Rise of the Hutt Cartel releases on April 14th
The worms rise to power next month.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Players: Massive Multiplayer Online
Publisher: BioWare/Lucasarts
Genres: RPG, Other
Publisher: BioWare/Lucasarts
Genres: RPG, Other
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Developer: BioWare Austin/Lucasarts
MSRP: $FREE
Developer: BioWare Austin/Lucasarts
MSRP: $FREE
Set 300 years after the events in Knights of the Old Republic (and featuring some familiar faces), Star Wars: The Old Republic will put players on either side of a massive war between the Republic and the Empire.
Star Wars: TOR Going Free-to-Play “This Fall”
Posted By Austin Yorski about 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Your lack of pandas disturbs me.
While we’ve known for some time that Star Wars: The Old Republic was going to be free in some capacity, we now have official word: the game is going fully free-to-play “this Fall.” A new system of “Cartel Coins” will be instituted in order to reward current subscribers and to allow for micro-transactions. The breakdown goes as followed:
*Current/Former Subscribers: Receive 200 Cartel Coins for each paid month prior to July 31, 2012. For example: If you played 3 months, you receive 600 *Cartel Coins.
*Collector’s Edition Pack =1000 Cartel Coins Special Appreciation Reward (Launch in Fall 2012)
*Transition Months = 200 Cartel Coins per Month (August – Launch in Fall 2012)
*Launch of New Free-to-Play Option = 250 Cartel Coins Bonus (Launch 2012)
The first 15 levels of The Old Republic are already free, so there’s nothing stopping you from checking out the game as it is. Subscription and free-to-play members will all be on the same servers and the only thing that will separate paying from non-paying customers are “specialty items that allow you to customize and equip your character cosmetically” and “in-game items including customizable gear and convenience features that will enhance the game play experience.” All 8 character storylines will be accessible (up to level 50) for F2P users, although some content will be restricted.
No specific pricing information has been revealed for Cartel Coin Packs or in-game item values. Learn all the details at the official FAQ linked below.
Source: BioWare
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This is a sad day for the industry simply because all the moneybags will now feel confirmed in saying that Free to Play and Item Malls are the way to go… In reality the lesson here is: Gamers can smell the WoW on you even if you dress it up with spaceships.
I feel a great disturbance in the force..as if a thousand voices cried in agony…oh..no..sorry that was the sound of a thousand voices giving zero damns. I tend to confuse the two.. =/
To be honest, while I thought it was a good game, it just felt like it would have made for a better single-player experience than an MMO. Nevertheless, I will try to start playing this again.
Man, I REALLY hope Guild Wars 2 is a massive success just so that I can rub it in at WoW’s smug prick community. >:(
I feel weird about this news. Back around launch, I was really hyped but unwilling to pay a monthly fee. I’d say things like “Were this free-to-play, I would be all over this!” Yet now when I actually hear this news… I feel almost ambivalent. I just don’t care as much as I once did. I mean, I’ll probably still try it out, but… *shrug* eh.
Goes to show that the only MMO to beat WoW will be Blizzard’s Titan.
It’s probably for the best that they are going from subs to f2p. WoW seems to be the only MMO that can succeed with subscriptions anymore, and I’m guessing that it is due to it’s large and long-established playerbase. I know people who pay the subscription of that game yet never play it, and they give me the excuse that they use it to keep in touch with other people. I imagine it’s this bizarre mentality around WoW that allows Blizzard to get away with it’s long delays between content and far overpriced vanity items.
This way, at least people who only want to play the single-player content don’t have to worry about paying a sub, and I hope that there is still enough development behind the game so that new content will continue to be made as I would like to see where the post-Denova storyline is going. However, I dread when all of the trolls come out of the woodwork to declare “the death of TOR”, regardless of whether or not the F2P change may make the playerbase larger and game more profitable.
If it’s not pay to win model then good on you EA and bioware. If it is, EA can suck my hairy cock.
http://angryjoeshow.com/2012/07/swtor-to-go-f2p-bets-are-over/
Need to pay in order to have access to all the dungeons, and to raid at all. So basically, this is a F2P game for the casual crowd, since the only content F2Pers have full access to is the class story content from 1-50.
So, the part I actually care about as a social MMORPG.
Sounds like a good deal to me.
You should really try second life, it’s pretty much interactive facebook which seems to be more your forte.
I personally enjoy the Social aspects but thats not why I play a game, I play a Game for the gaming aspects not the facebook aspect.
I suppose thats okay, it’s basically a free bioware RPG. But still it stinks of EA money grubbing, but I guess all of there games have that odor.
If you have hair all the way to the tip of your cock, you need to go see a doctor and avoid silver
only hairy like that on a full moon. I don’t know why, also the next morning after the full moon I always wake up next to a corpse. I still don’t know the correlation.
While switching to a free-to-pay model is by no means admitting defeat fundamentally, in this situation, it very much is. Subs were never very high for SWTOR and they’ve been dropping, and I like to think that every time someone in EA says “free,” a chip in John Riccitiello’s skull gives him a little jolt. Good to hear for all of you who still like the game, but I can’t see myself coming back even if Guild Wars 2 wasn’t coming out.
I knew i wasn’t going to have to wait long for this to happen.
well that removes one of the problems, feeling like you are paying a sub to play a singleplayer game, wich the story arcs are.
Going to play the story parts alittle here and there, but unless they massively reduce the timesinks there is everywhere in the game, I am not going to give them anymore money.
While on one level I am said to see the game not take off to the degree it needed to be sustainable as a fully subscription based title, on a personal level I happy I will be able to start playing the game again come this fall. I really did love my time with SW:TOR and only financial reasons kept me from sticking with the game.
Haha, I love watching really hyped up games fall. I just get some perverse fuzzy feeling when a game everyone talks about doesn’t do very well, and it’s so entertaining to read everyone debating about it. I think another reason I wanted to see this become Free to Play was because EA put a fortune into this game, and I just wanted it to fail so they blew all that money. I don’t particularly hate EA or anything, not even Bioware, I just like seeing things like this happen.
It’s fun for some weird reason.
What kind of sadistic person wants to see games be bad? When people talk about a game a lot, it’s because they think it’s going to be good. I don’t like SWTOR at all, but it’s not because other people were excited for it, it’s because I played it and had issues with it. I hate Call of Duty, but if they manage to fix everything with it and turn it into the best game ever, then I will happily buy it.
Have fun being a spiteful hipster that hates games because a lot of people like it.
How am I spiteful?
Also, I’m not a hipster, I like pretty much every popular game I’ve played (with the exception of Skyrim), The Walking Dead, Mass Effect 3, The Witcher 2 – I loved all those games, and I’m pretty sure public opinion on all of em is that they are great games.
And seeing things being so hyped up, watching everyone get their expectations up for it, doesn’t a small bit of your mind think it would be funny if it failed? Don’t you want to watch the outrage of fans and have a good read? I remember when The Last Airbender was first released in theaters and it flopped, it was one of the most entertaining days at work for me, because I kept reading everyone bashing the damn thing into oblivion.
If anything, I should ask why you are being so spiteful towards me.
To answer everyone’s inevitable question: “Yes. Yes I will.”
Oh, great! I could use that $20 I was just about to ask if you would lend me. Thank, pal!
Probably going to keep my subscription going regardless. The game has been improving a lot and I’m actually very happy to keep supporting it because I really want to see some expansions that keep the story arcs going. Plus the community has been really friendly and fun in all of my experience with the game. It seems to have gotten a lot better ironically with all the die-hard fanboys evacuating back to WoW or gearing up for GW2…
Well, glad to know I can play this game some more without worrying about breaking the bank.