Not sure what you're talking about. The game hasn't changed for me at all since I've been subbinged since release. Yes , there is the Cartel Martket, but if I only subbed and never looked at the Cash shop, the game will still be the exact same for me.
However, I like the cash shop, I'm not going to spend a bunch of money on hit, maybe an extra 15$ or so a month. I love the items I have gotten, especially my Sith Throne mount. I feel like a powerful sith crossed with Professor X.
I think they did a good job. With it all.
Correction: Your parents will be paying an extra $15 a month, not you. Anyone who knows the worth of money wouldn't even bother with this game or any F2P game.
You assume that only young people play SWTOR? You are very wrong. There are plenty of us, who actually earn money and can play for our entertaintment
I wouldnt say f2p ruined swtor, the way the game was created made it ruin itself. If it was a good mmo overall (by covering the aspects/system it lacks) it wouldn't have had to go f2p in the first place.
Originally posted by nacario I wouldnt say f2p ruined swtor, the way the game was created made it ruin itself. If it was a good mmo overall (by covering the aspects/system it lacks) it wouldn't have had to go f2p in the first place.
The problem was the sort of huge cash grab EA was hoping for simply only happened for one game at a time when...well look at my sig.
They should have been much more modest with their budget and not set their expectations so high. No MMORPG is going to come in as P2P and get the numbers WoW did.....it just is not going to happen.
Not sure what you're talking about. The game hasn't changed for me at all since I've been subbinged since release. Yes , there is the Cartel Martket, but if I only subbed and never looked at the Cash shop, the game will still be the exact same for me.
However, I like the cash shop, I'm not going to spend a bunch of money on hit, maybe an extra 15$ or so a month. I love the items I have gotten, especially my Sith Throne mount. I feel like a powerful sith crossed with Professor X.
I think they did a good job. With it all.
Correction: Your parents will be paying an extra $15 a month, not you. Anyone who knows the worth of money wouldn't even bother with this game or any F2P game.
Was it really necessary to flame him based on your assumption? take your venom out on game all you like but why attack the players?
The way you reply to him says more abour your age than his.
I find legacy to be one of the most appealing aspects of the game, and I'm glad they've opened it up earlier. You still have to pay for the perks. I personally focused on the shp upgrades (mailbox, repair droid, GTN).
SWTOR continues to be a great game, and f2p just makes it better.
Wait, what?
You can now get those upgrades to you ship?
That is something that bothered me a lot.
Any other upgrades, and what kind of effort does it take to accomplish?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Originally posted by Jerek_
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I find legacy to be one of the most appealing aspects of the game, and I'm glad they've opened it up earlier. You still have to pay for the perks. I personally focused on the shp upgrades (mailbox, repair droid, GTN).
SWTOR continues to be a great game, and f2p just makes it better.
Wait, what?
You can now get those upgrades to you ship?
That is something that bothered me a lot.
Any other upgrades, and what kind of effort does it take to accomplish?
you were always able to get these upgrades with your legacy. That did not change with F2P. It's pretty pricy though.
These are convenience perks. Most of other MMOs have these kind of stuff available for players too... like mailbox in house in EQ2. Not sure what it is that is bothering you about them.
Not sure what you're talking about. The game hasn't changed for me at all since I've been subbinged since release. Yes , there is the Cartel Martket, but if I only subbed and never looked at the Cash shop, the game will still be the exact same for me.
However, I like the cash shop, I'm not going to spend a bunch of money on hit, maybe an extra 15$ or so a month. I love the items I have gotten, especially my Sith Throne mount. I feel like a powerful sith crossed with Professor X.
I think they did a good job. With it all.
I agree. There is no change in gameplay with f2P. The only thing that changed is that you can got some cool stuff with CC.
I love the game even more right now.
Legacy has changed. which is what the thread is all about
Is there an official post detailing these changes? If not, then I bet there are some other changes that have not yet been discovered. You need to play more
The only change to legacy is that you now get it at level 10, chich is actually a very good change in my opinion. It allows you to try more alts and not work on just one until end of chapter 1. The other change is that you can purchase stuff in legacy for credits or CC if you wish to. One more change is that you can unlock the HK-51 after you do the quest on first character. Did I miss anything else?
Dunno, but pity you did not say that to begin with, instead of saying there were no changes, when there were
Just will have to wait for them to update F2P to unlock more char slots. Can not play the game until they do.
These are minor changes and for better. You guys are unbelievable. You want to bash the game so badly, you will find a hole in the whole.
F2P ruins all P2P games really, except maybe STO which can be played a lot without paying anything, but at least other games gone F2P are more playable via F2P, than SWTORs F2P.
You say you can get more cool things with CC. I'd rather get more cool things by playing the game from more content.
Until they allow more slots in F2P then the Legacy system is pointless in F2P.
I did not expect they are actually going to make you pay for action bars and restrict you to 5 pvp games a week with no ability to purchase full pvp unlock from market !
Originally posted by DEXA88 I did not expect they are actually going to make you pay for action bars and restrict you to 5 pvp games a week with no ability to purchase full pvp unlock from market !
some of that is probably to combat farmers etc, thing have to remember, is that its a microtransaction based game now, you can bypass most of it by subbing, but if you don't sub, then you will have to pay a certain amount on a regular basis for certain types of gameplay, and as PVP and Operations etc are considered to be 'endgame' you are encouraged to sub for them, or be prepared to pay, and pay, and pay to do them, and still have reduced rewards from them too, awesome, F2P in SW;TOR is more of an unlimited trial, if you look at it in that sense then the game won't disappoint too much, and if by chance you like playing it, then go P2P, simples.
Not sure what you're talking about. The game hasn't changed for me at all since I've been subbinged since release. Yes , there is the Cartel Martket, but if I only subbed and never looked at the Cash shop, the game will still be the exact same for me.
However, I like the cash shop, I'm not going to spend a bunch of money on hit, maybe an extra 15$ or so a month. I love the items I have gotten, especially my Sith Throne mount. I feel like a powerful sith crossed with Professor X.
I think they did a good job. With it all.
It has changed, and has changed for all, but if you have already unlocked legacy, and do not plan on doing it again, then you will not see this change. I wonder what the new requirements are, and what other things have been compromised / dumbed down?
The Legacy system is SWTORs main feature.
For those who spent loads of time on Legacy, when could have done something else, does it now not make you mad that if you waited, you need not have spent so much time levelling legacy?
I didnt spend any extra time on legacy. I just levelled my characters like normal and ..bam....I was eligible as soon as it was put in game. I really don't see your point as much of a bother.
As far as why Legacy unlocks earlier..thats simply because there are a shite-ton of legacy unlocks in the Cartel store...and they want our money. Kinda shitty and greedy but still really doesnt affect playing except to give us another method to unlock the "perks". Granted..most of the perks suck anyway but I'd much rather unlock them in the store as I want them..if not..just continue playing until they unlock themselves or I feel like spending credits. Notice I said "want"..because we really don't need any of the stuff.
Personally I enjoy the option and will really enjoy buying a Cartel pack from time to time to get some neat little things like speeders..emotes..armor. Got a cool speeder already and a trinket that makes my eyes glow red for 60 seconds with a short cooldown. Another piece of armor that is an invisible chestpiece that can be modded....so it looks lik you're bare chested..lol.
Not sure what you're talking about. The game hasn't changed for me at all since I've been subbinged since release. Yes , there is the Cartel Martket, but if I only subbed and never looked at the Cash shop, the game will still be the exact same for me.
However, I like the cash shop, I'm not going to spend a bunch of money on hit, maybe an extra 15$ or so a month. I love the items I have gotten, especially my Sith Throne mount. I feel like a powerful sith crossed with Professor X.
I think they did a good job. With it all.
It has changed, and has changed for all, but if you have already unlocked legacy, and do not plan on doing it again, then you will not see this change. I wonder what the new requirements are, and what other things have been compromised / dumbed down?
The Legacy system is SWTORs main feature.
For those who spent loads of time on Legacy, when could have done something else, does it now not make you mad that if you waited, you need not have spent so much time levelling legacy?
I didnt spend any extra time on legacy. I just levelled my characters like normal and ..bam....I was eligible as soon as it was put in game. I really don't see your point as much of a bother.
As far as why Legacy unlocks earlier..thats simply because there are a shite-ton of legacy unlocks in the Cartel store...and they want our money. Kinda shitty and greedy but still really doesnt affect playing except to give us another method to unlock the "perks". Granted..most of the perks suck anyway but I'd much rather unlock them in the store as I want them..if not..just continue playing until they unlock themselves or I feel like spending credits. Notice I said "want"..because we really don't need any of the stuff. Personally I enjoy the option and will really enjoy buying a Cartel pack from time to time to get some neat little things like speeders..emotes..armor. Got a cool speeder already and a trinket that makes my eyes glow red for 60 seconds with a short cooldown. Another piece of armor that is an invisible chestpiece that can be modded....so it looks lik you're bare chested..lol.
"I didnt spend any extra time on legacy. I just levelled my characters like normal and ..bam....I was eligible as soon as it was put in game"
"As far as why Legacy unlocks earlier..thats simply because there are a shite-ton of legacy unlocks in the Cartel store...and they want our money"
Those comments are exactly my point!
This change makes me feel like not playing any more, as I have now unlocked now without playing the game. This change has robbed me of upcoming gameplay, which is not hard as you pointed out and can get there soon enough. It was only changed so EA can now rob you of more money.
I would rather play the game, than pay the game, for all what the Cartel Shop offers.
The things that the Cartel Shop should offer, is more character slots as it opens up more gameplay, but it does not do.
I find legacy to be one of the most appealing aspects of the game, and I'm glad they've opened it up earlier. You still have to pay for the perks. I personally focused on the shp upgrades (mailbox, repair droid, GTN).
SWTOR continues to be a great game, and f2p just makes it better.
Wait, what?
You can now get those upgrades to you ship?
That is something that bothered me a lot.
Any other upgrades, and what kind of effort does it take to accomplish?
you were always able to get these upgrades with your legacy. That did not change with F2P. It's pretty pricy though.
These are convenience perks. Most of other MMOs have these kind of stuff available for players too... like mailbox in house in EQ2. Not sure what it is that is bothering you about them.
I quit when the only legacy perk was a surname, fairly certain there was nothing else you got from legacy back then.
What was bothering me was that there was NOT these things on your ship.
These upgrades is good "news", to me.
I did try to login and play f2p but as a lvl 50 trooper the limits put on f2p made it if not impossible at least very hard to play.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Originally posted by Jerek_
I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I think it is cool that almost everyone that I know of that started with F2P has subscribed during the weekend.
PvP pops often and the flashpoints from time to time, mainly due to lack of healers or tanks as in any other game.
I do not see how F2P has ruined anything, the game is more alive then it has been for months
F2P should get you all the stuff that subbers get, but overall costs more than $15, but where it works out cheaper is that you do not have to spend on stuff you do not want to play. No it shouldn't.
I think it is cool that almost everyone that I know of that started with F2P has subscribed during the weekend.
PvP pops often and the flashpoints from time to time, mainly due to lack of healers or tanks as in any other game.
I do not see how F2P has ruined anything, the game is more alive then it has been for months
F2P should get you all the stuff that subbers get, but overall costs more than $15, but where it works out cheaper is that you do not have to spend on stuff you do not want to play. No it shouldn't.
Why not, when F2P costs more? That is the point. Subbers get most stuff in effect for free, F2P people have to pay for stuff.
If you are not paying for it and game is completely free then I agree that you should not get what subbers get.
To get everything that subbers gets, it costs $28 per month instead of $15.
I don't think a lot of subscribers realize how much FTP (cash shop really) has already affected SWTOR's overall game design.
Here's my roughshod list of how it has already affected ToR. (Remember, they've been designing around the cash shop since Spring.)
1.) Content withholding. -
A] Since Spring they've only realiased (and that's including 1.5) 2 Operations and 1 companion.
B] Remember, that companion quest line was in game at Beta. As a part of their string out the subscribers/figure out a way to monetize everything, HK-51 was withheld. (His preview video was out in what June?)
C] The new unrealesed warzone Hypergates has been in playable form since August at E3 is still unrealeased. BW has said it will be in the next patch. That's 4 months of holding on to it.
D] Cathar- The Cathat have been ready, and previewed since June. They have been withheld until the cash shop was up to sell them to you.
2.) Restricting Itemization
A] High end gear since the descion to switch to FTP has just been reskins of previous gear. By withholding gear, it makes the gear hidden within the $4.00 lockboxes more attractive on FTP release.
B] Withholding a wide array of gear that was available in Beta. This gear which was seen over a year ago now, is still unreleased. Expect to see it in new rounds of lock-boxes. (Which is funny since they will say, "Look what we've been up" when tat gear was created over a year ago.
3.) Makeb
A] Makeb is being withheld as a paid mini-expansiion. This is exceptionally greedy because it was oriinally intended as a major Patch release (as in no extra money to play). Makeb has been ready since May, but will now be sold to everyone, FTP and subber as a mini-expansion.
4.) Legacy
A] Here is where design as been directly affected by the cash shop. BW has stated that Legacy is their greatest feature and will receive their primary focus. Well now you know why Legacy pre-FTP was such a mooney sink. As it stands, Legacy perks are available aither by paying millions per perk, or an instant purchase of about $4.00 per perk in the cash shop. Guess which BW hopes you purchase. Expect to see many, many new Legacy perks in the future.
In summary: Since deciding to switch to FTP (Who's primary purpose was the addition of the cash shop) Bioware has withheld, Makeb, Hk-51, Hypergate Warzone, the Cathar, and all the gear that was in Beta. Since the decision to switch to FTP, their decimated staff has designed no new content, just reeasing content which was already in the pipeline.
Bioware intends to sell the Makeb patch as a mini-expansion, sell Cathat race unlocks, and put all the varied gear designed since before launch into lock-boxes.
In lieu of new content, Bioware will contiinue to add to its altaholic Legacy perk system. Those perks will now be obtainable by either grinding out million upon millions of credits, or purchasing them directly fro the cash shop.
When you can't get more money from more subscribers, you attempt to get more money per remaining subscriber.
If Bioware will be succesful in doing this, we shall see. Bioware is putting its faith in its remaining playerbase being content with no real new content and paying for cash shop purchases many times over what they already pay as a monthly sub.
The FTP option, is nothing but a tack on to garner a modicum of publicity, allow EA to stop reporting subs, but most importantly to Bioware, to sell, sell, sell micro-transactions in its cash shop. I base the FTP as nothing more then a ruse in that the restrictions are purposively unbearable, the servers are not designed for either the initial FTP rush or any real vast increase in players, there has been virtually no marketing campaign for the FTP switch.
Think about, why spend money on advertising when your customer already knows about the new product. SWTOR, (much I'm sure to MMORPG's chagrin) has not even bought a browser background ad here. (I see ads for RIFT, STO, GW2, EvE, a bunch of other Asian games, no SWTOR). EA is spending as little as it can on SWTOR both in content creation and marketing. All that EA/Bioware is doing is getting the most it can out of its leased Star Wars IP, and hoping that compulsive micro-transaction purchasses will help defray their losses on the development of SWTOR. Here's a party-Jawa, go drop a few hundred on cartel coins.
I think it is cool that almost everyone that I know of that started with F2P has subscribed during the weekend.
PvP pops often and the flashpoints from time to time, mainly due to lack of healers or tanks as in any other game.
I do not see how F2P has ruined anything, the game is more alive then it has been for months
F2P should get you all the stuff that subbers get, but overall costs more than $15, but where it works out cheaper is that you do not have to spend on stuff you do not want to play. No it shouldn't.
Why not, when F2P costs more? That is the point. Subbers get most stuff in effect for free, F2P people have to pay for stuff.
If you are not paying for it and game is completely free then I agree that you should not get what subbers get.
To get everything that subbers gets, it costs $28 per month instead of $15.
Everyone knows that Free to Play is not ever completely free to play, traditionally there are always limitations in F2P and players can spend more than they would if they were simply subscribing to the game.
I don't see why someone should have all of the access, all of the contents to the same game that I pay a monthly sub for, and it be completely free to them. If that were the case, why would anyone sub? And the game would be dead a lot sooner than later because money has to be made to keep the servers going.
It's my understanding that F2P get to play the main storylines free to end game. This is more than can be said about LOTRO F2P, where you are having to buy quests and entire zones, you have to buy storage/bags, you have to buy extra character slots (you only get two per server there as well), you have to either buy Warden and RuneMaster seperately or buy the expansion they came in.... In my opinion the only thing crazy about SWTOR's free to play is locking skill bars and PvP.
And what the hell are they buying every month that will cost them $28.00?
Not sure what you're talking about. The game hasn't changed for me at all since I've been subbinged since release. Yes , there is the Cartel Martket, but if I only subbed and never looked at the Cash shop, the game will still be the exact same for me.
However, I like the cash shop, I'm not going to spend a bunch of money on hit, maybe an extra 15$ or so a month. I love the items I have gotten, especially my Sith Throne mount. I feel like a powerful sith crossed with Professor X.
I think they did a good job. With it all.
It has changed, and has changed for all, but if you have already unlocked legacy, and do not plan on doing it again, then you will not see this change. I wonder what the new requirements are, and what other things have been compromised / dumbed down?
The Legacy system is SWTORs main feature.
For those who spent loads of time on Legacy, when could have done something else, does it now not make you mad that if you waited, you need not have spent so much time levelling legacy?
I didnt spend any extra time on legacy. I just levelled my characters like normal and ..bam....I was eligible as soon as it was put in game. I really don't see your point as much of a bother.
As far as why Legacy unlocks earlier..thats simply because there are a shite-ton of legacy unlocks in the Cartel store...and they want our money. Kinda shitty and greedy but still really doesnt affect playing except to give us another method to unlock the "perks". Granted..most of the perks suck anyway but I'd much rather unlock them in the store as I want them..if not..just continue playing until they unlock themselves or I feel like spending credits. Notice I said "want"..because we really don't need any of the stuff. Personally I enjoy the option and will really enjoy buying a Cartel pack from time to time to get some neat little things like speeders..emotes..armor. Got a cool speeder already and a trinket that makes my eyes glow red for 60 seconds with a short cooldown. Another piece of armor that is an invisible chestpiece that can be modded....so it looks lik you're bare chested..lol.
"I didnt spend any extra time on legacy. I just levelled my characters like normal and ..bam....I was eligible as soon as it was put in game"
"As far as why Legacy unlocks earlier..thats simply because there are a shite-ton of legacy unlocks in the Cartel store...and they want our money"
Those comments are exactly my point!
This change makes me feel like not playing any more, as I have now unlocked now without playing the game. This change has robbed me of upcoming gameplay, which is not hard as you pointed out and can get there soon enough. It was only changed so EA can now rob you of more money.
I would rather play the game, than pay the game, for all what the Cartel Shop offers.
The things that the Cartel Shop should offer, is more character slots as it opens up more gameplay, but it does not do.
You don't have to use the store. You still have to grind to unlock the perks based on what legacy level you have. Then you still have to unlock them with credits once you obtain the level. There were very few legacy perks that were free...Just the species ones unlock for free when you reach level 50 in that species. I could be wrong but still..your entire legacy doesnt unlock and give you every perk at level 10...or whatever. Sure...you can set up your Legacy quicker..but there is still plenty of playing and grinding for legacy xp and credits should u wish to avoid the cartel shop.
I have a sub 8 characters and a level 50 BH but still have only legacy 8....the legacy xp is slowwww grind. Even using the cartel shop..I didnt notice many higher legacies perks...it may open up in the shop as you level legacy..e.g. level 8 unlock wont be available in the shop until u reach level 8 legacy...same for level 9..not to mention many require a certain character level to use once u buy them from the cartel shop. So ..still plenty of playing and grinding involved.
The shop definitely has its bad points...but it has some good things too and in the end..you can always choose to ignore it or choose to sub. Pretty much the same as 99% of the other F2P models in existence.
Ultimately though..the difference, I think, between You and I is that, though i like SWTOR, I never thought the Legacy system was a big deal. A few "cute' things and thats about all.
I don't think a lot of subscribers realize how much FTP (cash shop really) has already affected SWTOR's overall game design.Here's my roughshod list of how it has already affected ToR. (Remember, they've been designing around the cash shop since Spring.) 1.) Content withholding. -A] Since Spring they've only realiased (and that's including 1.5) 2 Operations and 1 companion.B] Remember, that companion quest line was in game at Beta. As a part of their string out the subscribers/figure out a way to monetize everything, HK-51 was withheld. (His preview video was out in what June?)C] The new unrealesed warzone Hypergates has been in playable form since August at E3 is still unrealeased. BW has said it will be in the next patch. That's 4 months of holding on to it.D] Cathar- The Cathat have been ready, and previewed since June. They have been withheld until the cash shop was up to sell them to you.2.) Restricting ItemizationA] High end gear since the descion to switch to FTP has just been reskins of previous gear. By withholding gear, it makes the gear hidden within the $4.00 lockboxes more attractive on FTP release.B] Withholding a wide array of gear that was available in Beta. This gear which was seen over a year ago now, is still unreleased. Expect to see it in new rounds of lock-boxes. (Which is funny since they will say, "Look what we've been up" when tat gear was created over a year ago.3.) MakebA] Makeb is being withheld as a paid mini-expansiion. This is exceptionally greedy because it was oriinally intended as a major Patch release (as in no extra money to play). Makeb has been ready since May, but will now be sold to everyone, FTP and subber as a mini-expansion.4.) LegacyA] Here is where design as been directly affected by the cash shop. BW has stated that Legacy is their greatest feature and will receive their primary focus. Well now you know why Legacy pre-FTP was such a mooney sink. As it stands, Legacy perks are available aither by paying millions per perk, or an instant purchase of about $4.00 per perk in the cash shop. Guess which BW hopes you purchase. Expect to see many, many new Legacy perks in the future. In summary: Since deciding to switch to FTP (Who's primary purpose was the addition of the cash shop) Bioware has withheld, Makeb, Hk-51, Hypergate Warzone, the Cathar, and all the gear that was in Beta. Since the decision to switch to FTP, their decimated staff has designed no new content, just reeasing content which was already in the pipeline.Bioware intends to sell the Makeb patch as a mini-expansion, sell Cathat race unlocks, and put all the varied gear designed since before launch into lock-boxes.In lieu of new content, Bioware will contiinue to add to its altaholic Legacy perk system. Those perks will now be obtainable by either grinding out million upon millions of credits, or purchasing them directly fro the cash shop.When you can't get more money from more subscribers, you attempt to get more money per remaining subscriber.If Bioware will be succesful in doing this, we shall see. Bioware is putting its faith in its remaining playerbase being content with no real new content and paying for cash shop purchases many times over what they already pay as a monthly sub.The FTP option, is nothing but a tack on to garner a modicum of publicity, allow EA to stop reporting subs, but most importantly to Bioware, to sell, sell, sell micro-transactions in its cash shop. I base the FTP as nothing more then a ruse in that the restrictions are purposively unbearable, the servers are not designed for either the initial FTP rush or any real vast increase in players, there has been virtually no marketing campaign for the FTP switch.Think about, why spend money on advertising when your customer already knows about the new product. SWTOR, (much I'm sure to MMORPG's chagrin) has not even bought a browser background ad here. (I see ads for RIFT, STO, GW2, EvE, a bunch of other Asian games, no SWTOR). EA is spending as little as it can on SWTOR both in content creation and marketing. All that EA/Bioware is doing is getting the most it can out of its leased Star Wars IP, and hoping that compulsive micro-transaction purchasses will help defray their losses on the development of SWTOR. Here's a party-Jawa, go drop a few hundred on cartel coins.
Quoted for truth.
They haven't done anything to get me to resub. The same complaints I had before haven't been rectified. Same bad game with even more bad freemium model.
I think it is cool that almost everyone that I know of that started with F2P has subscribed during the weekend.
PvP pops often and the flashpoints from time to time, mainly due to lack of healers or tanks as in any other game.
I do not see how F2P has ruined anything, the game is more alive then it has been for months
F2P should get you all the stuff that subbers get, but overall costs more than $15, but where it works out cheaper is that you do not have to spend on stuff you do not want to play. No it shouldn't.
Why not, when F2P costs more? That is the point. Subbers get most stuff in effect for free, F2P people have to pay for stuff.
If you are not paying for it and game is completely free then I agree that you should not get what subbers get.
To get everything that subbers gets, it costs $28 per month instead of $15.
Everyone knows that Free to Play is not ever completely free to play, traditionally there are always limitations in F2P and players can spend more than they would if they were simply subscribing to the game.
I don't see why someone should have all of the access, all of the contents to the same game that I pay a monthly sub for, and it be completely free to them. If that were the case, why would anyone sub? And the game would be dead a lot sooner than later because money has to be made to keep the servers going.
It's my understanding that F2P get to play the main storylines free to end game. This is more than can be said about LOTRO F2P, where you are having to buy quests and entire zones, you have to buy storage/bags, you have to buy extra character slots (you only get two per server there as well), you have to either buy Warden and RuneMaster seperately or buy the expansion they came in.... In my opinion the only thing crazy about SWTOR's free to play is locking skill bars and PvP.
And what the hell are they buying every month that will cost them $28.00?
$28 is the cost of everything added up. Quick slot bars + weekly passes + well, everything
I think you are not understanding what I am saying. The lack of charcter slots is dumb. I can not play the game at all in F2P because I can not even purchase more slots. If I could purchase more slots, then that means will have to buy more quick slot bars and everything again for the character, which is Win-Win - EA gets money from me and I get to play the game.
I am not interested in constantly playing Space Missions, Operations, Warzones, so they can be locked off completely as far as I am concerned, but would like to be able to buy more char slots. The reason for playing in F2P instead of subbing is so you can pay for what you want to play, making the end result cheaper. If you want the whole thing then you sub as paying in F2P is a lot more costly.
the legacy system is much better now that you get it at 10 and can start earning legacy exp much earlier and not have to commit to 30-32 to get your first unlock so all this crying is stupid at best. People can sub if they want more than 2 toons as free to play considering they didnt fork out money to even buy the software like most of us did. Also enough of the hate on swtor free to play , about the only thing i think they should change is the action bars being limited to two. Other than that if you think its so bad please DO NOT come back and play as you want everything for free that subs pay for. The crying and bashing of this game from this community is getting old considering it doesnt merit it because YOU do not like it. If you hate the free to play restrictions carry your butt to another game and stop worrying people playing this one , you had a chance to keep this games item shop out of it by subbing yet people didnt want to sub and then wonder why they have a cash shop and restrictions....
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You assume that only young people play SWTOR? You are very wrong. There are plenty of us, who actually earn money and can play for our entertaintment
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Sith Warrior - Story of Hate and Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKrlwXt7Ao
Imperial Agent - Rise of Cipher Nine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBj3eJWBvU&feature=youtu.be
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The problem was the sort of huge cash grab EA was hoping for simply only happened for one game at a time when...well look at my sig.
They should have been much more modest with their budget and not set their expectations so high. No MMORPG is going to come in as P2P and get the numbers WoW did.....it just is not going to happen.
Was it really necessary to flame him based on your assumption? take your venom out on game all you like but why attack the players?
The way you reply to him says more abour your age than his.
Wait, what?
You can now get those upgrades to you ship?
That is something that bothered me a lot.
Any other upgrades, and what kind of effort does it take to accomplish?
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Originally posted by Jerek_
I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts.
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you were always able to get these upgrades with your legacy. That did not change with F2P. It's pretty pricy though.
These are convenience perks. Most of other MMOs have these kind of stuff available for players too... like mailbox in house in EQ2. Not sure what it is that is bothering you about them.
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Imperial Agent - Rise of Cipher Nine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBj3eJWBvU&feature=youtu.be
Imperial Agent - Hunt for the Eagle Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQqjYYU128E
F2P ruins all P2P games really, except maybe STO which can be played a lot without paying anything, but at least other games gone F2P are more playable via F2P, than SWTORs F2P.
You say you can get more cool things with CC. I'd rather get more cool things by playing the game from more content.
Until they allow more slots in F2P then the Legacy system is pointless in F2P.
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Welcome to freemium world.
some of that is probably to combat farmers etc, thing have to remember, is that its a microtransaction based game now, you can bypass most of it by subbing, but if you don't sub, then you will have to pay a certain amount on a regular basis for certain types of gameplay, and as PVP and Operations etc are considered to be 'endgame' you are encouraged to sub for them, or be prepared to pay, and pay, and pay to do them, and still have reduced rewards from them too, awesome, F2P in SW;TOR is more of an unlimited trial, if you look at it in that sense then the game won't disappoint too much, and if by chance you like playing it, then go P2P, simples.
I didnt spend any extra time on legacy. I just levelled my characters like normal and ..bam....I was eligible as soon as it was put in game. I really don't see your point as much of a bother.
As far as why Legacy unlocks earlier..thats simply because there are a shite-ton of legacy unlocks in the Cartel store...and they want our money. Kinda shitty and greedy but still really doesnt affect playing except to give us another method to unlock the "perks". Granted..most of the perks suck anyway but I'd much rather unlock them in the store as I want them..if not..just continue playing until they unlock themselves or I feel like spending credits. Notice I said "want"..because we really don't need any of the stuff.
Personally I enjoy the option and will really enjoy buying a Cartel pack from time to time to get some neat little things like speeders..emotes..armor. Got a cool speeder already and a trinket that makes my eyes glow red for 60 seconds with a short cooldown. Another piece of armor that is an invisible chestpiece that can be modded....so it looks lik you're bare chested..lol.
you made a little typo.
"I didnt spend any extra time on legacy. I just levelled my characters like normal and ..bam....I was eligible as soon as it was put in game"
"As far as why Legacy unlocks earlier..thats simply because there are a shite-ton of legacy unlocks in the Cartel store...and they want our money"
Those comments are exactly my point!
This change makes me feel like not playing any more, as I have now unlocked now without playing the game. This change has robbed me of upcoming gameplay, which is not hard as you pointed out and can get there soon enough. It was only changed so EA can now rob you of more money.
I would rather play the game, than pay the game, for all what the Cartel Shop offers.
The things that the Cartel Shop should offer, is more character slots as it opens up more gameplay, but it does not do.
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I quit when the only legacy perk was a surname, fairly certain there was nothing else you got from legacy back then.
What was bothering me was that there was NOT these things on your ship.
These upgrades is good "news", to me.
I did try to login and play f2p but as a lvl 50 trooper the limits put on f2p made it if not impossible at least very hard to play.
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I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts.
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Why not, when F2P costs more? That is the point. Subbers get most stuff in effect for free, F2P people have to pay for stuff.
If you are not paying for it and game is completely free then I agree that you should not get what subbers get.
To get everything that subbers gets, it costs $28 per month instead of $15.
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I don't think a lot of subscribers realize how much FTP (cash shop really) has already affected SWTOR's overall game design.
Here's my roughshod list of how it has already affected ToR. (Remember, they've been designing around the cash shop since Spring.)
1.) Content withholding. -
A] Since Spring they've only realiased (and that's including 1.5) 2 Operations and 1 companion.
B] Remember, that companion quest line was in game at Beta. As a part of their string out the subscribers/figure out a way to monetize everything, HK-51 was withheld. (His preview video was out in what June?)
C] The new unrealesed warzone Hypergates has been in playable form since August at E3 is still unrealeased. BW has said it will be in the next patch. That's 4 months of holding on to it.
D] Cathar- The Cathat have been ready, and previewed since June. They have been withheld until the cash shop was up to sell them to you.
2.) Restricting Itemization
A] High end gear since the descion to switch to FTP has just been reskins of previous gear. By withholding gear, it makes the gear hidden within the $4.00 lockboxes more attractive on FTP release.
B] Withholding a wide array of gear that was available in Beta. This gear which was seen over a year ago now, is still unreleased. Expect to see it in new rounds of lock-boxes. (Which is funny since they will say, "Look what we've been up" when tat gear was created over a year ago.
3.) Makeb
A] Makeb is being withheld as a paid mini-expansiion. This is exceptionally greedy because it was oriinally intended as a major Patch release (as in no extra money to play). Makeb has been ready since May, but will now be sold to everyone, FTP and subber as a mini-expansion.
4.) Legacy
A] Here is where design as been directly affected by the cash shop. BW has stated that Legacy is their greatest feature and will receive their primary focus. Well now you know why Legacy pre-FTP was such a mooney sink. As it stands, Legacy perks are available aither by paying millions per perk, or an instant purchase of about $4.00 per perk in the cash shop. Guess which BW hopes you purchase. Expect to see many, many new Legacy perks in the future.
In summary: Since deciding to switch to FTP (Who's primary purpose was the addition of the cash shop) Bioware has withheld, Makeb, Hk-51, Hypergate Warzone, the Cathar, and all the gear that was in Beta. Since the decision to switch to FTP, their decimated staff has designed no new content, just reeasing content which was already in the pipeline.
Bioware intends to sell the Makeb patch as a mini-expansion, sell Cathat race unlocks, and put all the varied gear designed since before launch into lock-boxes.
In lieu of new content, Bioware will contiinue to add to its altaholic Legacy perk system. Those perks will now be obtainable by either grinding out million upon millions of credits, or purchasing them directly fro the cash shop.
When you can't get more money from more subscribers, you attempt to get more money per remaining subscriber.
If Bioware will be succesful in doing this, we shall see. Bioware is putting its faith in its remaining playerbase being content with no real new content and paying for cash shop purchases many times over what they already pay as a monthly sub.
The FTP option, is nothing but a tack on to garner a modicum of publicity, allow EA to stop reporting subs, but most importantly to Bioware, to sell, sell, sell micro-transactions in its cash shop. I base the FTP as nothing more then a ruse in that the restrictions are purposively unbearable, the servers are not designed for either the initial FTP rush or any real vast increase in players, there has been virtually no marketing campaign for the FTP switch.
Think about, why spend money on advertising when your customer already knows about the new product. SWTOR, (much I'm sure to MMORPG's chagrin) has not even bought a browser background ad here. (I see ads for RIFT, STO, GW2, EvE, a bunch of other Asian games, no SWTOR). EA is spending as little as it can on SWTOR both in content creation and marketing. All that EA/Bioware is doing is getting the most it can out of its leased Star Wars IP, and hoping that compulsive micro-transaction purchasses will help defray their losses on the development of SWTOR. Here's a party-Jawa, go drop a few hundred on cartel coins.
Everyone knows that Free to Play is not ever completely free to play, traditionally there are always limitations in F2P and players can spend more than they would if they were simply subscribing to the game.
I don't see why someone should have all of the access, all of the contents to the same game that I pay a monthly sub for, and it be completely free to them. If that were the case, why would anyone sub? And the game would be dead a lot sooner than later because money has to be made to keep the servers going.
It's my understanding that F2P get to play the main storylines free to end game. This is more than can be said about LOTRO F2P, where you are having to buy quests and entire zones, you have to buy storage/bags, you have to buy extra character slots (you only get two per server there as well), you have to either buy Warden and RuneMaster seperately or buy the expansion they came in.... In my opinion the only thing crazy about SWTOR's free to play is locking skill bars and PvP.
And what the hell are they buying every month that will cost them $28.00?
You don't have to use the store. You still have to grind to unlock the perks based on what legacy level you have. Then you still have to unlock them with credits once you obtain the level. There were very few legacy perks that were free...Just the species ones unlock for free when you reach level 50 in that species. I could be wrong but still..your entire legacy doesnt unlock and give you every perk at level 10...or whatever. Sure...you can set up your Legacy quicker..but there is still plenty of playing and grinding for legacy xp and credits should u wish to avoid the cartel shop.
I have a sub 8 characters and a level 50 BH but still have only legacy 8....the legacy xp is slowwww grind. Even using the cartel shop..I didnt notice many higher legacies perks...it may open up in the shop as you level legacy..e.g. level 8 unlock wont be available in the shop until u reach level 8 legacy...same for level 9..not to mention many require a certain character level to use once u buy them from the cartel shop. So ..still plenty of playing and grinding involved.
The shop definitely has its bad points...but it has some good things too and in the end..you can always choose to ignore it or choose to sub. Pretty much the same as 99% of the other F2P models in existence.
Ultimately though..the difference, I think, between You and I is that, though i like SWTOR, I never thought the Legacy system was a big deal. A few "cute' things and thats about all.
F2P is really a misnomer. I actually wish someone would go back in time and stop that phrase from ever being developed.
Think of it more as a very limited trial.
The only game I have played that doesn't severely limit content is APB:R. But then you get those annoying ads and have your experience diminished.
If you want to play the game in full, you're just going to have to subscribe. Thems are the ways of the MMORPG.
Quoted for truth.
They haven't done anything to get me to resub. The same complaints I had before haven't been rectified. Same bad game with even more bad freemium model.
$28 is the cost of everything added up. Quick slot bars + weekly passes + well, everything
I think you are not understanding what I am saying. The lack of charcter slots is dumb. I can not play the game at all in F2P because I can not even purchase more slots. If I could purchase more slots, then that means will have to buy more quick slot bars and everything again for the character, which is Win-Win - EA gets money from me and I get to play the game.
I am not interested in constantly playing Space Missions, Operations, Warzones, so they can be locked off completely as far as I am concerned, but would like to be able to buy more char slots. The reason for playing in F2P instead of subbing is so you can pay for what you want to play, making the end result cheaper. If you want the whole thing then you sub as paying in F2P is a lot more costly.
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