Posts Tagged ‘free to play’
Forbes: Scott Hartsman Interview and the Future of MMORPG – Sub vs. F2P
Scott Hartsman, one time head-man of RIFT, the man with apparently the best dressed photo of all devs on the planet, sat down to have a discussion with Forbes.com. Since RIFT’s launch, RIFT has gone from a full subscription game with no trial to having a Rift-Lite version where you can play the first 20 [...]
Patch 1.6.2 Adds Character Slots to Cartel Market
Patch 1.6.2 hit live servers yesterday, and with it came one addition to the Cartel Market that’s been requested since SWTOR’s free-to-play announcement was first made. Players are finally able to purchase additional character slots! They cost 600 Cartel Coins each and work across multiple servers once purchased. BioWare also increased the total character amount [...]
Jeff Hickman On the Importance of Player Feedback
Recently, Jeff Hickman, Executive Producer of Star Wars: The Old Republic, talked a bit about how important player feedback has been to the BioWare team during the transition to free to play. He cited some examples of just how the team has changed things due to feedback, and talks about future changes that will make [...]
How to get the most value out of your Cartel Coins
With the Cartel Market embedded in our game, I thought I’d better work out what is the best value for your coins. Read on, because I can save you 5 million credits worth! The first thing I did, like everybody else, was to blow all the coins I earned via my subscription on Cartel bags. [...]
SWTOR’s 2nd LiveStream Event Announced
Yesterday BioWare announced the second official SWTOR LiveStream event, which will take place on November 29th at 3:00 PM to 3:00 PM CST. This live stream will cover the upcoming The Ancient Hypergate Game Update as well as the recent free-to-play addition. The team is asking for questions prior to the event. Questions can be [...]
BioWare Launches F2P Trailer
Yesterday BioWare showcased a brand new F2P trailer that gives prospective players quite an impressive view of some of the game’s cutscenes, class story events, space missions, and a hint of what looks like may even be some early scenes from the future Makeb addition. The trailer is being called “A Galaxy of Possibilities.” Keep [...]
New SWTOR Free To Play Video
This is one cool video if your a Star Wars fan and have not played SWTOR this is your chance it free to play all the way up to level 50! Max level the story’s are amazing and the game has 8 full story’s to pick from. The Free-to-Play option is now live! Step into the Star Wars™ universe [...]
Laura Shot Third: Cartel Market Prices
Now that Star Wars: The Old Republic has gone free to play, many players are questioning the worth of items on the Cartel Market. Does it really pay to be a subscriber? Darth Hater recently published an article where they have done a little math and come up with some real life cash value comparisons [...]
FREE TO PLAY Launches Today
STAR WARS™: THE OLD REPUBLIC™ LAUNCHES FREE-TO-PLAY OPTION TODAY Award-Winning MMO from BioWare and LucasArts also adds New Content AUSTIN, Texas – Nov 15, 2012 – BioWare™, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA), and LucasArts announced today that the new, Free-to-Play option for the critically-acclaimed, massively multiplayer online game Star Wars: The Old Republic [...]
Press Release STAR WARS™: THE OLD REPUBLIC™ LAUNCHES FREE-TO-PLAY OPTION TODAY
MEDIA CONTACTS: Alana Logan Senior Publicist Electronic Arts 512-287-7732 alogan@bioware.com Andrew Wong Director of PR Electronic Arts 650-628-2781 anwong@ea.com STAR WARS™: THE OLD REPUBLIC™ LAUNCHES FREE-TO-PLAY OPTION TODAY Award-Winning MMO from BioWare and LucasArts also adds New Content AUSTIN, Texas – Nov 15, 2012 – BioWare™, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. Read More…
SWTOR Free-to-Play Launching November 15th
BioWare announced a release date for Star Wars: The Old Republic’s switch to its free-to-play model yesterday– November 15th is when we’ll be able to experience all the goodies players have been testing out on the PTS. The team is also extending the Rewards Program for past subscribers: Additionally, we are extending the Rewards Program! [...]
SWTOR Free-to-Play is Coming on November 15th
“Today we are excited to announce that the global launch date of the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Free-to-Play option will be November 15, 2012. This release will be simultaneous across all of the territories and countries The Old Republic™ is available. If you’re a paying Subscriber at the launch of the Free-to-Play option on [...]
State of the Game – November 2012
Jeff Hickman, Executive Producer of Star Wars: The Old Republic, issued an official State of the Game post to the SWTOR community yesterday. In it, he addressed many issues that are on players’ minds, including the reasoning for the move to free to play, the fact that content updates were often behind schedule, the amount [...]
Community F2P Questions Answered
Yesterday, Blaine Christine, Sr. Producer of Star Wars: The Old Republic, answered some questions SWTOR’s forum community raised in a thread specifically made for player questions. Most of the answers were recently provided in the announcement of the Preferred Status player model, but there was some new information available in this Q&A of sorts. One [...]
Cartel Market Item and Price Preview
Star Wars: The Old Republic is going free to play this fall with an optional subscription model, and BioWare’s version of the cash shop– the Cartel Market– is currently available for player testing on the PTS. Just in case you haven’t had a chance to check out the different items on the Market, we’ve got [...]
New Preferred Player Status and F2P Changes
Yesterday we received a couple dev tracker posts stating important changes to some of the free-to-play player limitations coming in this fall’s subscription model shift. The first of these is the addition of a third type of subscription group that players can belong to and receive different bonuses in– the preferred status player group. Preferred [...]
A Closer Look at the Crime Lord’s Cartel and Black Market Packs
Players on the test Server received 2400 Cartel Coins today to test new goodies and I decided to use the coins to compare loot in the two different Cartel Packs (the Crime Lord’s Cartel and the Black Market). I’m still really impressed with the randomness of the loot in these packs. Out of the nine [...]
200k Credit Cap For Freepers! Will it Force the Price of Items?
Free to play players (Freepers) will have a credit cap of 200k. Any extra credits made go into an Escrow account that you can see in your inventory. Once the credits have gone into that Escrow account the only way to get them back is to subscribe! If you earn 300K, for example, you can [...]
Cartel Market Now Previewing on PTS
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s big free-to-play model switch is just around the corner, and starting yesterday, players can now preview all the goodies the Cartel Market has to offer on the Public Test Server, as well as provide valuable feedback for the BioWare team. All PTS testers will be granted a temporary sum of [...]
Free-to-Play Insider Preview Video
Today BioWare are excited to release our first episode of the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Free-to-Play Insider Preview. This new video series is your window into the latest news and information on the new Free-to-Play option coming to The Old Republic™ this Fall. The first video provides insight into the features offered to Free-to-Play [...]
Clarification on F2P Subscription Equipment Restriction
On Tuesday, BioWare released some detailed information on the restrictions that free-to-play players will face as opposed to subscription players when Star Wars: The Old Republic goes free to play in November. One part confused quite a few players specifically pertaining to subscription players equipping purple Artifact items. The English text read almost the same [...]
New F2P Information: Cartel Coins Ledger and Model Restrictions
Yesterday, BioWare issued two sources of updated information about the big free-to-play model switch coming this November. First of all, we got a nifty Cartel Coins ledger that can be used to figure out how many complimentary Coins current subscribers will be getting. Secondly, and probably a lot more interesting, we finally received some concrete [...]
Leaked List of Upcoming Content and F2P Goodies
Hidden deep within the files of Game Update 1.4, players found some interesting files and pieces of data about the content BioWare is currently developing. Some of this information seems like it might be in the next major Game Update, and some of it looks like it might be released with the game’s free-to-play model [...]
Gabe Amatangelo on SWTOR’s Free-to-Play Model
Earlier this week, Massively got a chance to interview Gabe Amatangelo, SWTOR’s Principal Lead PvP Designer. During the interview, Game Update 1.4 as well as the game’s fall move to free to play were discussed. Here are his thoughts on the model switch, which follow the original questions in bold: I’m excited for the opportunity [...]
Hints of Changes Found on High Population Test Server
Yesterday, BioWare launched a brand new test server to specifically test some new high population server technology. Remember back in May when the team talked about “mega-servers”? This is that tech. Here is a preview of the news article: In order to provide a better overall gameplay experience we’re getting ready to introduce new high [...]
Laura Shot Third: What’s in a Legacy Name?
So, last week we got an interesting little note in SWTOR’s Patch Notes: “Legacy names are no longer unique. New Legacies that are created are now able to use a name that is already in use on the server. All players will be able to rename their Legacies once, at no cost, in a future [...]
Rewards Announced for Digital Deluxe Players
Last Friday, BioWare updated their Free to Play announcement page with rewards for players who purchased the Digital Deluxe Edition. When SWTOR goes free to play, these players, if their subscriptions are active at the time, will obtain an additional 250 Cartel Coins. This bonus is in addition to any other monthly subscription or current [...]
GamesCom News: Jeff Hickman Interview
Over the weekend during GamesCom, SWTOR Life got a chance to interview Jeff Hickman, Executive Producer of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Hickman talked at length about some of the plans and philosophies behind the game’s model switch to free-to-play. From the sounds of it, the teams at BioWare and EA still have a lot [...]
August 10th F2P Q&A Community Response
Here is this week’s Q&A Community Response, where we take some of last week’s questions and corresponding answers, and provide some of the feedback straight from the community. Make sure and check out the full Q&A posts for all of the questions, because we’re only going to be covering some of the highlights. This week’s [...]
Community Q&A: Free-to-Play Edition – August 10th 2012
Yesterday’s Q&A was a special edition that focuced on many of the questions players had in regards to the recently-announced free-to-play business model switch coming to SWTOR in fall 2012. BioWare also announced that this is the last weekly Q&A we’ll see, and that the team will be discontinuing the community series. This announcement is [...]
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