SWTOR Goes Free 2 Play but not Free 2 Play

July 31st, It was announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be going F2P this coming fall. That sounds good right, not by a long shot.

Take a look at this. (Click to enlarge)

Still sub based and full access to game. What do F2P get, only your class story. No OPS (Endgame content), and limited feature in everything else basically.

Class story are indeed awesome but what will we do after I finished it? Play like 10 WZ and it's capped for the week? Do dailies or/and world boss w/ limited travel points. Want to create a Sith Jedi but have to pay just to have him/her.

The way they went about it is completely wrong and the solution was so simple that will make everyone happy. Give the player all the option and content and leave cosmetics to the "game shop". That is the true way to go F2P.

Many ppl want to come back and check things out but no OPS w/ friends or guide and limited warzones and flashpoints. I not gonna pay them for it but I'll say that this F2P should of happened from the beginning (but understandable due to the Star Wars license) bit it is a start.

--------- SWTOR goes F2P

The Waiting Game.. Star Wars - TOR

So now it begins.. You wanta sign up for beta for this game, then prepare to see this screen. The site got hit w/ a tsunami of ppl all wanting to get a shot to be in beta (and bragging rights) for it so you'll be lucky to get to the sign-up screen. Anyways, don't know exactly how many they gonna accept but GL to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

Star Wars: TOR is on my Radar

I don't really try to keep up w/ MMO's these days due to things like over-hype and stuff but after seeing the 20+ min of it, you got my interest Bioware..... Again..



They introduce things like cover system, interactive scenes where the situation/outcome chances depending on what you choose, and some gameplay from The Smuggler, Sith Warrior, and Bounty Hunter Classes. Oh did I mention fully voiced interaction. You can watch part 1-4 HERE!

Mass Effect 2: There be no New Game +... Might get Insanity mode instead

It was announced over the weekend that their will be No New Game + so to explain why, here's Preston Watamaniuk, the lead designer for Mass Effect has to say.

The short answer is no.

The reason is progression. We have been working very hard to make sure we design the abilities system to offer smooth progression into ME3 from ME2. Allowing double progression on characters makes that almost impossible. We have to have reasonable knowledge about where a character could end up finishing all content on a playthrough. We also want to offer choice of character build within specific classes.

We replaced that feature with playing after you were done because it preserves progression and allows for smoother downloading of PRC.

Tho this sucks, but it's understandable and it just might make you be a little caution, finding and killing all foes, hidden stuff, and other stuff like that comes into play. This also means that your "character" will be transfer to ME3.

Now about ME's Insanity mode. Their was grief that this was an unlock but their was a reason as Christina Norman, lead system designer explained.

Insanity difficulty was made unlockable, because it was so difficult a player needed the experience of already playing through the game in order to complete it.

Ultimately if I have to choose between those options, I will choose a harder insanity difficulty, because I believe that's what's important to our players. Overall insanity in ME2 will be harder than ME1. That's a heads up for everyone! Beating insanity on ME2 is going to be a real "achievement", a badge of honor, get ready.

So basically it'll be toned down to be playable in ME2 since their's no New Game + If they put it in... I don't mind this too much but the hardcore of the hardcore does.

So other then the none announcement that said to be delivered last friday, that's pretty much it.