{"id":23793,"date":"2012-03-14T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=23793"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:51:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:51:35","slug":"star-wars-the-old-republic-free-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/star-wars-the-old-republic-free-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: The Old Republic free this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23799\" title=\"Star Wars: The Old Republic\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/old-republic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\" \/>Bioware&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/star-wars-the-old-republic.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/strong><\/a> is free to play this weekend, Thursday March 15 at 12:01AM CT until Monday, March 19 at 2:00AM CT.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried this massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), it&#8217;s worth checking out. You can join the <strong>Empire <\/strong>or the <strong>Republic<\/strong>, and each with its own classes of character, who all have their own stories. It&#8217;s the most ambitious MMORPG since <strong>World of Warcraft<\/strong>, and has impressed fans with its faithful recreation of the Star Wars universe.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a revolutionary game, but it takes the best of existing MMORPGs and blends them with Star Wars to make an excellent title. It&#8217;s worth getting involved this weekend, as this is a genuine AA PC game with great production values. As more and more &#8216;free to play&#8217; online games eat away at the subscription model of Star Wars: The Old Republic, it&#8217;s hard to see another MMORPG of this quality any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>To play the free trial, you&#8217;ll have to <a href=\"https:\/\/account.swtor.com\/user\/register\">sign up for a free account<\/a>, and it&#8217;s recommended to download the big game client early so you can start playing as soon as the free weekend begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioware&#8217;s Star Wars: The Old Republic is free to play this weekend, Thursday March 15 at 12:01AM CT until Monday, March 19 at 2:00AM CT. If you haven&#8217;t tried this massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), it&#8217;s worth checking out. You can join the Empire or the Republic, and each with its own classes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/star-wars-the-old-republic-free-this-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Wars: The Old Republic free this weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2904],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-23793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionstar-wars-the-old-republic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333879,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23793\/revisions\/333879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23793"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=23793"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=23793"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=23793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}