting access to purples for a week build gear into the new content you make and then charge for that content like buying a DLC package. This kind of system would promote new content as well.
You might as well subscribe with the current system they’ve made up.
nekosan,
I think only the first 20 levels or something at the moment, going full f2p later on.