Electronic Arts is the mmog Star Wars: The Old Republic free to play. Starting in november, players can choose whether or not against payment, all options are to tap or can live with the limitations of the free version.
In a call with investors was Frank Gibeau, head of the various labels that Electronic Arts carries out, admit that the number of paying players of Star Wars: The Old Republic to under a million is dropped . How many players are wanted Gibeau not disclose, but it is ‘more than a half million,” he said. The decline will the for EA is made easy for a free to play model to choose for the mmog. Gibeau had previously apart from the fact that there are 2 million copies sold of the game. In march the editor was well known that there are 1.7 million players pay for the game. That number was in may, however, already fallen to 1.3 million paying players.
EA is going to SW:TOR from november free offer. The free variation is offered in addition to the current paid version. Players who like the free version choose get certain restrictions imposed. So are all the classes available, but not all races. Furthermore, any players who don’t have a subscription pay to see less Warzones, Flashpoints and Space Missions to participate. Players without a subscription may not participate in the large-scale Operations; furthermore, they can be less virtual items to offer for sale on the auction of the game. Furthermore, paying players have priority when logging on the servers of the game. Players without a subscription can grow to level 50, the highest attainable in the game. This is also the story that each class should play.
As a harbinger of the free to play option will EA in August the purchase price of the game lower it to $ 15. EA decided in July to the first 15 levels of the game free to play.
