Repefe Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 No reason. There is GW2, Planetside 2, D3 coming plus LoL, SC2, etc ... mix some single player games inbetween and you can forget about subscription based MMOs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SojournerNC Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 F2P + EA = microtransaction bottomless pit of hell If it goes F2P, I quit and never return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trenter Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Sales mean nothing without recurring subs. GW2 is doomed then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elanthes Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Simply put, people are not mature enough to play free to play games properly. So, no. Not even in a million years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orrow Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 F2P is what companies do to squeeze the last little bit of money out of a game. SWTOR isn't at that point yet, by then end of the year if current trends continue we might see it become a possibility. Then again you also have to realize that EA doesn't like the F2P model, they've said so many times. Look at Warhammer its still not F2P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlacke Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Hell no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Moonshadow Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 GW2 is doomed then. Oh snap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthMintCake Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 WoW back in the day ran circles around the current TOR. You clearly didnt play WOW in the early days then did you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthMintCake Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Sales mean nothing without recurring subs. Have you not seen the ammount of people on the forums and servers. You people are really starting to **** me off, you moan about the game, post on the forums saying you hate it. But in order for you to post you must be on a recurring sub and playing. So either quit *********** moaning or do one away from the game and leave us all in peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadiva Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Despite the fact that i didnt like the "world" of wow i remember the gameplay was much better then tor's. I had hundred times more open world pvp playing wow to level ~35 (a month or two), then i had here from the head start. The only things BW did better is vo qests, lack of grind and gfx. The rest is crap. I'm not sure why you think there would be loads of open world PvP, they've never said it was a PvP focused game. You want open world PvP then go play Dark Age of Camelot, a game that was created for that purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesleyJanson Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Have you not seen the ammount of people on the forums and servers. You people are really starting to **** me off, you moan about the game, post on the forums saying you hate it. But in order for you to post you must be on a recurring sub and playing. So either quit *********** moaning or do one away from the game and leave us all in peace I'm not sure what gives you that impression but you don't need to be currently subbed in order to post on the forums. This has never been the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanthersSolo Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 I'm not sure what gives you that impression but you don't need to be currently subbed in order to post on the forums. This has never been the case. Im pretty sure it is the case now. They did that a while ago. But I do not frequent these forums so I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProthean Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 you do know that after a game comes out, there is always a major decrease in the amount of people who originally signed up, it happened when wow was released, when rift was released, and it happened here. that does in no way mean it has to go f2p, it just means that they will have to merge servers untill they get more subscribers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanthersSolo Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 WoW back in the day ran circles around the current TOR. What? Oh your joking... right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackardin Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 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. As seems to be the norm here, the poster fabricates "facts", then condemns the game for it. LOL Honestly people. The game is basically free to play now. If 15 bucks a month is not chump change to people, they should be working a second job, not playing games. right? Edited April 14, 2012 by Blackardin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackardin Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 WoW back in the day ran circles around the current TOR. Yeah, this is my favorite. I guess they forget that many of us played Wow when they make this stuff up. Wow was a great game, but there are two certainties. It was the same with bugs and have far, far more downtime as a result. Some guy posted his subscription numbers in an attempt to beat this game over the head with it. Even this year they were still giving out compensation time for crashes and bugs, yet people will outright state that it does not exist. Second is that Wow was a disaster at launch. They went down for half a week at one point. People were still falling through the world 4 months into it. Mobs hitting through walls, game crashes, zone crashes, broken quests etc. etc. etc. It is the nature of the game because of the vast amount of code involved. Wow was a great game, this one is too. Take the crap you read on these forums with a grain of salt. Most of it is just not true at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieAlteHexe Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 F2P? Absolutely not. Gawd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mezla Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Technically, with the current promotion, it already is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phenyr Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 It maybe too early to post . No flower its useless post. Go play F2P games if you dont liek this one there are plenty on the market Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamthuraisingam Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 F2P? No way. For one, I've already paid into this franchise and I would despise the latecomer freeloaders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmufc Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 (edited) Serious question Its clear that quite a few EU/ US servers need to be merged, so why are BW so reluctant not to do this at present?, or even give us a rough estimate when this may happen in the future. To merge some servers does not show weakness in the game, there were simply far too many servers at launch. Edited April 14, 2012 by kmufc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khendo Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Please never, ever!! F2P is just an illusion, a soap bubble, smoke in the eyes... for us players, and for game companies as well. It ends with servers full of always fresh new few-hits-players, this gives game companies the illusion they have more players playing the game... but the truth is that very few stick to the game after f2p conversion. MMORPGs players just need continous content delivering to satisfy their (ours ) addiction and keep on subs, just that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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