Star Wars: The Old Republic

[George]

The details are on news sites. It looks like most end-game content will be locked away unless you pay the currency or a sub fee. Whatever that entails, like PvP arenas and/or raids, is really not specific yet.

[dave is ok]

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

I'm a goddamned Nostradamus.

[Opaque]

Nobody cares about your predictions.

I care.

[Thief Silver]

These idiots are putting at $15 a month though. Jesus christ.

[dave is ok]

What a disaster.

[Yoshi]

It couldn't happen to a better company. You know when I can only make it six months, they're fucked. SWG remains the best MMO ever and probably always will, as the genre as we know it is all but dead.

[dave is ok]

[Timber]

Looking at what you don't get access to (or very limited access) I'll stick with my $13 a month. Although I'd recommend at least trying out the class stories if they're free.

Also, all MMO's are going to go to F2P eventually.

[Diff-chan]

Not necessarily. Many MMOs have no real new content in a long time and even afterwards are very spread out in releases, they're basically just content to run the servers and keep the subscription money that is there coming in. EA is probably still looking to get this thing big again and was probably using the free levels as a test to see what kind of response they would get. It was likely overall very positive to the point where they think they can pull in more customers and make more money using a cash shop than they can having subscription fees.

I'm not privy to EA's financial details (obviously), but I really see no way that this thing turned out to have a positive ROI. Keep in mind a huge chunk of the money they've gotten has been sent over to Lucas.

[dave is ok]

There was a conference call today. Let me see if they mentioned numbers.