Some games like Maplestory needs to be
F2P or else...well, no one will play it. The game basically has no story or
anything out of the ordinary (expect its cuteness) that will draw players in if
it’s not F2P. However, some games are not suitable to go the F2P route. Star
Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) is one of those games. I played the game for
over 4 months and I will say this is one game should not go the F2P route.
The reason is that the main draw of the
game is the class stories. In SWTOR, each class has their own storylines and
anyone who had played SWTOR will tell you that the class missions are in a
class of their own. They are better than the other missions. In the game, I
reached level 80 in both my Jedi Consular and Bounty Hunter characters (one for
the Republic, one for the Empire) and I reached 80 well before I finished
Planet Crollia. And you know what I did when I reached 80?
I skipped the rest of the Crollia
missions and just concentrated on the class missions. I got on my speeder and
just raced to the class missions, skipping everything else. To my knowledge, a
lot of players do the same thing in SWTOR. So if the game goes F2P...everyone
will play the class missions and that’s it!
You
are going to have a pure empty space in the gameworld where everyone is just
racing to the next class mission location. SWTOR is not a pvp game or even a
combat-based game. It’s a storyline game and its greatest strength will be diluted
if it goes F2P. Hopefully Bioware and EA will have more sense than that.
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