Confirmed: SWTOR to have micro-transactions/in-game purchases

Buying raid gear IS a pay to win model. It would be buying a piece of gear that gave you an advantage. No MMO curently does that and I don't imagine this one will be any different. If you can buy gear at all it would probably purely cosmetic, certainly without stats.

I checked Yahoo's sources. This isn't credible.

The guy who wrote the article was citing an investment report dated 3/10/2010. That was more than 2 years ago, and in terms of the source of the information, the report was created by an outside company.

None of his other sources support the claims made, although I don't doubt that there will be some form of micro-transactions in the future.

Take the article with a grain of salt.

UMM yes thay do have the pay to win model. STO sells the best ships at the C-Store, and Battlestar Galactica online is all about selling cubits so you can upgrade. I've seen people spend thousands in BGO. Big Point has the micro transaction art mastered....more like macro transactions there.

I just hope that if EA does this its limited to fluff.

So you have the official figures do you or are you guestimating, and fatman is the entire game is it. And this is a lucas arts EA game, if this ends up with 500k subscribers it will have an epic expantion, you just have to look at the stuff thats come from patchs to see that.

And EA is a bigger fish then just bioware, everyone has layed off staff including blizzard. And if you want to look for warning signs from anywhere look at no blizzcon and vivienda considering selling blizzard activision.

Par for the course, unfortunately. Some news services do repackage news drawing from old sources. Not a huge deal, but to the hypersensitive contingent here? Earth shattering.

Also, I'd like to add that press releases of any type aren't necessarily indicative of the final outcome. Let me be clear, I'm not saying they are blatant lies based on the companies own self interest. I am saying that they have a goal in mind with the press release and those goals can and do change. While a cash shop may have made sense with the game was the darling of the discriminate gamer, it may not make sense now.

You just watch the numbers. We used to have 230 as good number on fleet,

Then it got to the point where we never broke 170 which was about when I stopped play, Even thought we were contantly getting people talking about how they just re-rolled to our surver, We should have been going up with the amount of people comming over.

On xfire SW:ToR used to have about 15% of the total play time for MMOs, They now have 5% in a given day.

The numbers are not exzact but sighns point to a pretty big drop

Omg again with this. How the heck is this from 2010 when #1 this game didnt even exist then. #2 how did they know somehow at E3 they would announce f2p? How would they know anything about E3 2012. For pete's sake read the article my good man.

I don't seem to recall wow going to f2p to 20 until what, 5+ years into it's life?

Small difference, but it's ok, you're good at ignoring things.

I don't think we should be comparing this game to WoW, in any way, unless we're also willing to point out the fact that this game is on par with wow from 2006. Which wasn't f2p to 20 I might add. And also wasn't busy transmerging.

You're right about one thing though, delusional is all over this piece.

I don't remember them ever saying anything about micro-transactions or an in-game store. And this isn't going free to play more like a extended demo as you can play the full game until your character reaches lvl 15 at which point you have to pay the subscription fee to continue leveling your character.

Lets look at this from this perspective shall we, we all know that people came to the game and wanted specific features and left until those were in, some others left simply to wait for more content like ranked pvp. The main features people wanted were group finder, xfers and ranked pvp and those are coming.

So without those features the active played hours will have dropped as it quality of life people were wanting, nothing todo with quality of the game just the access they had within it.

There is another sect of people who came from swg and want to have the sandbox feeling they had there and whilst they might not have it now there is every chance they will have in the future even if not to the full degree they want.

But lets look at the market, WoW is putting all its eggs on pandas and the new talents system, now alot of people dont like the talents but are willing to try it simply because they are locked into annual subs and the fact they have so many years investied into wow. Then we have the whole real money market which no one knows how you pay tax on it which should scare everyone.

Add to this D3 has been majorly hacked to the point where on the phone support it has its own section and department to sort it out. With this vivienda considering selling blizzard, thats not just wow, thats starcraft, diable and the secret titan project which doesnt say alot about the new titan project.