Stupid F2P Restrictions

This is not LOTRO. Some were so hell-bent on how F2P is the next best thing, that they didn`t read some text, how this is SWTOR and not LOTRO.

Sick of people complaining about restrictions, I've heard more and more people buying top quality machines for £1000 then complaining about having to pay a mere 8.99 for a subscription. Of course there's going to be restrictions that are there so its worth paying the sub fee for bw don't want people to pay for free for nothing! Nothing good in thisworld is free!

See this is the problem when trying to do a hybrid(subs and non-sub) customer base. EA clearly wants you to sub, which means they have to restrict the FTPlayers, and entice you to start subbing. This creates a segregation of the community, and the balancing act of not giving the FTPlayers too much versus punishing them for not subbing becomes a cumbersome task at best, and one that I don't feel EA based on their past business practices are equipped to handle.

Also the free-to-play option seems to be a marketing gimmick to mask the backdoor introduction of Micro-transactions. So even if the FTP option is only marginally successful, they now have MTs as an acceptable feature to further get coin out of subs pockets.

To be honest I was every happy at first hearing of the FTP options, and I had three friends, one who had played the game before and left after 50 and two others who have never played, who were going to start with the FTP option; now after hearing the finer details they have all reconsidered, and as a paying subscriber I don't blame them.

One restriction that i dont like on subs is that you have to buy a stupid pass to wear most purples. I hope that that restriction is not on Tio/Colu/Rakata and BH/Camp/DG gear otherwise i hope it only costs 1k cartel coins or less to buy the stupid pass...

we were talking about flashpoints right? where we run from 1 trashpack to another? it rly won't make a difference at all, since you only have to run a few meters. the sprint is there because of the long runs on low-lvl planets until you get a speeder (as you mentioned youself, but in normal leveling it doesn't affect us subscribers, unless you are helping a f2p player, and in that case, you decide to help/lvl with him so you should cope with it). and if you spend hours in a fp, then you are doing it wrong, i have never been in a fp longer then an hour, even with killing most of the trash and watching cinematics, imo that is not an argument. (and again, you are playing an MMo wich generally is a time-sink )

and to that last question, i have no answer, sorry, i can't find an official statement on that.

So let me get this straight.. when someone offers you a candy bar you don't accept it and say thanks? Instead you whine about it not being the exact kind of candy bar you felt like having? If you don't like the F2P restrictions... PAY for the game. Problem solved.

Personally I invite a F2P option if it means more ppl to play the game with.

Other gamea out their have this also. Cant wear raid or fabled gear in EQ or EQ2 unless subbed. It you convert to f2p from sub your gear is kicked off you and unwearable.

That appears to be a typo, the other language pages have it correct. So either the other language pages have it wrong in a sensible fashion that is consistent with the phrasing of "full access" or the english one has it inconsistent

Frankly it looks like someone cut and paste something and forgot to edit it..

my guess is that the fleet passes from security vendor will stay, since they aren't losing the security keys, i guess the vendors will stay too, with the stuff they sell.

but it's a good question, it made me wonder what would happen if a f2p player gets a security key. will they be able to buy the fleet passes for 1000 creds too?

In fact it is now confirmed that it is a typo:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=544668