Star Wars: The Old Republic

Star Wars: The Old Republic is now free-to-play

As of today, Bioware has announced that SWTOR is officially free-to-play. Along with it comes a new playable area, a new companion, and new quests. What do you think? If you haven't played it, will this get you to try it? If you have played it, do you think the new players will liven things up?

http://www.swtor.com/info/news/press-release/20121115

I'm just about to download this and see what all the fuss is about. Oddly, it doesn't seem Origin has caught up to this being free-to-play. I was going to jump into Origin as part of this process as well, just to try it out, since I've never touched it before.

SWToR Free to Play Details

For quite some time EA has been saying Star Wars: The Old Republic will go free to play. They recently dropped some details on how that will work.

http://www.swtor.com/free/features

I think the big take away from this list is that everything will be limited for free to play users with the story being one exception. The limitations don't seem to restrictive, but we will know more when free to play is available.

If you make any purchase at all the game unlocks:

The ability to run faster (Sprint) starting at Level 1.

Cargo Hold access (Bank Slots) and higher login queue priority.

Increased access to Chat and Secure Trading.

The ability to run faster has me wondering if we... Read All

BR Supporter wrote on 10/21/2012 at 02:49am

I feel like having to pay to run is a little ridiculous. I mean, maybe if you couldn't have mounts or something, but running? That is stupid. Might as well take away other basic things such as attacking and wearing armor if your going to start taking away stuff like that.

Anyways, I do think the game will do better free to play. I most likely will not try it, but I think more people who are on the fence will at least give it a try.

jaelte wrote on 10/21/2012 at 05:54am

The referenced Sprint ability is normally available at level 14 (or 15, I don't remember). It appears that paying just makes that ability available at level 1 instead.

jaelte wrote on 10/21/2012 at 05:56am

Erm. Or I could be wrong about that; looking at some patch notes from a couple months ago, it looks like the ability is now at level 1 normally. Hrmph.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/21/2012 at 05:56pm

Yeah paying to run faster is a bit odd. But, it looks like just buying anything unlocks that set of things so hopefully you can buy a lightsabre or something for .99 cents.

The other MMO I play at times is Lord of the Rings Online and the only reason I picked it up because it was F2P. I haven't sunk any money into it but a few friends I have did as a results of us all playing together.

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Yes it is on the list. And now it can be talked about. This

Yes it is on the list. And now it can be talked about. This game has taken me away from WoW in a very positive way. I like the Bioware spin too an MMO. They stated in the beginning that they were not going to reinvent the wheel but give their take on what an MMO should be. This gave people the impression of another Rift style WoW clone. But they have taken the game to a unique level and I am having a great time in TOR. They are always improving the game and sometimes those changes cut into peak game time but I am finding it well worth it.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/01/2012 at 06:50am

Awesome. I've heard great things about it and that it's some people's favorite game of 2012 and the year just started :)

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 02/01/2012 at 10:14pm

I'm kinda glad my laptop sucks and I'm not able to play it ;)

Looks pretty sweet though!

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/02/2012 at 12:47am

lol, that's the same reason I can't play it. It won't run on my desktop. It's probably for the best. I don't really have the time to invest in a new MMO addiction. The game is pretty awesome though. I've never played an MMO before that made me consider my character more than just an avatar. In the 4 years I played FFXI all I can really tell you about my character is that he was a kick ass Samurai. In the 3 weekends I beta tested Star Wars: TOR I can tell you my Bounty Hunter was, deep down, actually not that bad a guy. However, he was a true mercenary who would take any job and was bound to a strict honor code to finish the job no matter what and no matter who stood in his way. I actually found myself choosing dialogue options not based on which I thought would get me better rewards, but which seemed appropriate to the character I'd created. :)

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 02/02/2012 at 12:52am

That is way too cool sounding.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/02/2012 at 03:11am

How much is the monthly on it?

Ben_Dodson Post Author wrote on 02/02/2012 at 07:18am

15$ just like wow sub

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