SWTOR Free to play now on PTS
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:37 pm
Have you guys seen the exact restrictions?
I'm not a BioWare hater but I just had to post this as it's absolutely ridiculous.
This is a list of some of the restrictions a F2P player has:
BioWare must be <censored> insane to think all of those restrictions are a good idea for a F2P option when there are other titles out there like Guild Wars 2 which already offers more than TOR's paid subscription. I can't even see this being worth it for the most casual type of gamer tbh, just not worth bothering with.
Needless to say there's no way I'd ever go back as a F2P customer now, such a shame
I'm not a BioWare hater but I just had to post this as it's absolutely ridiculous.
This is a list of some of the restrictions a F2P player has:
- Character creation race restructions
- General Chat/Trade/PvP limited to one message every minute (shared timer)
- No trading with other players
- Can not send mail
- 2hr cooldown on Quick Travel
- No access to emergency fleet pass
- No access to cargo hold
- No access to Guild Bank
- Cannot expand inventory tabs
- No rest XP
- Cannot equip purple/artifact quality gear
- Only one quickbar with 12 abilities
- No unify color option
- No hide head slot option
- No title or legacy name displayed
- Credits capped at 200k
- Only two active sale slots on the GTN
- Only 1 crew skill allowed
- Can only deploy 3 companions
- Increased prices for PvP & Flashpoint gear
- Limited to 3 warzones per week
- Limited to 3 flashpoints per week
- No access to Operations
BioWare must be <censored> insane to think all of those restrictions are a good idea for a F2P option when there are other titles out there like Guild Wars 2 which already offers more than TOR's paid subscription. I can't even see this being worth it for the most casual type of gamer tbh, just not worth bothering with.
Needless to say there's no way I'd ever go back as a F2P customer now, such a shame