F2P - 3 Warzones Per Week LOL

i'm more curious about the effect this will have on those staying subscribed just for PvP.

won't this lessen the number of people queueing up for WZs (due to ineligibility/capped limits), leading to longer queue times?

Problem?

Imo f2p should not hace access to class stories Past act 1. Only miscellaneous quests later on. Story is, afterall, the most important, expensive aspect of TOR most subscribers decided to buy the game for!

There should be no restriction for F2P to do anything. Do BW not understand the F2P model at all? All they did with this was extend the free trial a bit its still a subscription game really.
With F2P you only should be paying for stuff like xp boosts maybe a boost to make mobs drop more credits and of course visual changes to your armour hair make up piercings whatever lol. With this "F"2P theyre launching at the min its absolutely not going to bring anyone back into the game for an extended period at all at best it may coax a few new subs who may or may not stick it out. A cynic would say this is just EA/BW/Whoever trying to squeeze a few more dollars out of the game without thinking about its long term survival as an MMO cause there is no way with this model that the game is going to survive

3 a week is good for me, lucky they get that for FREE! SWTOR isn't F2P, it has a F2P option... tiny difference.

Absolutely wrong. What you just described is a free trial not a F2P game, a free2play game is just that- Free 2 Play. With money being made on superficial things like skins and then xp/cash boosts etc. I suppose that is too much of a risk for them to take though as really I cant imagine there are enough things to purchase to make that viable. A better approach to this would be to put more money into getting things like the infamous cloak down ingame and then charging for it, then adding more things like purchasable haircuts emotes armour skins speeders and whatever other creative stuff that can be thought up. Instead they are extending the free trial in an attempt to bring new people in and pretending its a free to play game

Were this a Facebook game I could see it. But it isn't. Not even close. Giving away free and unfettered access to the entire game's content while expecting Cartel coin shop purchases to provide sustainable ROI is as unreasonable as a pub giving away their entire food & beverage menu ... then expecting to make their money back from juke boxes and face painting.

LoL seems to manage? Or is SWTOR not strong enough of a game to be able to count on that many people buying that much face paint while playing it?

Fortunately SWTOR is a strong enough entity that it doesn't have to rely on face paint promotions. Though I'd easily pay $5.00 per toon for STO-level character customization. But I digress.

In TOR's case, F2P is middle ground between Free Trial and full subscription. A subscription migration path if you will. Free trial players who like it but want to see more than level 15 (as well as the ability to trade with players among other things) can go the F2P route for a larger sample. If they like it enough after seeing how much more of the game there is than F2P provides, then the process is in place to help them consider subbing. If they don't like it, no harm no foul. If they do like it, then paying 4 bits (50¢) a day for an unlimited access subscription is just a few mouse clicks away.

Pretty savvy actually.

Uhh, it's free. Their needs to be horrendous restrictions. How can someone who is not paying a cent complain about what they are getting for free?

People not paying anything to play do not get to complain about what's givin to them. What more? Open up the O'l wallet.

Complaining about something that is free is just amazing.