Star Wars: The Old Republic will be a free-to-play game starting November 15, 2012. While the game, developed by BioWare and published by EA, was generally well reviewed, it hasn’t reached nearly as many customers as the publisher had hoped for. Many pundits believed that EA expected the game to be its World of Warcraft. The Old Republic has had some success, but not that kind of success.
According to the developer, players will be able to reach level 50 without paying a cent. It will be interesting to see if using a free-to-play model gives the game a significant boost in subscribers.
Let’s forget about the dilemmas of mega-publishers for a second and focus on you. Will you give Star Wars: The Old Republic a shot when it becomes free-to-play? Please leave a comment and let me know!
If you haven’t played this, I would like to recommend this game for the story alone. You can’t beat the price to be entertained by a great story. Tremendous value when you consider 2 separate factions each with a few classes.
I’d have continued to sub but I wasn’t interested in end game MMO grinding.
I’ll probably try to finish my smuggler’s story. I left off at level 40 too. So I was close to maxin out too