does anyone know how to take part in the free weekend?

I found it in three seconds by checking the official website, here's a link.

http://www.swtor.com/weekendpass

I'd love to know the effect these free weekends have on sales. They pop up on steam all the time so it's surely beneficial and they probably only stand to gain from it.

Wonder how subscriber numbers are looking.

Sounds like no fun at all.

We can't play beyond level 15 and there are other limitations too like the chat not working and you will not gain legacy points. Awesome!

Already having free weekends? Won't be long before this goes free to play.

@Funkydupe said:

We can't play beyond level 15 and there are other limitations too like the chat not working and you will not gain legacy points. Awesome!

why should we?

I haven't paid a dollar for it and at least I get a taste of it this weekend, I paid nothing so I should get everything is something no one over 10 should ever say.

I think it is pretty good value for the very low price of free. Leveling up to 15 (or less) will probably tell you if this game is for you or not, without having to pick up a retail copy.

@Funkydupe said:

We can't play beyond level 15 and there are other limitations too like the chat not working and you will not gain legacy points. Awesome!

Wow, do you also complain that demos don't let you play the whole game?

@James_Giant_Peach: No.

@Wuddel: Time limited, and why won't they let a poor newbie talk with the options available in the game for the duration of this "demo"?

When I demo a car, I want to demo the whole car, and not just pieces of it. That'd be way more informative and honest than showing me some of it and covering up the rest, even if I was just allowed to try it for 10 minutes.

@Brodehouse: Yes. Demoing out your car is risky business, even just for small test drives, but you might be able to sell it faster.

@SirPsychoSexy said:

Already having free weekends? Won't be long before this goes free to play.

None of what you just said makes any sense.

WOW IN SPACE...for 3 days.

Even if this game was all free all the time i still wouldn't touch it on principle. I blame this game (perhaps unjustly) for the current state of Bioware to a degree.

It's too bad it will take you the entire weekend to install the game.

If you're clever you can use the free weekend to log in to the test server and check out some of the 1.2 changes. Did a char to level 10 myself and then un-installed the client again.

@CL60 said:

@SirPsychoSexy said:

Already having free weekends? Won't be long before this goes free to play.

None of what you just said makes any sense.

I give the game one more year before it goes F2P.

@CptBedlam said:

@CL60 said:

@SirPsychoSexy said:

Already having free weekends? Won't be long before this goes free to play.

None of what you just said makes any sense.

I give the game one more year before it goes F2P.

Yes. EA is going to make TOR F2P when they still haven't made their failure MMO F2P.(I'm not sure if it's free or not yet. But if it is, it still took them YEARS to make their failure MMO F2P) Yet obviously their MMO with a solid subscription base is going F2P.

They also sent out week long free trials to everyone who has an account on their site. Don't know if all this means they didn't get as many subs as they needed, or just not as many as they want.

Can anyone tell me what/who my character looks like? My girlfriend is saying that she reminds her of someone from a cartoon or film or something?

@Fattony12000: That's a young Sinead O'Conner with her weird glasses.

Or maybe the little round sunglasses just make her think of Christopher Lloyd as the villain from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

I signed up for the trial, now how the hell do I download the client to play?

They also sent out week long free trials to everyone who has an account on their site. Don't know if all this means they didn't get as many subs as they needed, or just not as many as they want.