This is called the "height of optimism".

Even GW2 doesnt have DX11 support yet. And it's supposed to be a modern cutting-edge MMO.

EQ2 /10char

Being robbed, lied to and cheated on are very much part of the "Star Wars" experience. So, deal with it.

Q: Can a f2p player upgrade to a p2p player if he wants? Q: If yes, will he get a refund on all things he bought as f2p since now as a p2p member, he gets those things by default anyways? Q. What happens to all his p2p unique stuff when he goes back to f2p again ?

Source ? /10char

None of the haters were advocating f2p model as well. All they wanted was that their 15$ a month be better worth it-- which wasnt for most of them. E.g. repeated bugs which never gets resolved, multiple maintenance downtimes every week, poor customer support, lack of end game -- just to list a few grievances. They just wanted EA to fix those issues so that it's till worth paying $15 a month for it. Instead, EA compromised. ""SWTOR is a miss". We can't invest further into improving all those things that makes it a miss. So, we will make it F2P so that people don't have to deal with getting $15 worth of buggy stuff.

So each content update will cost something extra to buy even for paid subs? Or only for f2p players?

Well, it's still over 9000!

No. Probably the p2p guys will have what they already have right now. The f2p guys will only get a subset of that. e.g. fewer hair style.

Hardly. Not a dev issue at all. It's poor management and business and design decision. Marketing came up with the wrong features for the design team to focus on. Devs have very little to do it since they come way down the pecking order in decision making.

That's because they don't play their own game. If they did, they would have known why it trashed. It started with Gordon Walton choosing Hero Engine and then quitting a year before SWTOR release. Ended with Rich Vogel following suit.

http://www.darthhater.com/articles/swtor-news/21125-electronic-arts-q1-fy13-earnings-call

How will forum access work? I suppose people who are f2p wont get forum write/post access and will get it read_only?

The F2P announcement right at this point is a trap to distract us from the EA call and the actual sub numbers.