If SWTOR goes free to play it may save the ship from exploding

F2P would be horrible for SWTOR.

Lol at all the people saying LOTRO isn't pay to win. It most certainly is.
-You can completely change the legacies on your legacy weapons and increase their level through the Turbine store.
-You have to spend Turbine points to unlock deed slots.
-You have to spend points to even experience some content.
-Crafting recipes and mats can be bought with Turbine points.
-Fastest mounts in the game can be bought with Turbine points.
-etc, etc, etc

How is this not pay to win? With enough Turbine Points and little effort you can get almost anything in that game.

Totally agree.

I'm glad you're not a marketing stategist.

The day this game goes Free to play is the day I unsub and uninstall.

Guarenteed.

To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if a Space Expansion came out and cost money. SWTOR could go f2p and put in an item shop, or SWTOR could simply put all those items in the next X-pac and it would amount to the same thing.

The real issue is how does a company take your money whilst keeping you happy about it.

Why do I feel like it's always little kids who are having a hard time getting their parents to pay the subscription that make these F2P posts? Hmm. Probably because that's exactly the case.

Thanks for giving me a laugh with your "games shouldn't always be about making money" post. I guess he thinks that Bioware, LucasArts, EA get an allowance like he does.

I would say "As soon as 15.00 per month does not give me access to everything that the rest of the player base has access to, that is the day that I cancel my account.".

Even if it went to a hybrid F2P, but everything that is available in the game (at that time) cost only 15.00 oer month, I would stay. As soon as they add *extras* that increase character performance for cash, then I leave. I would be ok with extra "fluff" like expanded looks for armor and weapons costing more cash (if and only if it was already a hybrid), but that is just me. I care much less than most people I know about the look of my toon.

What Bad Press?!? every LEGIT gaming publication has given this game high scores, the only people bashing it are basically glorified bloggers with there wanna be gaming sites that nobody has heard of....

Going Pay to win is a fail IMO and only happens in MMO's when their populations drop below 100k players.... SWTOR is hardly at that point, their biggest issue is they need to merge servers ASAP.... All the QQ'ing when the game came out about waiting in Que's forced Bioware to put to many servers out, although this has happen to all MMO's...

is going "F2P" totally out of the question? No.

But is it feasible so long as there are 500k-1million subscribers? No.
The game is still selling alot of boxes on origin and the retail shelf. Until you stop seeing SWTOR on GameStop/BestBuy shelves, the game will not go F2P. At this point, going F2P would piss the existing player base off. They are doing a work around by having free weekends every other week.

I hope you guys realize, to this day, EQ and Asherons call still demand a $14.99 subscription fee. Yes Everquest also went to free to play, after 12+ years of financial and critical success. The game still needs $14.99 a month if you want to enjoy the entire game.

I prefer subscription were I know what my cost is and I am not competing with people buying xp boosts better equipment or powers etc. I don't want to have to buy the next update . Free to play and forced pvp on pve servers are pretty much the only reasons I can see motivating me to leave.

I will never play a F2P MMO.

I prefer a subscription format because it is more pure.

We all pay our flat rate and we all get whatever we earn in game, not by how much money we spend.

Our character's are built by how much time we spend on them, not how much money we spend on them.