Star Wars MMO might be going F2P
After the honeymoon (free 30-day subscription), many MMOs see a drop in subscribers. Star Wars was no exception to this and BioWare notes that nearly a half million subscribers have stopped playing, settling at about 1.3 million current subscribers in the universe. Because of this, BioWare’s lead designer Emmanuel Lusinchi mentions that the free-to-play model might be a viable option.
It isn’t as simple as making a game available for free. Lusinchi feels that the game needs competitive in-game pricing as compared to other titles in the same space as well. It isn’t so much that the free part that is enticing, as much as it is the content that users can purchase being justified. After it was revealed that the first 15 levels will be free-to-play coming later this summer, expect to hear more about this soon.
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this can only be good for the game, they proved that only relying on the star wars brand and the storyline driven leveling is not good enough yo keep subscribers when everything else cant shake the deja vu feel, ill maybe play it if it goes f2p but its more likely that it will go pay to win like battlefield heroes, EA just dont get how to make microtransactions work
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TREVRAWR
That's pretty cool i guess, but what I'd like to see is them make a Mac client. Sure I could boot camp my iMac or just by a pc, but I don't want to.
Shiro_Shishi
To be honest, I think going F2P would only BENEFIT TOR at this point.
I mean, there are tons of stuff these days that are F2P and they do just fine.
seniormeld
I kinda hope it goes completely F2P, I really want to play more in the Old Republic universe. I could never justify a paid subscription game to myself though so I doubt I will play it this summer with its extended demo (its not F2P if it cuts out access after a certain point, that is a demo)
Double-T
It IS going F2P in July, thats already been stated. Free till lvl 15, which is equal to 2 planets/the entire prologe.
sheepysean13
I'd probably play it again if it went F2P.