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During EA's press conference at the pre-opening festivities for E3, BioWare announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be ripping a page out of many other MMOs' playbooks: Starting in July, SWTOR will be F2P through level 15. The team also noted that new warzones, high level content, new companions, a new planet to explore and much more will be coming throughout the balance of 2012. Check out the press conference 'sizzle' trailer on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic page.
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6/04/12 4:30:51 PM#2
Originally posted by Suzie_Ford /fixed
Too little too late I'm afraid. |
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6/04/12 4:31:00 PM#3
Sadly, this will not be enough to bring myself or my guild members back to the game. I wish Bioware the best with SWTOR. |
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6/04/12 4:31:06 PM#4
*rolls eyes* that is not F2P! man when will trion,blizztard,EA get that it is a trial not F2P.
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6/04/12 4:34:37 PM#5
Originally posted by Suzie_Ford Which is still a far stretch from going completely F2P! Just saying that before all the SWTOR haters come and say "told ya so, SWTOR is dying and will be going F2P soon!" Level 15 can be easily reached on a free weekend, so it's really just to tempt the more casual gamers... though I wonder how much more casual you need to be to take more than 2 days for lvl15? Or maybe they want to breed a low lvl PvP crowd? hm... Or it's all a numbers game to them... *shrug* |
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6/04/12 4:35:24 PM#6
It doesnt state that SWTOR will be F2P. It states that SWTOR will be F2P through level 15. I wanted to type something really smart as a reply to this subject, but the Scarlet Blade ad got me distracted and I forgot what I wanted to type. |
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6/04/12 4:41:25 PM#7
I find it odd they left out things like a whole new planet, new playable race and the new dungeon difficulty mode, instead only mentioning the more of the same in this announcment.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson If you can't argue the point don't say anything at all. |
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6/04/12 4:41:35 PM#8
No surprise with the dropping numbers. Reminds me of AOC in the big front end in sales and the plummet of numbers. |
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6/04/12 4:42:57 PM#9
Useless - I did all the content up to level 15 in a previous weekend already. Oh well I'll use this to play a bit of Huttball.
Still EA should finally realize that they need a real f2p version, not a f2p weekend > followed by a f2p weekend > followed by a f2p weekend (........) >>> followed by a f2p trial. |
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6/04/12 4:44:01 PM#10
This article didn't even mention ANYTHING they talked about other than the trial thing. There's new wz's, fp's, operations, playble species, new space content, new planet, new legacy content, and the next phase of story ...and other things they haven't talked about yet. |
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Originally posted by Valentina You missed this?
The team also noted that new warzones, high level content, new companions, and more will be coming throughout the balance of 2012. Associate Editor: MMORPG.com |
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6/04/12 4:47:27 PM#12
[mod edit] Oh look a potatoe is an apple of the earth! It is not F2P it is an unlimited trial to level 15. F2P my ass, I hate swtor spin. F2P involes a change of method and structure to give players content at paid for piece meal components, sometimes with an option of an all in sub fee that provides currency bonuses. Until they have that in place they have no right to use the F2P title, queue unlimited trial to 15 thats what it is.
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6/04/12 4:49:36 PM#13
It can't hurt them at this point. |
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6/04/12 4:51:47 PM#14
Originally posted by Suzie_Ford Missed it? no... Wondered why F2P to 15 was bigger news than things like New species, New planet (Makeb, with new story content), new character advancment and new level cap? yes.. For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson If you can't argue the point don't say anything at all. |
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6/04/12 4:51:53 PM#15
You know that a potato is indeed an apple of the earth in some languages? "Torquemada... do not implore him for compassion.Torquemada... do not beg him for forgiveness.Torquemada... do not ask him for mercy.Let's face it,you can't Torquemada anything!" Mechwarrior Online - A Thinking Person's Shoter |
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Corehaven
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6/04/12 4:53:35 PM#16
Originally posted by Wicoa
HAHAHAHA.......HAHAAHAHAHAHA! Do....what!?
I have no idea what you just said, but somehow I think its the most epic thing Ive ever read on these forums.....
In any case I guess they said, " Lets just stop giving out free weekends and make it permanent. Might as well. " They were doing it all the time anyways. Oh and the other junk they're adding should be super swell. I guess. |
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6/04/12 4:53:48 PM#17
And a new level cap. That seems rather ill advised. |
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6/04/12 5:00:42 PM#18
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6/04/12 5:02:34 PM#19
I can't say I'm surprised by this at this point, and it's probably a good move on their part. But, man, what a sad era of the genre these times have become. I wonder how bad things are going to have to get until SWTOR goes full blown F2P. If and when it does, I won't be surprised then either. "When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." -Stephen F Roberts |
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6/04/12 5:05:02 PM#20
Originally posted by dead2soon Yeah. That one has me stumped. I just don't "get" that at all, not with the little information we have. New planets, operations and such I get. New level cap though? O.K....How does that affect class stories? Legacy system? The already overloaded action bars with even more abilities, it's becoming quite a mess to figure out where to put half my skills on certain classes if not all of them.  |
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