Yesterday, BioWare issued two sources of updated information about the big free-to-play model switch coming this November. First of all, we got a nifty Cartel Coins ledger that can be used to figure out how many complimentary Coins current subscribers will be getting.
Secondly, and probably a lot more interesting, we finally received some concrete information about the restrictions F2P model players will be faced with compared to subscription model players. The full chart can be found on BioWare’s F2P information page, but keep reading for the quick version.
Story Content
- Subscription Features: Full class stories to level 50.
- Free-to-Play Features: Full class stories to level 50.
Character Creation Choices
- Subscription Features: Full access to all character creation choices.
- Free-to-Play Features: Limited options.
Operations
- Subscription Features: Full access.
- Free-to-Play Features: Weekly pass required for Operation access, which can be purchased using Cartel Coins.
Warzones
- Subscription Features: Unlimited access.
- Free-to-Play Features: Limited to three per week unless a weekly pass is purchased using Cartel Coins.
Flashpoints
- Subscription Features: Unlimited access.
- Free-to-Play Features: Limited to three per week unless a weekly pass is purchased using Cartel Coins.
Space Missions
- Subscription Features: Unlimited access.
- Free-to-Play Features: Limited to three per week unless a weekly pass is purchased using Cartel Coins.
Cargo Hold
- Subscription Features: Additional space can be purchased with Credits or Cartel Coins.
- Free-to-Play Features: Cargo Hold access and additional space must be purchased with Cartel Coins.
Inventory
- Subscription Features: Additional space can be purchased with Credits or Cartel Coins.
- Free-to-Play Features: Additional space must be purchased with Cartel Coins.
Crew Skills
- Subscription Features: Up to three.
- Free-to-Play Features: Limited to one unless more are purchased using Cartel Coins.
Quick Travel
- Subscription Features: Unlimited access with a reduced cooldown.
- Free-to-Play Features: Longer cooldown time unless permanent authorization is purchased using Cartel Coins.
Emergency Fleet Pass
- Subscription Features: Unlimited access. Can bypass the cooldown with a consumable bought with Cartel Coins.
- Free-to-Play Features: No access. Can unlock travel to the fleet with Cartel Coins.
Death
- Subscription Features: Revive at a Med Center or in the field with a cooldown.
- Free-to-Play Features: Revive at a Med Center or in the field up to five times. After this, Med Center revival then becomes the only option. Additional field revival can be purchased with Cartel Coins.
Game Login
- Subscription Features: Priority status in the login queue.
- Free-to-Play Features: No priority status in the login queue.
Item Equipping
- Subscription Features: Cannot equip most purple items unless an authorization is purchased from the Cartel Market.
- Free-to-Play Features: Cannot equip most purple items unless a license is purchased from the Cartel Market.
Important note: It seems the item equipping wording might be off for subscription players, since the sentence is translated differently on the German and French version of the SWTOR site. I’ll have an update on this when we find out for certain.
