When they read that Bioware’s Triple-A MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic was
converting to a free-to-play model this Fall, I doubt many gamers were surprised.
The Old Republic is just one of many
MMO’s that have made the switch from a sub-based business model to a F2P one
over the past few years, other notable examples being Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online and SOE’s Everquest II. The question is, was the
plan to make it a sub-based MMO doomed from the start?
