User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why Zenimax, Why?/@comment-24770123-20140202175504/@comment-17114085-20140205103948

You can play TOR for free all the way to lvl 50. You can do the whole main quest and all the side quests. The only restrictic you on the crafting, flashpoints, operations and make you lvl slower. Nothing that major, you can still play the game and enjoy the story(which for me was the best part of the game)