EA is really now getting desperate...

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/15/s...lead-designer-we-are-looking-at-free-to-play/

Yes, that's right. They are considering making SWTOR Free to Play. That must be a bitter taste in EA/Bioware's mouth.

Here's a question for you Bioware. How does it feel to have something you loved and worked hard for ripped out from under you? All your hopes for SWTOR leading to naught? And here's the kicker, we didn't cry artisitic integrity. We just told you what we thought with our wallets.

Dont know how much of that is us telling our opinion with our wallets and how much it is just SWTOR sucking (or just not being the MMO prodigy they wanted it to be). Still, if SWTOR is doing this bad that they consider such drastic meausres, it encourages me to think that we wont see a Mass Effect MMO. And thats a good thing from where i stand.

I won't say SWTOR sucks. But it has alot of untapped potential that I doubt we'll ever see. But their subscriber numbers did drop. And their server merges are not going according to plan.

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/354254/page/1

I was already bored with the game prior to the ME3 controversy and had not jumped in in well over a month. Take away the setting, its just another generic mmo. The whole genre feels like its floating dead in the water, nothing new except the same old formula. Me, I`m done with mmo`s and I put my hopes in that despite TES online we`ll still have Elder Scrolls 6 for our single-player pleasure.

I really enjoyed the story of my Bounty Hunter and Sith Warrior. But the game was so buggy and laggy, that I just gave up. Never did play much with friends, although the group convo stuff was interesting enough. Makes me wish they would just export the stories and turn them into single player games.

I blame this one mostly on EA. I'm sure a Bioware MMO was pushed pretty heavily by the EA suits with dollar signs in their eyes - with all the talk of WoW during the development of TOR you'd have to think that EA wanted a slice of the WoW pie. It wouldn't be the first time someone has gone after a share of that market (and it's certainly not the first or last failure).

If only Bioware had been allowed to make KOTOR 3 and given us a proper conclusion to Revan's (and the Exile's) story. That game would have sold millions of copies guaranteed. Now they've kinda screwed the pooch - because they were stupid enough to plonk TOR a couple of hundred of years after KOTOR there's no room to move. If you put it before after KOTOR and before TOR? Who cares - we already know the Sith Empire. You put it after TOR? Well that's too far in the future for Revan to play a role unless some serious space magic takes place.

Well, someone in BSN did post the price drop on the shares between January 3rd and June 15th: 42.16% I think.
That's already bitter enough for EA. For Bioware all of this is being tragic, but they are more driven to sink standing, than to survive crawling.
Well, good job dudes. Now Casey Hudson can spend the rest of his career producing low-value cellphone games and Mac Walters can write filler stories of low-selling comics for the rest of their lives. About Chris Priestly, I believe there is plenty of pizza delivery for him.

Going free to play is probably going to be the only thing that saves SWTOR. I have some friends who played for a bit, then just got too bored to play.

I never liked games where you paid $60 up front and then still pay monthly. I just don't have the money for them with college and all.

I quit renting games years ago. It's a huge waste of money, why would I do the same thing on a monthly basis?

Exactly. I want to be able to play a game I bought whenever I want, without worrying about if I payed my monthly bill or not.

This is what happens when you pit a MMO against World or Warcraft, it's doomed to fail. Just sayin'.