“The MMO market is very dynamic and we need to be dynamic as well,” he said. In a recent interview (since been pulled from the site) with Games(TM), lead designer Emmanuel Lusinchi stated that BioWare isn’t ruling out taking the game down the F2P path.
Since February, Star Wars: The Old Republic has seen an astonishing 400,000+ subscribers drop. It wasn’t long after that BioWare began to at least acknowledge those critics, as the prominent developer hit a rough patch in terms of releasing new content for SWTOR, keeping players content, and ensuring servers were filled. Once labeled the “Fastest Growing MMO” of all time with over 1 million subscriptions in just three days after its launch, Star Wars: The Old Republic looked as if it was well on its way of silencing dissenters and critics who claimed that the MMO market was simply too turbulent and unpredictable during these troubling economic times.
