Comments on: SW:TOR’s F2P restrictions eased following community feedback

By: tranquil

tranquil — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:43:14 +0000

nekosan, I think only the first 20 levels or something at the moment, going full f2p later on.

By: cyrinno

cyrinno — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:37:13 +0000

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.

By: nekosan

nekosan — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:41:32 +0000

inaugral: people may subscribe in the meantime hoping to get the special subscriber bo

Uhhh... hasn't it been f2p for a couple of months already?

By: inaugral

inaugral — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:55:33 +0000

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.

By: tranquil

tranquil — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:00:14 +0000

Looking forward to this actually, i’d like to go back to finish off my bounty hunter story at least.

By: goric

goric — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:09:53 +0000

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.

By: vencha88

vencha88 — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:36:02 +0000

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.

By: c0mc0

c0mc0 — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:12:09 +0000

I really hate MMO-speak. WTF does “Cartel Coin item lock (i.e. temporary bind)” mean? lol

By: syncourt

syncourt — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:51:50 +0000

This will help the US servers a lot, but I’m afraid the Aussie server is beyond salvation.