What's the point now?

Because like he said, many of us feek the game is going down the drain in November. "Whats the point?"

Im on the same boat actually. Canceled my sub and am back to WoW (though surprisingly enjoying it after such a long time away). Looking forward to MoP even. I planned to give it another month while I finish the last 2 stories I hadnt done yet and say farewell to guildies but ive kinda lost almost all motivation and ambition towards this game and am signing on a quarter of the time now.

perhaps this is also true.....but currently , there is accountabilty for your actions, and getting banned costs you...
once f2p hits...accountability goes out the window and its open season for trolls and griefers...

they may be here, but they are behaving (mostly) , wich wont be the case when they can just open a new account to troll with...
thats not even taking into acount the farmers and gold / credit spammers

Getting banned will cost you pretty much the same then. Considering as to how they'll still need to buy the box. And currently for about 20 Eur you can already buy the box, this price is just going to drop by 25% to around 15 Eur, not much of a difference. Do we currently see a high level of trolling? On the forums sure, but ingame the community aint half bad.

Same goes for gold / credit spammers, they will need to be buying a lot of boxes.

They're still charging $15 for the game due to the copies that are still currently at stores. Give it a few months after F2P and the download itself will be free as well. They just don't want to leave these places with tons of boxed copies that they can't sell.

They're still charging $15 for the game due to the copies that are still currently at stores. Give it a few months after F2P and the download itself will be free as well. They just don't want to leave these places with tons of boxed copies that they can't sell.

And because Bioware decided to lump everyone on to the same servers, there's no getting away from these people. So, as far as I'm concerned, the MMO part of this game is about to die. I won't pay them more money after doing that to the game.

Honestly, this is the same feeling I get with all F2P games. Now, you can either play F2P and be restricted or, you can pay a monthly fee and play with a slew of others that are restricted. Nothing like finding a great tank or healer, asking them if they want to do another FP and them telling you "No, this is the last one I can do for the week". Or something like that. How many ranked matches are you going to get in when half your normal team goes to the F2P model?

Sure, F2P will give EA more money in the bank (if other, lesser games are anything to go by), but what's the point now for us players? Honestly, when I try to play Lotro, DND, etc, I always get that same feeling. That "what's the point?" feeling. Now, since the announcement, I get the same feeling with SWTOR already. All drive to get through my Sorcerer's main quest, or level up my Scoundrel healer just disappeared. At this point, I may not even come back for F2P to finish some of the class stories. Just like with the other F2P games, the drawing power of an active, civil community just goes out the window. Heck, I fired up DnD for the first time ever, had some guy try to invite me to his guide about 8 times in a row, kept calling me a noob and I had to put him on ignore. F2P games are troll bait. Good luck to all fighting said trolls while trying to level their characters in the future....

Has it been verified that the F2P players will be on the same servers? I haven't been keeping up with the news thoroughly. It seems to me the launcher is already segmented to be between subscribers (swtor) and new options that are to be added

If you are paying now (and others are as well) you can make the safe assumption that all people looking for end game content will continue to sub. If they don't and they buy it ala carte, then they are wasting money away.

The game isn't converting to F2P, it is offering a F2P option.

If we want this game to survive in the modern market, there has to be an appeal to gamers who normally wouldn't sub to the game. Its opening the door. We need that in today's environment. Many folks simply won't try something if they know they have to spend $15 a month to play it. But give them a free trial run and they might change their minds.

Up until the announcement, I was still having fun with the game. Since then, every time I log in, I play for 20 minutes and lose all interest. Before, it's like I had a long term goal I was playing for. Now, this game has the same feeling LOTRO has when I play it. It just feels.... temporary. Like I know deep down that there is no actual goal anymore and that I won't be playing for long anyway. Again, that whole "what's the point" feeling. Again, I'm not saying that it should be like this for everyone. It's just how I personally feel about F2P games.


Still though... the class story lines are the best part of the game. If we get to play those for free, I don't see why anyone would continue subbing.