Star Wars: The Old Republic gets free-to-play November 15

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BioWare converting MMORPG to subscription/freemium hybrid

Star Wars: The Old Republic has been preparing to implement a free-to-play hybrid option for several months, and next week BioWare will finally flip the switch. The developer today announced it will activate free-to-play on its release servers on Thursday, November 15.

While the game enjoyed a strong launch in December 2011, its subscriber numbers dropped quickly. The game had less than 1 million subscribers as of July, EA reported in its first quarter 2013 financial statement.

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Connor Sheridan
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I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.