Star Wars: The Old Republic Going Free To Play?

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that would be awsome!!!!!!!!

HA!! I knew it was gonna go free to play. I give it 6 month to 1 year and it's completely free to play.

I don't get HOW this is free to play. This is more of a demo if anything.

Evryone is going to F2P cause you get the most money. In a F2P game you pay like 15$ only for an armor/sword. In P2P games 15 $ is the monthly subscribtion, and u get almost evrything. And F2P games can have cash shop,subscription, promos, offers, some even charge for emotes.

P2P=ONLY PAY FOR RENT
F2P = PAY FOR RENT, FURNITURE, ROOMATE, PAY TO SPEAK, PAY TO GO TO TOILET, PAY TO MOVE

Its a WoW re-skin, of coarse it's losing the player base.

I hope this game will be not f2p...next free to play demo no thx

F2P is ruining the MMO area for ture MMO players. The last thing I want to see in the game is whining 10 year olds and people who dont even speak english FLOODING the servers. Bioware if you going to do this to use please make F2P only servers.

there should be segregation between all f2p and p2p servers. And if someone spends more the $25-50 bucks in cash store then give them the ability to transfer to P2P servers this they are ture players paying for the game as well.

Stupid ideots, whos goin to play that fake free to play wich is locked :D only morons like developers, this system not working.

They should make cash shop where people can buy xp boosters thats it! Free players will not going to play tus fake, web have tonns of pure free to play games. f**** jews

I hope its not F2P like FreeRealms

As to SWTOR going f2p.... I sadly don't think so. as nice as it would be, EA won't let any money slip through their fingers. They would keep it pay to play until the subscriber base dropps way below 50. yes, I left that last zero off on purpose. Only because I know how EA likes to do things.

I am psyched about this news..been in and out of work trying to save for a car when i am making money and just cant afford to pay to play right now..but my stomach has been turning knowing that im missing out on this game..i got in for the free weekend and only stopped playing cuz i fell asleep in my chair and was auto logged.......been wanting to get back in ever since...i can not wait for f2p swtor!!!

you know why? cause they start to have less and less subscribers. still I don't think they will go full free2play, maybe like wow, free forever but only till lvl 20

who cares... this game is horrible

Nice... but its only to lvl 15.... soon enough its going to have to go fully free-to-play. Its sad that i find free to play games that are BETTER then this game. Yeah sure story is good, but it shouldn't be the only thing you market the game for. You expect me to pay 60$ then 15$ per month to play a game that plays exactly like a normal rpg... This deserve's the free to play model, like almost every pay-to-play game does.

look is it f2p or is it just like world of warcraft its free to a certain lvl then you have to pay! that is not f2p,f2p means the entire game is free no weekly monthly yearly payments!

SWTOR F2P?Yeah, its a good game, BUT, it is losing their playerbase day by day, and the lack of endgame content dont help.I think they are protected by 2 letters: EA.Any way, its very "wrong" to turn f2p now, since millions of people have purchased the game.It will turn f2p, but will take a looong time.

What is funny is the main office for Bioware is about 350 kilometers north of where i live in....

I dont have to call them, i can just drive 2-3 hours to their main office, and start yelling go free to play!
Guess I don't have to.

A seasoned mmo player would know better not to play this game. If yet not convinced, just remember the time when it was required to buy the game and pay for monthly subscriptions. Playing it free is much likely showing a gamer is easily swayed or convinced. Playing it free is much a product of scamming millions of people's money just to make it free at the end(and it has not been a year from it release. Currently just 7 months).

There's a very good reason why TOR lost subscribers at a drastic rate. It's a bad game milking a franchise overrated not by its early films, but by Lucas himself. Yet a franchise unfortunately have not died.

yeah this is just another lame attempt at calling a trial a free to play game. they do it with Lord of the Rings, Dungeons and Dragons, and World of Warcraft... Bioware is famous for never going free to play they won't change. Heck the president of the company said he would rather kill his whole family than even think of making their ancient game Dark Age of Camelot free to play which is wayyyyyy older than World of Warcraft.

Don't expect them to change it will always be pay to play this is just a trial they are offering to try and bring in more customers. I bet the trial accounts can't whisper, do dungeons, or do anything in the game other than the basic quest up to level 15.

A true free to play game has full access to the entire game the only difference in paid and free content is what can be gained by a cash shop or more character/bank/bag/costume slots and sometimes mounts. A free to play game never limits levels or interface/chat options that's how you tell its a trail.

I think it will copy WoW, but instead of free up to level 20, it's free up to level 15.

Its great in the sense that it'll bring more players to the game, it's disappointing the the sense that I was stupid and bought the collectors edition :(

EA has his hands on this one, expect a pay2win model, imbalanced premium skills and paying for everything.... even for clicking the mouse...

Its very simple really why they go F2P, because they this mmorpg lacks the quality a p2p mmorpg needs to be ^^

Can you even do pvp at level 15?

Well, that was just to be expected.
Everybody knows that F2P are taking over the market, either that or go with a B2P model like GuildWars

thats just stupid, you get to level 15 in a few hours :/

Interesting...GamesTM has since removed the articles they had on this. The links are still there but they go Error 404....

I think the game will have to eventually, the subscriber base is in free fall at the moment.
-Magicman

i knew it ... it was foreseeable as hell... F2P is taking over the pay per month game model ...
cause f2p is some thing like a DEMO which has been gone since 99 and now they returning cause nobody like to buy a cat in the bag ...

and im still wondering why game developers still making single players games where the MMO is all about ....

At the time i just payed for it ^^? awesome :P