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Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011)

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SUMMARY

Star Wars: The Old Republic will be going free-to-play this fall. Alongside this change the $15/mo subscriptions will still be available and will open up the game world over people who run through the Star Wars worlds and galaxy for free. For those not interested in the subscription, services and missions can be opened up with a freemium currency called "Cartel Coins." This freemium model as worked extremely well for other free-to-play games and may open up Star Wars to an entirely new culture of players.

Likelihood is that it will also breathe an influx of new life into the ailing game, which although it only managed to pull in about a million users (and sold a lot of copies) has been bleeding population since its launch and it's further threatened by other significant subscription-based MMOs such as World of Warcraft and their upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion.

As with any transition from subscription to free-to-play there will be some disruption in the entrenched community especially guilds. However, SWTOR has not been on the market as long as other subscription-based MMOs and as a result will not suffer as greatly under this disruption.

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CREDITS

To thank him for that lovely intro animation here's Chris Warren

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