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  2. Star Wars: The Old Republic - Wikipedia

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    Payment is by credit card or time card. The free-to-play version integrates most of the primary features in the game, but has several restrictions, such as credit limits and reduced leveling speed. After launch, the game's subscribers rose to 1.7 million by February 2012. [76] By May 2012, those numbers fell to 1.3 million. [77]

  3. The Free Republic: Star Wars MMO considers free-to-play model

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    It looks like EA and its leading role-playing game studio, BioWare, might give in to the free-to-play (F2P) shift after all with their recent big-budget massively multiplayer online game (MMO ...

  4. Social Space: Throw Facebook games and MMOs in the blender ...

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    Not even a year later, and developer Bioware (and EA) has opted to turn the ailing game into a a free-to-play Take a look at Star Wars: The Old Republic, one of only a few modern MMOs to release ...

  5. List of best-selling video game franchises - Wikipedia

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    Free-to-play game downloads (including free mobile games) and microtransactions should not figure into sales or shipment figures. For video game franchises that have generated the highest overall media revenue (from games and other media and merchandise), see the list of highest-grossing media franchises .

  6. List of massively multiplayer online role-playing games

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    Free-to-play: 2008: Turn-based strategy Aura Kingdom: Active 3D: Fantasy: Free-to-play: 2014: Battle of the Immortals: Closed 3D: Fantasy: Free-to-play: 2010: 2018 Battle of the Immortals features an expansive pet system, a mount upgrade system, and six playable classes. Battlestar Galactica Online: Closed 3D: Science fiction: Free-to-play ...

  7. Free-to-play - Wikipedia

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    Free-to-play's model is sometimes derisively referred to as free-to-start due to not being entirely free. [1] Free-to-play games have also been widely criticized as "pay-to-win"—that is, that players can generally pay to obtain competitive or power advantages over other players. There are several kinds of free-to-play business models.

  8. History of massively multiplayer online games - Wikipedia

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    MapleStory would go on to become a major player in the new market for free-to-play MMORPGs (generating huge numbers of registered accounts across its many versions), if it did not introduce the market by itself. In September 2002, Earth & Beyond was released. Having been in development since 1997, this was the second 3D sci-fi space-ship based ...

  9. Buy-to-play - Wikipedia

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    Pay-to-play (P2P) is a model in which a subscription payment is required on an ongoing basis, in order to use a service. When comparing the three revenue models, the free-to-play and buy-to-play model is slowly rising in popularity as the pay-to-play model is decreasing in relative popularity.