Star Wars: The Old Republic going free-to-play on November 15
In a move Electronic Arts has been prepping for months, Star Wars: The Old Republic will be going free-to-play on November 15 in a effort to renew interest in the MMO that has seen its subscriber base dip below 1 million.
In a move Electronic Arts has been prepping for months, Star Wars: The Old Republic will be going free-to-play on November 15. EA is hoping to renew interest in the MMO, which has seen its subscriber base dip below 1 million.
Current subscribers will get 250 free Cartel Coins as well as coins for the number of months they have paid for their account, the announcement said. Prior subscribers that reactivate before December 20 will get coins for the months they had paid up to the free-to-play launch.
BioWare Lead Designer Damien Schubert told fans that free-to-play players will gain experience more slowly than paid players, and some aspects of play will be limited, but they will still be able to hit level 50 and access most of the main story and side quests as paid players.
The next content update 1.5 is coming soon, featuring the HK-51 Assassination droid and Nightmare more. Check out the developer dispatch that discusses the pending changes.
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replyJohn Keefer posted a new article, Star Wars: The Old Republic going free-to-play on November 15.
In a move Electronic Arts has been prepping for months, Star Wars: The Old Republic will be going free-to-play on November 15 in a effort to renew interest in the MMO that has seen its subscriber base dip below 1 million.-
"featuring the HK-51 Assassination droid"
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Total Biscuit basically said the same thing and said the restrictive nature of the F2P design isn't going to get people to stay.
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Lowered xp now? What the hell, guys.
I was pretty interested in this at the first announcement, but now it seems every time I read something about it, the F2P option just seems more pointless.-
I could probably live with that, but did they change their mind on the "no running for free players" thing?
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The lower XP is a good thing given how the basic XP rate is stupidly high so you out level every area you are in by a good 4-6 levels hell by the time i was in the level 40 zone i was level 50.
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if they're doing this with their over-anticipated cash cow, all the few remaining WAR players will likely expect the same...Tier 1 F2P just won't cut it anymore after this announcement. Not that anyone cares, but I do.
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If TOR had the budget of WAR it would probably still be P2P, the games don't have the same expectations. It also remains to be seen if their F2P model takes off.
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They sent me an email telling me I had Cartel Coins and to visit my account page to see how many. (Zero)
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I will if I can figure out how to reset my phone app :(
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I think I will too. I have a different phone now and forgot to unhook it from the old one before wiping it. :(
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You have to call a number, wasn't that bad though
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I think you have to have an active sub prior to F2P as well in order to get the bonus cartel coins. So if you want them need to resub for a month before next week.
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Restrictive F2P seems to have worked for Turbine. Other P2P games that have gone F2P retain premium subscription models as well, I can only assume this means they are also restrictive in some way.
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