WAR Safe From F2P and TOR

"No no," was the response from BioWare Mythic VP Eugene Evans when PC Gamer asked if the studio's involvement in Star Wars: The Old Republic put the future of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, their Warhammer MMORPG in doubt. "All of these games appeal to different people for different reasons. I’m very proud to be able to say that I’m running the studio that’s run Ultima Online for as long as it has – 14 years. Dark Age of Camelot just celebrated 10 years. We hope we can run these games for as long as there is player interest." He also says there are no current plans to take the game down the free-to-play route so many of its competitors have chosen: "Right now, we’re focused on Wrath of Heroes as our free-to-play offering in the Warhammer universe," Evans tells them. "We believe in the community of players who are playing Age of Reckoning. Yes, we could have attracted a lot of players to it [with free-to-play], but it’s unclear how long you’ll keep them. We wanted to support our game as it currently exists."
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Illumin wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 01:43:
If Lucas Arts didn't let Galaxy go free to play you can bet they aren't going to let SWTOR go free to play. EA loves money too so don't see it happening anyways. There could be 5 guys left playing and EA would still charge them 15$ a month.

This had nothing to do with TOR going F2P. He discussed whether they would make WAR F2P and how TOR would affect WAR in the long run. Since they have WOH coming up, they don't feel the need to go down the F2P route with WAR, even though most people would argue otherwise.

TOR will never go F2P, not with the budget and resources that have been sunk into it. WAR should be F2P by this point.
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