p2p vs f2p

That's the thing. If an MMO can retain all game elements while being F2P that would be great (i.e. where the cash shop offers no real combat advantage).

My personal opinion is that if this game did for F2P it would increase numbers definitely because this would be the best one. It's Star Wars, the fan base is huge and more popular than anything LOTRO, Age of Conan, or DCUO would release. People would at least play the 1-50 quests for all 8 classes. They are really good and supply lots of game play hours regardless if you do anything multiplayer. And still, I don't know how to express this enough, but this game is based on the Star Wars Universe.

If SWTOR decided to do what GW2 promises, then I would still pick SWTOR simply because I'm more interested in this universe. Like how I chose WoW over EQ2. I played WC II & III so that universe caught my taste more.

Heh, and just watch where that will go.

That's buy to play.. BIG difference.

Indeed.

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I don't know. If it was done ala LOTRO, I might. I've not played a lot of F2P games but I tend to shy away from them to begin with. LOTRO was an exception since I was already playing it when they went to that model. It didn't affect me one bit so I didn't mind.

Just would depend upon HOW they did the F2P for me to say definitively.

Yes, but I prefer P2P. Both the players' - including my own - and the publisher's commitment tends to be greater in P2P. I've never found the same kind of communities and as active guilds in F2P games as in P2P games.

I guess the real question, when it comes right down to it is:

Is SW:TOR worth the $15 bucks a month?

For me, yup. No doubt. At least for the foreseeable future.