Star Wars: The Old Republic has been given a free-to-play date, meaning from next week gamers will be able to get their Jedi jollies without forking over a single penny.
The game's free mode goes live on 15 November, Videogamer reports, and lets you play through the game up to level 50. You won't get every aspect of the game for free though -- click here for a full list of which midi-chlorian-soaked features you can get for nothing, and which ones will cost you real-life galactic credits.
Publisher EA announced The Old Republic would be going free several months ago. The move is designed to get more players interested in the ailing title, which has seen subscriber numbers dwindling. EA said the game would break even if it can keep hold of 500,000 paying customers.
Meanwhile, there's a spot of good news for World of Warcraft, which once again boasts more than 10 million paying players, the BBC writes. The number of people forking over moolah to play Blizzard's frighteningly elaborate online title had dropped to 9.1 million.
As usual, pandas are to blame -- the increased subscriber count comes following the release of Kung Fu Panda 2 Mists of Pandaria, the fourth expansion set for Blizzard's Tauren-filled virtual world.
Those pesky pandas prompted publisher Activision to post a profit of $226m for the July to September period. Not too surprising when you consider the expansion pack itself costs about £25.
Are you sticking with Skywalker and chums? Or are you packing your bags for Pandaria? Tell me in the comments or on our Facebook wall.
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anonymous 9 November, 2012 15:33
Seriously, you clearly don't know your games very well, or your just making a really crappy joke with the whole "Kung Fu Panda" crap, they pandarens have been in games longer than Kung Fu Panda has even been a film idea...try playing the old Warcraft games before you join the band wagon of herp derps next time...
Leszcz 9 November, 2012 22:40
Yeah still looks like kung fu panda though ;-)
BenniBlob 10 November, 2012 18:33
World Of Warcraft is a highly underrated MMO. People think of it as a nerds game or a game for people with no life well there wrong i skate very regularly and do many other hobbies but only use the game to pass time when its a wet day and have nothing to do.Then people say of "Ten pounds a month for a game ouch" but the price of the game can be cheaper on different deals, and i think of the money as a "Noob" repellant so that all the 6 year old kids don't come on one of those free-to-play games and destroy the game experience. And those people which say they have played the game but they really have not. many say that "the game only starts when you hit lvl 90 (the lvl cap) which i think is true but if they have played the game they were really bad at the game because its nothing like call of duty and that they only get to play on the Free trial which is up to lvl 20 for 90 days I think.
And thats my verdict on World Of Warcraft and people that judge it.
anonymous 15 November, 2012 17:44
BenniBlob is a pizza-faced nerd loser with no friends. "I am not a nerd because I skate", that's like saying "I'm not gay because I sleep with men". Fool
anonymous 27 November, 2012 19:15
Those two quantifiers aren't correlated... troll elsewhere