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

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.

You dont want pay to win but you want to buy raid gear. That makes no sense

This thread reminds me of football players that take off running before they secure the ball.

nothing would make me happier to find out this is false and I am over reacting

sadly because bioware does not care about its customers, it will be suprising if we know anything before the shop turns up on orgin [most likely place for it]

so now there are more rumors about paid content and bioware or E.A. says nothing and takes our money fully knwoing weather or not they plan to support the palyers or gouge them [i'm not so stupid to believe that the buisness model is not already planed out] it scares me they wont address it and makes me think its true and they are waiting till they have as many months worth of subs out of the players before they announce it

It looks like SWTOR has lost quite a few subs that to make up for it, they announced at E3 they will have micro-transactions.

At Last, Free!

As anticipated, EA is opening up its portfolio for free gamers. According to a recent news feed from Reuters, EA is planning to offer at least 15 levels (from July) of its magnum opus, Star Wars: Old Republic for free to play. The company expects that this free offering will boost its dwindling subscriber base going forward. EA lost approximately 400K subscribers in the fiscal fourth quarter. EA expects to earn significant revenue from additional features and through micro-transactions by selling in-game based items.


Source:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ea-sho...143015708.html

I dont know what article you are reading but how can you say its from 2010 when swtor wasnt even out for a year after that? Also it mentions swtor going f2p in july. How did they know that back in 2010?

Sure it does, He just wants to be able to buy gear to be equal to what you could earn in game.

Like for pvp. Say you could pay 40 bucks instead of grinding the gear out for 3 days.

You still end up the same you just skip the grind by paying real life money. You are not stronger, you just get there another way.

I dont know what article you are reading but how can you say its from 2010 when swtor wasnt even out for a year after that? Also it mentions swtor going f2p in july. How did they know that back in 2010?

Yahoo.com is not an official news source, and sometimes their articles aren't edited and looked at with as much scrutiny as you would find in other sources.