pcmanor Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) It maybe too early to post this, But Lack of people on servers before patch 1.2 rolled out, Problems upon more problems with this being broken and that being broken and now this whole ordeal with the servers today. As subscriber's are dropping like flies because of what is going on today and yes some people that were not happy with the 1.2 update, Has Bio ware let this game slip to far away to keep this game on a paid sub basis? Since day one I seen many things with the game and in game that made me believe they intentionally constructed the game to be a free to play game eventually. Several things come to mind that a customer would have to dish out money for to play in game. Here is 20 things i can think of off hand for a free to play model/ 1. PVP - paying for warzones, paying to basically own them while the game is alive and kicking. 2. world access - access to new worlds, which will most like be in the near future, maybe a world or two very soon. 3. mission access. 4. mounts 5. pets 6. cosmetic and social items 7. capping credit limits, pay to lift the cap 8. skills and heroic type weapons 9. special buffs and med packs 10. crew skills 11. crew missions 12. ship parts 13. ship customization 14. Ship amenities 15. extra character slots 16. extra content 17. expansions ( we are talking the real deal expansions) 18. of course paid character transfers 19. paying to unlock new crew members 20. Misc. gadgets etc. that give you a advantage anyway i am happy with the game, but not the downtime lol. Edited April 13, 2012 by pcmanor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonedzero Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 absolutely not. they can easily do some minor server mergers. boom pop problem solved. other than that theres no real reason to go free2play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabaal Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Original thread is original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanglez Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 http://i44.tinypic.com/2hyyy3p.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trenter Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 It maybe too early to post this, But Lack of people on servers before patch 1.2 rolled out, Problems upon more problems with this being broken and that being broken and now this whole ordeal with the servers today. As subscriber's are dropping like flies because of what is going on today and yes some people that were not happy with the 1.2 update, Has Bio ware let this game slip to far away to keep this game on a paid sub basis? Since day one I seen many things with the game and in game that made me believe they intentionally constructed the game to be a free to play game eventually. Several things come to mind that a customer would have to dish out money for to play in game. Here is 20 things i can think of off hand for a free to play model/ 1. PVP - paying for warzones, paying to basically own them while the game is alive and kicking. 2. world access - access to new worlds, which will most like be in the near future, maybe a world or two 3. mission access. 4. mounts 5. pets 6. cosmetic and social items 7. capping credit limits, pay to lift the cap 8. skills and heroic type weapons 9. special buffs and med packs 10. crew skills 11. crew missions 12. ship parts 13. ship customization 14. Ship amenities 15. extra character slots 16. extra content 17. expansions ( we are talking the real deal expansions) 18. of course paid character transfers 19. paying to unlock new crew members 20. Misc. gadgets etc. that give you a advantage anyway i am happy with the game, but not the downtime lol. Subscribers are dropping like flies now? Did you read that here on the General Forums, or do you have an actual source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiamaraSimi Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 If you think the community is bad now, just imagine how bad it could be when the people who would play JUST to harass people because they could since its free would be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthMintCake Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 NO! This game has ony been around a few months. Give the guys a Bioware a break, most people here have come from long established MMO which are really good now. Think back to how WOW was back in its early days. Give the guys here time and support and all the problems will be sorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtnose Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 No, it would be better to do a server merge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dastrum Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 These threads - Do they need to go away? Absofreakinlutely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossman Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 God no. F2P games give me a permanent migraine :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balrizangor Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Subscribers are dropping like flies now? Did you read that here on the General Forums, or do you have an actual source? You say that like what we read on the general forums, posted by RANDOM_WHINER_10238 isn't 100% the truth !!!!! How dare you !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neoforcer Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) the answer would be hell no if u want free to play go play some other game that has that swtor is just fine as is Edited April 13, 2012 by Neoforcer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordgubben Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Do we need more of these threads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobinator Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 This *********** thread again... Its not going F2P, no one cares about what you want...its doesnt aid Bioware in the end. P2P games that go F2P are *********** stupid and most likely dying so they had to go F2P...not to mention it becomes P2W. So yea...stop it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satanski Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 absolutely not. they can easily do some minor server mergers. boom pop problem solved. other than that theres no real reason to go free2play. What problem is solved? There is no open world pvp and without it, its not mmo and if its not mmo so why monthly fee? In its current state this game should be buy to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilosoldier Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Did the hangups and problems with the deployment of the patch make people go bat #$%^ crazy? Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordHazanko Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 God no. F2P games give me a permanent migraine :| lol well that's what Swtor is doing to many others right now but were all paying for it as well as suffering the migranies. T.T So yes F2P plz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakima Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 This is the second biggest selling north american mmo of all time. So no it doesn't need to go free to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaisernick Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Do we need more of these threads? no we need more of these threds http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=409667 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcmanor Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 I did not say i would like it to be free to play. No i do not want it to be free to play. It was formed in a question not a statement from myself. I was just bored lol. yeah by what i see in the forums and lack of players in game. They have been dropping like flies, until yesterday when I seen over 100 on the fleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irdc Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Why would it go F2P when there are plenty of people willing to pay for it ... ? I mean. Come on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blistrich Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Subscribers are dropping like flies now? Did you read that here on the General Forums, or do you have an actual source? He saw a bunch of forum quit threads and jumped on the bandwagon. /thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Sev Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 these threads - do they need to go away? Absofreakinlutely ^ . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siega Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 By being partly a class story driven game that could have stood as a single player title it is not really fit as a f2p MMO. F2P games usually make the initial catch and bait with levelling, here is a the main point for many before they loose interest -- unless you are exclusively into lvl 50 PvP/PvE. Hard to put a fitting f2p model around that. Unless it went part way, lower the monthly fee and add a marketplace for fluff stuff to decorate your spaceship with, non-combat pets, outrageous outfits and rent-a-priest for spontanous weddings Los Skywalker style Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcmanor Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 I see some are quickly to jump on me for this but oh well lol. Too funny. It was a question on what people thought. Not what I thought about it. As someone in the Designing field there were things that just stood out and screamed I can be locked or unlock just pay the price lol. I am positive things will be picking up soon for this game anyway. Well maybe by christmas of 2012. Summer will be showing it's face and gaming communities population does go down significantly . So yeah 1 year anniversary and expansion, this game will boom again hardcore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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