Star Wars: The Old Republic free-to-play Nov. 15

Oh Man, They cancel the Battlefront games, no Xwing Reboot, No Republic Commando 2, no Empire at War 2, no Episode 1: Racer: Reboot, meanwhile, Chris Roberts is bringing Star Citizen, a Wing Commander Spiritual Succesor, Sony just brought out Planetside 2, Piranha games with Mechwarrior Online are reviving the franchise, Crytek are working on Warface, a scifi shooter, Strike Suit Zero just came out... so, no hint seen here, Lucasarts? really? way to go guys...

lol wtf, how did i miss this. called this last year. 

I just wonder... When is EA gonna die already?

I just spent few hours SWTOR F2P, and to make it short, it is appalling. They cut in everything so you have to pay in $ to "unlock". For example, most of the rewards are now for subscribers. You pay to extend your inventory, to equip a purple item, to have normal exp, to respawn where you die, to teleport, etc. You think you are going to level up? Normally you have to finish all the missions to be able to change of planet. Now they have downgraded the exp, you will stuck on the first one. Lucas have been greedy and is going to lose its gamers for that.

downloading now :O 12gb @@

I've played both subscribtion and F2P, and I tell you, they really castrate your balls in F2P. You don't even have access to something basic like additional action slots. you have to pay to unlock tons of shit that seems so basic. y'now what? I'll stick to Guild Wars 2

So far it is an hour late for the launch time. Not a good way to impress new players at all.

For anyone who never gave the game a try because of fees, do yourself a favor and at least try it. It really is an amazing game and extremely fun/well done. I followed it for at least 3 years before I finally got into beta and early release and it was well worth the wait.

I canceled months ago because I just didn't have time to play nor would paying the monthly fee be worth the little time I had to play. But with this option, you can't go wrong with this game.I know I'll definitely be going back to play it now.

Here's my opinion on SWTOR's F2P. I think everyone should know about this. http://www.gamingbittervets.com/2012/11/star-wars-old-republic-will-ask-f2p.html

I havent bother with this game because of the fees but now i will defiantly give it a go and see if i like it.

all games should be free to play. u buy the game for the retailer then the last thing u want to be doing is paying a subscrition fee on top of that every month.

they should make a subscritions at least be paid in gaming time not just monthly fees. u should get a month of gameplay not just a month then have to pay more to play next month

OKAY! Now...Now...ONLY NOW will I take a look at this game! Seriously, it's about time. What was your clue that this would be a good move...maybe the fact that every other game is f2p??? Hmmmm, what a conundrum indeed!

That's nice.  You started P2P, even though the model to follow was F2P.  I could care less for your company.

Someone should do a fund for kotor 3. I'd be willing to shell out some money for that.

There's too much competition in the market now for the dedicated gamer to bother signing up to anything. We play the best games available, and games with subscription models rarely stay the best for very long.

I think people who constantly complain about their not being enough end game content in these mmos, need to think where they are coming from. The games coming out are not WoW they havent had the game out for 10 years to build content on it like that. And unfortunately they wont ever be able to. They should just have it Guild Wars style, and that will solve a bunch of problems.

I remember a guy saying he didnt like guild wars because of end game content, there wasnt much there, then he went on to say he plays almost everyday for AT LEAST over 6 hours. Well yaaaa when you video game addicts are out playing nonstop a game that was just released 2 months prior,  as opposed to a game that has had years of video game addicts playing non stop your at a disadvantage right?

That said i really enjoyed SWTOR, most fun Ive had leveling ever, i had it on a crappy pc though and couldnt do any pvp because of frame rate. If SWTOR would come out with a Mac version I would play.

Honestly I feel the large subscription based MMO is largely dead. The only reason WoW carries on as it does is because it has such a large user base built in an era when the subscription model wasn't as much of an issue because many users either had their subscriptions being paid by someone else (their parents usually), or because money and time wasn't as tight for the adult users. Now the game is loosing numbers as adolescent players hit the point they have to pay for things themselves, and adult players with jobs just don't have the time or extra money. The only thing retaining most of the player base these days is the invenstment in time they've made in their characters, they can't just let those thousands of hours go so they keep paying into it. Where as new games in which they've not become established can't make the subscription model work because players don't already have the personal investment in the game like they do with WoW that helps them justify the cost.

Making this MMO in the first place was the dumb idea.  They should have just made KOTOR 3, which is what people wanted in the first place. 

OMFG... Companies are so damn stupid it makes my brain hurt. Attn: morons: unless your MMO is called "World of Warcraft," you can't have a monthly subscription fee. Every freaking time they do this, then have to waste additional resources designing the free model. Stop. Just stop... Make it free to begin with, and save us all the trouble of your poor decision making skills and failed logic.

I like the idea of a subscription menu, although I can't understand what possible justification there can be for restricting the number of skill quick slots for non-sub players. I think SWTOR has gone diddely on, but I hope the idea of pay-once single player + flexible sub MMO, for games with good SP campaign like SWTOR, will catch on.

November 15 is my Birthday :D

MMO's nowadays are missing things needed before they release, either end game content, new types of content (things other mmo's dont have), "decent pvp"(large scale), end game content and/or decent story.

They say it takes years to  create an mmo, it only toke me a minute to think of a half decent list of what an mmo needs to be successful.

Once i reached level 50 on one of my charaters and started to make another, i saw that this game wasnt going to last, it had a great story, but it was similar on all charaters bar the main story, even the evil side had similar story features, the pvp was bad, no large scale pvp to speak off, and finally the end game content was lacking.

5 years to make this game, *sigh* they shoulda spent more time thinking about what to make.

WoW is so much easier

if you never bought the game, then you will love it. if you have a few max level characters, they are doing nothing to get you to return. In order to get my 900+ cartel coins(the currency for their cash shop) they are requiring me to re-sub again. Also, people that bought the game and subbed are only being given 2 character slots. if i want to play the other characters that i have at max level, i have to pay for unlocks. they are also gating skill bars in the cash shop. 

it's funny to me that arenanet charges box price and i can BUY character slots for guild wars 2 with in game gold. with swtor i have to spend money to be able to use characters that are already max level beyond picking 2 after a patch theya re putting in and there is a credit cap. i will be sticking with GW2.

FIRST DAY DOWNLOAD

I guess the crew of the TORtanic are...

*Sunglasses*

...Deploying the lifeboats.

Honestly, I'm happy about this, I might finally pick up this game now. Doesn't matter that raids are closed off because I'm more of a single player...for me now I guess this is the closest thing to kotor III I'll get at the moment

For all those saying they should have made KOTOR 3...the game is free now.  Give it a go.  The story is just as good as KOTOR.  I had a few "WHHAAATT?!?!?!" moments during the games story.  I don't play the game anymore mostly because I can't justify paying for a monthly sub when I can only play game casually on weekends.

I'll give this a go.

All for it. The more people playing, the better.

This game was not fun, I enjopyed it for a little bit but then realised it wasn't KOTOR at all there was no decent story ( I did love the start sequence for a jedi that was awesome)

It's saddening to see a great franchise as KotOR like this. Why did you had to make an MMORPG instead of KotOR 3? I have no idea what was Bioware thinking... oh, of course it's the EA mark that destroy's awesome series.