{"id":34227,"date":"2012-03-15T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T10:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34227"},"modified":"2012-03-15T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T10:13:45","slug":"play-star-wars-the-old-republic-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/34227-play-star-wars-the-old-republic-for-free","title":{"rendered":"Play Star Wars: The Old Republic for free"},"content":{"rendered":"

If, after all the positive reviews and difficulty finding a local copy, you still haven’t bothered with BioWare<\/a>‘s acclaimed Star Wars: The Old Republic – here’s your chance!<\/p>\n

From the very specific time of 19:01 SAST on Thursday the 15th of March (that’s today, folks) until 09:00 SAST on Monday the 19th of March, would-be Jedi and Sith have a chance to dip their toes in the enormous Star Wars universe.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of limitations, however.<\/p>\n

The Weekend Pass only allows access to the opening adventures of each of the eight character classes in the game until reaching their faction’s capital world.<\/p>\n

Further limitations that Pass players can expect are: a level cap of 15 on any given character; a block on sending or receiving in-game mails; and no access to general, trade or PvP chat.<\/p>\n

PvP-loving Pass players will have the opportunity to face off against their foe in Warzones, and the more PvE-loving types can group up to experience the challenges of some of the earlier Flashpoints.<\/p>\n

Newbies are assured that no payment method is required to have access this weekend.<\/p>\n

Have fun!<\/p>\n

Do free-to-play weekends whet your appetite for games, and convince you to pay up in the long run? Let us know what you think in the comments below.<\/p>\n

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This weekend, starting today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":31075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,427,813,921],"class_list":["post-34227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-bioware","tag-electronic-arts","tag-star-wars-the-old-republic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34229,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34227\/revisions\/34229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}