free to play

[xat.com/flirt]

how free to play friendly is this game? what are the pay to win parts of it? thanks

[phazonfreak]

There are no pay to win parts.

https://swtorista.com/articles/swtor-free-to-play-vs-preferred-vs-subscriber-guide/

[Thander]

Without subscribing you can level to 60, do 8 origin stories, and see the expansion stories for Rise of the Hutt Cartel and Shadows of Revan. A 1 month subscription is required to unlock the max level 80 cap and the other 4 expansion stories. Subscribing is also mostly required for the MMO type stuff like operations (raids) and gearing up at max level (purple quality gear).

[Duddyx5]

I would recommend subscribing 1 month to unlock lvl 80 level cap and some other benifits of becoming a preferred player. Once you unlock content from subscribing like the level cap increase it wont revert once you no longer subscribe.

[Mini-Man]

Free to play is painful, being preferred or subscribed makes it much better

[Poebat]

Those are limitations of f2p compared to subscribed i've noticed so far in my 60-ish hours of playing.


1.Level capped to 60 instead of 80 but u get stat boost if u play arena/instance, u might not be getting some heavy-hitting skill tho.

2. U won't be getting useful gear from instances(flashpoints) unless u either play it in solo mod or if ur party has 0 subscribed members(not sure about the last one). U still might get blueprints/crafting items that worth a fortune on auction tho.

3. Credit cap to 1kk and this is total bs considering that auctions has a freaking lot of items that cost at least x10 more.

4. Can't buy special mount which is super useful in both flashpoints/warzones.

5. Can't use highest grade gear. Tho it might be not that bad since i haven't rly had any issues with my gear even while doing group missions in solo.

6. Getting less xp but it's not an issue rly. I've just made thru second planet bc i was doing pvp/fp for fun and i'm already at max lvl.

7. Less slots in bag. Latest expansions for it cost real money.

8. Can't use personal bank, tho u can use legacy bank which is almost the same thing.

9. Only 2 sell slots for auction to go along with credit cap I suppose.

10. Can't play dlcs unless subscribed, tho this restriction is lifted if u've subscribed at least once.

11. Crasfting is heavily limited so just go with Slicing which gives credit boxes and don't bother with anything else.


The game rly pushes u to spend at least 15$ once to get most of it.

[Berserkr]

Always though F2P not being able to use cargo hold was so stupid

[Dr. Atrocious]

Originally posted by Berserkr:

Always though F2P not being able to use cargo hold was so stupid

There's no reason not to subscribe at least once if you're enjoying the game enough to spend several+ hours in it. F2P is a "demo" as it should be.

[JawaJoose]

Paying gives you full access to character creation, group content, pvp, etc. Anything you can spend money on is either purely cosmetic or a convenience.

[Poebat]

Originally posted by JawaJoose:

Paying gives you full access to character creation, group content, pvp, etc. Anything you can spend money on is either purely cosmetic or a convenience.

so wrong

[smallturns]

Why are some of you saying something about subscribing I mean in order to play the game don't you half to make an account and now since Disney owns the whole franchise except their EULA to install any Star Wars game because I had the game in my Steam library for awhile and I would like to try it out?

[Darth Revan]

Originally posted by smallturns:

Why are some of you saying something about subscribing I mean in order to play the game don't you half to make an account and now since Disney owns the whole franchise except their EULA to install any Star Wars game because I had the game in my Steam library for awhile and I would like to try it out?

They are talking about the paid subscription where you pay a certain ammount every month to get benefits and dlc access

[Vardahil]

Originally posted by Thander:

Without subscribing you can level to 60, do 8 origin stories, and see the expansion stories for Rise of the Hutt Cartel and Shadows of Revan. A 1 month subscription is required to unlock the max level 80 cap and the other 4 expansion stories. Subscribing is also mostly required for the MMO type stuff like operations (raids) and gearing up at max level (purple quality gear).

That's interesting, I'm F2P(pref since I bought CC in the past), I bought SoR and most significant unlocks on the GTN way back when. Never actually played SoR and stopped playing for years because life. I only came back recently, almost done with SoR and I see on my ship console I can start KotFE chapter 1. Is it going to ask me to sub to even start it or how does that even work?

[RoyalSamCZ]

Originally posted by CokeVoAYCE:

how free to play friendly is this game? what are the pay to win parts of it? thanks

12,99€ it's almost free and it's worth the benefits the game is pretty fun the only thing the developers should redo is that if you have a preffered accout you shouldn't have a credit limit anymore cuz if you dont pay you have limit on 1m credits and for me that's the only thing that's extremely wrong with the game and discourages the larger community

[Thander]

Originally posted by Vardahil:

Originally posted by Thander:

Without subscribing you can level to 60, do 8 origin stories, and see the expansion stories for Rise of the Hutt Cartel and Shadows of Revan. A 1 month subscription is required to unlock the max level 80 cap and the other 4 expansion stories. Subscribing is also mostly required for the MMO type stuff like operations (raids) and gearing up at max level (purple quality gear).

That's interesting, I'm F2P(pref since I bought CC in the past), I bought SoR and most significant unlocks on the GTN way back when. Never actually played SoR and stopped playing for years because life. I only came back recently, almost done with SoR and I see on my ship console I can start KotFE chapter 1. Is it going to ask me to sub to even start it or how does that even work?

If you don't have KotFE unlocked, it will say you need a subscription when you try to start it. (If you are planning to do SoR, don't attempt to start KotFE until you finish SoR because you can't go back and do SoR after starting KotFE.)

[Vardahil]

Originally posted by Thander:

If you don't have KotFE unlocked, it will say you need a subscription when you try to start it. (If you are planning to do SoR, don't attempt to start KotFE until you finish SoR because you can't go back and do SoR after starting KotFE.)

Thank you for the answer, I thought I had read somewhere that they had made the first 9 chapters completely free to play. Guess I read wrong.

But it does seem like an odd choice, why put the mission on the console if the user can't access it. They could simply put a message at the end of SoR along the lines of "The story doesn't end here, if you want to continue your journey you will need to subscribe to access the next expansion[...]" Otherwise it kind of add to the confusion.

Also I was aware that starting KotFE would end SoR or most of the game story content before, but it's actually important information in case another player who's new and is unaware of this, stumbles on this discussion.