I would probably never buy any cartel packs or items, only unlocks that I need inorder to feasibly play the game. What would you get?

Cartel Market

+2 hotbars for account =1080

then...wait for character slot unlocks?

...and that's all I could buy with 2000. There is still a lot more unlocks I would need to be able to play the game.

will get a warzone pass for a week when they add the new WZ.

errmm. that's it

might as well gamble them away

Originally posted by mmoguy43

I would probably never buy any cartel packs or items, only unlocks that I need inorder to feasibly play the game. What would you get?

Cartel Market

 

+2 hotbars for account =1080

then...wait for character slot unlocks?

...and that's all I could buy with 2000. There is still a lot more unlocks I would need to be able to play the game.

My choices would match yours because my only interest in SWTOR is to level all classes on one server. 

Nobody should have to pay for those action bars but I'd actually consider buying them.  Extra character slots would be important to me as well.

I assume that if you subscribe and then later cancel it, you will go back down to the 2 character slots per server limitation of preferred members? 

The problem is that they designed their cash shop in a way so that you basically can't play past level 50 effectively without subscribing.  All of the most useful feature purchases are actually consumables.  So if you want to raid, you buy a week pass.  Want to get loot from flashpoints, then buy a week pass.

The permanent unlocks, like the ability to wear artifact/moddable gear are incredibly expensive (1200 per character or 2700 per account).  Also, that unlock is unsettlingly vague in that it states it applies to "story and pvp equipment" which means you may or may not be able to use raid gear even after spending the money on the unlock.

Despite Bioware's claim that F2P is the way of the future, they very much want this to be a subscription-based game.  Sure, they've given existing subscribers free cartel points, but not nearly enough to do more than buy a few weeks worth of raid time, or maybe unlock a species if they haven't already.

Originally posted by asmkm22

The problem is that they designed their cash shop in a way so that you basically can't play past level 50 effectively without subscribing.  All of the most useful feature purchases are actually consumables.  So if you want to raid, you buy a week pass.  Want to get loot from flashpoints, then buy a week pass.

The permanent unlocks, like the ability to wear artifact/moddable gear are incredibly expensive (1200 per character or 2700 per account).  Also, that unlock is unsettlingly vague in that it states it applies to "story and pvp equipment" which means you may or may not be able to use raid gear even after spending the money on the unlock.

 

Despite Bioware's claim that F2P is the way of the future, they very much want this to be a subscription-based game.  Sure, they've given existing subscribers free cartel points, but not nearly enough to do more than buy a few weeks worth of raid time, or maybe unlock a species if they haven't already.

Yeah, it truely isn't feasible to make the game playable so that you can do Operations, Warzones, and Flashpoints as much as you want. Resub is the only real viable option for that. They way I see it though is that you can (somewhat) make playing alts to go through all the stories feasible and is the only real viable method of playing SWTOR completely free of a sub.

Others- please try to stay on topic. I know this is crazy but I'm looking for serious answers.

Well, to answer your question, I have no idea what I'll do with it.

I supposedly will have 1500 coins when it goes live.  I'll unlock the new Area X or whatever it's called, since it's new content and needed to get HK, but I'll probably sit on the rest.  I assume that, as they release new content in the future, it will cost cartel points as well rather than be free, which means blowing everything you have now may not be a great idea.

Having to pay for hotbars.. what a fucking joke.

WTF has happened to MMOs...? The worst thing is that people are actually going to pay for them and support this nonsense. Sad.

I used to think all the hate for SWTOR was a bit undeserved. Not anymore.

Originally posted by FrodoFragins

Originally posted by mmoguy43

I would probably never buy any cartel packs or items, only unlocks that I need inorder to feasibly play the game. What would you get?

Cartel Market

 

+2 hotbars for account =1080

then...wait for character slot unlocks?

...and that's all I could buy with 2000. There is still a lot more unlocks I would need to be able to play the game.

My choices would match yours because my only interest in SWTOR is to level all classes on one server. 

 

Nobody should have to pay for those action bars but I'd actually consider buying them.  Extra character slots would be important to me as well.

 

I assume that if you subscribe and then later cancel it, you will go back down to the 2 character slots per server limitation of preferred members? 

The restrictions can't be that bad.

There is preferred status, and you get to have several earned perks over f2p players. I would be surprised if they restricted your players per server after going f2p. Do they make us choose which players we put to sleep?

Sounds creepy.

Originally posted by Incomparable

 

The restrictions can't be that bad.

There is preferred status, and you get to have several earned perks over f2p players. I would be surprised if they restricted your players per server after going f2p. Do they make us choose which players we put to sleep?

Sounds creepy.

LOWTHOR: What happens if all the characters I have already created while subscribed (before Free-to-Play announcement) are now restricted species?

Damion Schubert: Your characters will not be deleted and you CAN still use those characters in the active slots you have as a Free-to-Play member.

Source:

http://www.swtor.com/blog/community-qa-free-play-edition

Originally posted by mmoguy43

Others- please try to stay on topic. I know this is crazy but I'm looking for serious answers.

When my options include tranlucent underwear, a monkey lizzard, glowing eyes, a floating throne car, how can my answer be serious?

Originally posted by mmoguy43

 

 If you had 2000 Cartel coins, what would you unlock/purchase?

I have 2700 CC in bank and honestly as a subscriber there's nothing appealing to me.

Well I might get the rocket boost but, apart that the shops makes me yawn.

The stuff is either way overpriced ($3 for a chest piece, $9 for a crystal, $12 for a gear set), stupid (Gamorrean axe) or even broken (move while in carbonite chamber and see the result).

Mickey Mouse plush toy.