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BioWare Considering Making SWTOR Completely Free-To-Play

Posted on Friday, June 15 @ 09:40:55 Eastern by Keri_Honea


BioWare announced at E3 last week that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be free-to-play for the first 15 levels, but this may be just the beginning for the MMO's FTP venturing.

GamesTM interviewed Emmanuel Lusinchi, the lead designer for SWTOR,  and he acknowledged that the free-to-play model was definitely putting on the competitve pressure. “The MMO market is very dynamic and we need to be dynamic as well," Lusinchi said. "Unless people are happy with what they have, they are constantly demanding updates, new modes and situations. So we are looking at free-to-play but I can’t tell you in much detail. We have to be flexible and adapt to what is going on.”

Considering how MMOs are struggling all over, the free-to-play option is probably the smartest for BioWare at this point. It will be interesting to see how far they take it, and if the FTP-model will become an almost mandatory model for any MMO.
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Tags:   BioWare, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Free-To-Play


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  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Jun 15th, 2012 at 9:39 am
    Called it before launch! ;)
    1 0
  • ReinhardtBII
    ReinhardtBII
    Joined: Oct 2007
    Posted: Jun 15th, 2012 at 9:48 am
    Called it before Jonathan
    0 1
  • Ranim
    Ranim
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Jun 15th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
    Aaand another themepark mmo goes f2p, big shock. Why can't the interesting games like EVE have an element of free 2 play?
    0 1
  • Lien
    Lien
    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Jun 15th, 2012 at 10:06 am
    Ok when that happens, let really created a GR guild! I mean we tried to do that but no one came...
    0 0
  • mrallamericanboy
    mrallamericanboy
    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Jun 15th, 2012 at 11:59 am
    i'll open up an account for that...
    0 0
  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Jun 15th, 2012 at 10:18 am
    I'm sorry I'm already part of the thieves guild
    0 0
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jun 15th, 2012 at 10:59 am
    Obvious this is, bring in more players it will, enjoying speaking like this I am.
    0 2
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 6:50 am
    Well stop it. Creepy it is.
    0 0
  • Herb211
    Herb211
    Joined: May 2009
    Posted: Jun 15th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
    Diablo is puttin that pressure out there.
    0 0
  • pennpsu
    pennpsu
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Jun 15th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
    I would play it on a console if it goes FTP. I hate trying to get games to run properly on PC's. On consoles You buy the game and put it in the try, and it runs. everytime.
    2 2
  • ReinhardtBII
    ReinhardtBII
    Joined: Oct 2007
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 1:02 am
    I'll play it on a console when consoles go free to play.
    0 2
  • Andy578
    Andy578
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jun 15th, 2012 at 4:23 pm
    consoles are stone age crap, no thx
    2 1
  • pennpsu
    pennpsu
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 6:06 am
    Yes, and like stone age Crap consoles are easy to use and inexpensive (compared to top flight PC's). That's the appeal
    0 0
  • zeretul
    zeretul
    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 7:12 am
    People are completely overracting to this interview. This is nothing new, SWTOR developers have said this exact same thing from day 1. It's also nothing that Blizzard has not said about WoW several times. Just because you are looking into a model in case you need to switch due to market demands, does not mean there are any plans to switch in the near future.
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