Bioware "looking at Free to Play" for TOR (told you so )

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/15/bioware-looking-at-free-to-play-for-the-old-republic

and thats something that SOMEDAY it WILL happen , you like it or not :P HA luls

Bu-But.....itz da WoW killa:?

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

DO IT! I need a good F2P mmo to play

Then I'll actually play it. I don't pay monthly fees to play any game. Heil68

Good, I'd like to try ToR.Badosh

Good, I'd like to try ToR.Badosh

[QUOTE="Badosh"]Good, I'd like to try ToR.Animal-Mother

do u get your characters full story by then?

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="Badosh"]Good, I'd like to try ToR.finalfantasy94

do u get your characters full story by then?

I don't know what the big "gotcha" people on the interwebs are tlaking about actually is...

Almost every MMO dev has seen their profit margins skyrocket when going F2P.

If you think selling 2.5 million units of the game, plus having a good 8 months of subscription fees coming in for 1.4 million hasn't ALREADY covered their devleopment and marketing costs, you're crazy.

They are ALREADY making a profit on this game. They have not failed, except in that their numbers aren't what they would have hoped.

Going F2P will increase their player base 3 fold (I know I will go bakc to it at that point - it wasn't a bad game, just wasn't worth $15 a month for me) and if they cna doa good job monitizing it (and relaly they just have to borrow a page form the guys doing ti right like TF2 and LOL), they can easily make a heck of a profitable and popular MMO.

But people on the internet who know jack all about the biz swear up and down that they somehow failed.

You don't have to be 12 million strong as an MMO to make a nice profit. WOW isn't makign a nice profit. It's making the frigging national budget of smallish COUNTRY.

Or in other words, you don't have to be a COD to make a profit.

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="Badosh"]Good, I'd like to try ToR.finalfantasy94

do u get your characters full story by then?

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="Badosh"]Good, I'd like to try ToR.finalfantasy94

do u get your characters full story by then?

PC - The platform of free 2 playz

It's depressing.

PC - The platform of free 2 playz

It's depressing.

parkurtommo

PC - The platform of free 2 playz

It's depressing.

parkurtommo

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] well starting in july it's going F2P up to lvl 15. Which is a good 10-15 hours. At least for me it wasInconsistancy

do u get your characters full story by then?

[QUOTE="Badosh"]Good, I'd like to try ToR.Animal-Mother

[QUOTE="Badosh"]Good, I'd like to try ToR.Animal-Mother

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="Badosh"]Good, I'd like to try ToR.the-obiwan

I don't know what the big "gotcha" people on the interwebs are tlaking about actually is...

Almost every MMO dev has seen their profit margins skyrocket when going F2P.

If you think selling 2.5 million units of the game, plus having a good 8 months of subscription fees coming in for 1.4 million hasn't ALREADY covered their devleopment and marketing costs, you're crazy.

They are ALREADY making a profit on this game. They have not failed, except in that their numbers aren't what they would have hoped.

Going F2P will increase their player base 3 fold (I know I will go bakc to it at that point - it wasn't a bad game, just wasn't worth $15 a month for me) and if they cna doa good job monitizing it (and relaly they just have to borrow a page form the guys doing ti right like TF2 and LOL), they can easily make a heck of a profitable and popular MMO.

But people on the internet who know jack all about the biz swear up and down that they somehow failed.

You don't have to be 12 million strong as an MMO to make a nice profit. WOW isn't makign a nice profit. It's making the frigging national budget of smallish COUNTRY.

Or in other words, you don't have to be a COD to make a profit.

Kinthalis

They talking about how it failed to dethrone WoW, a good chunk of people hyped it as that. Man, this makes me reminisce about how Warhammer Online was suppose to dethrone WoW, Age of Conan was supposed to do the same.

I bet you, some delusional fanboys are going to scream how Elder Scrolls Online is going to dethrone it. I don't play mmorpgs, but damn, WoW is a one time wonder. This huge ass cash cow has become embedded in contemporary human culture.

[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"][QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

do u get your characters full story by then?

Animal-Mother

All MMO's are just single player 'til max level anyway... just really really bad ones, while this one is just about acceptable 'til you hit 20.

I think that BioWare had a pretty good idea though, it's just not executed well at all.

All MMO's are just single player 'til max level anyway... just really really bad ones, while this one is just about acceptable 'til you hit 20.

I think that BioWare had a pretty good idea though, it's just not executed well at all.

All MMO's are just single player 'til max level anyway... just really really bad ones, while this one is just about acceptable 'til you hit 20.

I think that BioWare had a pretty good idea though, it's just not executed well at all.

[QUOTE="parkurtommo"]

PC - The platform of free 2 playz

It's depressing.

the-obiwan

[QUOTE="the-obiwan"][QUOTE="parkurtommo"]

PC - The platform of free 2 playz

It's depressing.

parkurtommo

They already made way more $$$ than if they put out KOTOR 3 so whatever.

They already made way more $$$ than if they put out KOTOR 3 so whatever.

GD1551

[QUOTE="GD1551"]

They already made way more $$$ than if they put out KOTOR 3 so whatever.

the-obiwan

You don't know that. TOR's biggest downfall as far as I'm aware is the lack of end game content and it's extreme familiarity to WoW. Had they worked on those issues they may have just kept growing.

Not too surprising.

New subscription MMOs are odd to me. They all seem to think they can get like multi-million subscribers despite the fact that none of them have and nobody builds them for <1M subscribe survivability. Either that or there's an obvious plan of get who ever is willing to buy a lifetime subscription or pay monthly for however many months we can string that along before switching to F2P.

Anyways, I wish they'd put this out on PS3 or Xbox.

[QUOTE="the-obiwan"][QUOTE="GD1551"]

They already made way more $$$ than if they put out KOTOR 3 so whatever.

GD1551

You don't know that. TOR's biggest downfall as far as I'm aware is the lack of end game content and it's extreme familiarity to WoW. Had they worked on those issues they may have just kept growing.

you can make a poll of what people actually wants : Tor or Kotor 3 and see how that turns out.the-obiwan

Gaming forums rarely give accurate polls. If I put up COD vs The last of US we all know TLOU is going to win, but in the real world COD is infinitely more wanted.

[QUOTE="the-obiwan"]

you can make a poll of what people actually wants : Tor or Kotor 3 and see how that turns out.GD1551

Gaming forums rarely give accurate polls. If I put up COD vs The last of US we all know TLOU is going to win, but in the real world COD is infinitely more wanted.

[QUOTE="the-obiwan"]

you can make a poll of what people actually wants : Tor or Kotor 3 and see how that turns out.GD1551

Gaming forums rarely give accurate polls. If I put up COD vs The last of US we all know TLOU is going to win, but in the real world COD is infinitely more wanted.

Then I'll actually play it. I don't pay monthly fees to play any game. Heil68

I played it for about 2 months. It got very old. Not enough content. Hopped into Tera soon after it and loving that far more.

[QUOTE="the-obiwan"][QUOTE="parkurtommo"]

PC - The platform of free 2 playz

It's depressing.

parkurtommo

Then buy something from an ingame store. Problem solved.

[QUOTE="parkurtommo"][QUOTE="the-obiwan"] not entirelyIcarian

Then buy something from an ingame store. Problem solved.

all the hype for this game

[QUOTE="GD1551"]

[QUOTE="the-obiwan"]

you can make a poll of what people actually wants : Tor or Kotor 3 and see how that turns out.the-obiwan

Gaming forums rarely give accurate polls. If I put up COD vs The last of US we all know TLOU is going to win, but in the real world COD is infinitely more wanted.

I'm just saying ,many people here, infact the majority from what I've seen have a negative stance on MMOs.

Bioware is really starting to become the joke of the gaming industry.

Stringerboy

DO IT! I need a good F2P mmo to play

EPaul

This isn't the game you're looking for. *waves hand*

Not joking, its not good at all >.>