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Star Wars: The Old Republic Blasts Onto Steam!

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited July 2020 in News & Features Discussion

imageStar Wars: The Old Republic Blasts Onto Steam!

Special launchers, slow updates, a Jedi craves not these things. Luckily for fans of Star Wars: The Old Republic you can now download and manage your current Star Wars MMO on Steam! With the addition of SWTOR on Steam, players will be able to make use of many of Steam's community features and even earn trading cards.

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  • AlbatroesAlbatroes Member LegendaryPosts: 7,671
    Better 8 years (I think it went f2p in 2012?) than never I suppose.
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  • TokkenTokken Member EpicPosts: 3,644
    nice!

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  • koldmiserkoldmiser Member RarePosts: 353

    Albatroes said:

    Better 8 years (I think it went f2p in 2012?) than never I suppose.



    It's a weird hybrid of free to play. You can play up to a certain level for free and you are locked out of a lot of features unless you sub.

    If you're a Star Wars fan though it's a great game. I highly recommend it.
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  • MendelMendel Member LegendaryPosts: 5,609
    I decided to restart this, as I've been pretty curious about the F2P changes they recently made.  A lot of the earlier expansions were made available to F2P players.

    Sadly, the download is going slowly.  Steam launch data bottleneck issues, it seems.



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  • HJ-NavarreHJ-Navarre Hero's Journey GMMember UncommonPosts: 114
    Such a fun mmo with great story telling! Great variety of content for all types of players. I have played since launch until recently, but, now that it is on Steam, I may just have to jump back in.
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  • Viper482Viper482 Member LegendaryPosts: 4,099
    Still an enjoyable MMO I always return to periodically.
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  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 9,976
    It never felt like a MMO to me....Sure there were other people around but I don't remember doing anything with another player. Also it was TOO story driven, kust felt like going through the motions but I haven't played it in a long time maybe it changed.
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  • klash2defklash2def Member EpicPosts: 1,949
    servers are full :)
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  • FrodoFraginsFrodoFragins Member EpicPosts: 6,050
    edited July 2020
    koldmiser said:

    Albatroes said:

    Better 8 years (I think it went f2p in 2012?) than never I suppose.



    It's a weird hybrid of free to play. You can play up to a certain level for free and you are locked out of a lot of features unless you sub.

    If you're a Star Wars fan though it's a great game. I highly recommend it.

    yeah, but if you sub for just a month you get all of the existing expansion leveling content for free after you unsub.  So it's great for people that like leveling alts.

    I play about 1 month a year.
  • ValdheimValdheim Member RarePosts: 705
    Just yesterday I was thinking about to return to SWTOR and now I see it's on Steam.
    I guess that's a sign from the Flying Spaghetti Monster, must obey then ;)
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  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,973
    koldmiser said:

    Albatroes said:

    Better 8 years (I think it went f2p in 2012?) than never I suppose.



    It's a weird hybrid of free to play. You can play up to a certain level for free and you are locked out of a lot of features unless you sub.

    If you're a Star Wars fan though it's a great game. I highly recommend it.
    It's best to not expect to play SWTOR completely free.

    But on the other hand the payment is reasonable. If you're ready to pay something like $20 a month SWTOR lets you play comfortably and you don't feel constant pressure to pay more.
     
  • HuntrezzHuntrezz Member UncommonPosts: 92
    I've been playing over the last few weeks and I went to log on last night. The servers were full and I had to wait to get in. I'm glad I'm not roaming around the starter areas. There are some pretty challenging group content dungeons/instances once you get around level 60. Done a few on the harder modes, surprised at the difficulty.
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  • DragnelusDragnelus Member EpicPosts: 3,503
    Seems populated on steam 29k players atm (EU)

  • NeblessNebless Member RarePosts: 1,871
    koldmiser said

    It's a weird hybrid of free to play. You can play up to a certain level for free and you are locked out of a lot of features unless you sub.
    I've only played it Free since I started and have my main (BH) up to 51 or 52 now and have never noticed any of the restrictions people talk about holding me back.

    Now granted I've been playing for quite a while, so maybe I'm grandfathered in some how, plus I still haven't finished my story line yet so maybe I'll see something down the road.

    It's a fun enough game; really more of a SPG than MMO, but that works for me as I like doing my own thing; solo & casual.  I like the story lines, not super impressed on how they pigeonhole your choices when you get to make them, but you can only program the AI to do so much.

    My only real complaint, and it's stopped me from playing for close to a year now, is some of the maps are just a mess.  Instead of laying out the whole world, you're stuck with a lot of little maps and have to figure out which exit will take you where to go, and it doesn't help using the fast travel portals since they don't always get you to where you think they should.
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  • azarhalazarhal Member RarePosts: 1,402
    Nebless said:

    It's a weird hybrid of free to play. You can play up to a certain level for free and you are locked out of a lot of features unless you sub.
    I've only played it Free since I started and have my main (BH) up to 51 or 52 now and have never noticed any of the restrictions people talk about holding me back.
    The F2P/Preferred restrictions only affect people who wants to do
    - raids (require a sub),
    - PvP (weekly limit for matches unless grouped with a subscriber)
    - Flashpoints (last boss reward weekly limits on veteran/master mode, has to be grouped with a subscriber)
    - crafting (but nobody should play SWTOR for the crafting, nobody)
    - lots of money (escrow limit)

     The rest are QoL and small cosmetic things (ex: title) that can be unlocked via cartel coins (aka add a security key to get 100 cartel coins/month) or a the referred link bundle.

    You also gain credits and XP/Renown slower, but unless you want to start to play SW barbies credits isn't really needed and you gain XP way too fast in the game regardless if you sub or not.
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  • azarhalazarhal Member RarePosts: 1,402

    Dragnelus said:

    Seems populated on steam 29k players atm (EU)



    Over 33k now.

    I'm surprised the servers haven't buckled over already. Just the Steam population means about 6k player per servers were added to the existing game population.

    I suspect yesterday maintenance right before it became available on Steam was to add more server capacity.
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  • rojoArcueidrojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722
    From what i saw they lifted a lot of restrictions that made preferred players miserable years ago. Time to download again.
    Indahole




  • rojoArcueidrojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722
    Gorwe said:
    So, what's the point, you still have to go through EA. I mean, the publicity gain / stunt is nice I guess.

    With that said, SWTOR itself was(and probably is) fantastic, I just don't see the point in all of these cross developer, multiple sign-in stunts.

    SWTOR doesn't use Origin, remember the game was standalone before Origin was even a store.

    I just downloaded it from Steam and it doesn't even mention origin. It boots straight from Steam. You do need your EA account, the same account you use to play Swtor since launch. I don't even have Origin installed.
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  • NeblessNebless Member RarePosts: 1,871
    edited July 2020
    azarhal said:
    Nebless said:

    It's a weird hybrid of free to play. You can play up to a certain level for free and you are locked out of a lot of features unless you sub.
    I've only played it Free since I started and have my main (BH) up to 51 or 52 now and have never noticed any of the restrictions people talk about holding me back.
    The F2P/Preferred restrictions only affect people who wants to do
    - raids (require a sub),
    - PvP (weekly limit for matches unless grouped with a subscriber)
    - Flashpoints (last boss reward weekly limits on veteran/master mode, has to be grouped with a subscriber)
    - crafting (but nobody should play SWTOR for the crafting, nobody)
    - lots of money (escrow limit)

     The rest are QoL and small cosmetic things (ex: title) that can be unlocked via cartel coins (aka add a security key to get 100 cartel coins/month) or a the referred link bundle.

    You also gain credits and XP/Renown slower, but unless you want to start to play SW barbies credits isn't really needed and you gain XP way too fast in the game regardless if you sub or not.
    Thanks for listing them.  The only one I even knew about was the currency cap but I don't think I've ever actually bought anything from a vendor so it's just been increasing all this time and then they raised the cap.

    Somekind of chat restriction used to be talked about, but I've always been able to chat / ask questions so not sure what was ever up with that.

    XP gain is crazy fast.  Only game I've know that's come out and said you don't really need to even bother with side quests.

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  • azarhalazarhal Member RarePosts: 1,402

    Nebless said:


    azarhal said:


    Nebless said:





    It's a weird hybrid of free to play. You can play up to a certain level for free and you are locked out of a lot of features unless you sub.


    I've only played it Free since I started and have my main (BH) up to 51 or 52 now and have never noticed any of the restrictions people talk about holding me back.



    The F2P/Preferred restrictions only affect people who wants to do

    - raids (require a sub),
    - PvP (weekly limit for matches unless grouped with a subscriber)
    - Flashpoints (last boss reward weekly limits on veteran/master mode, has to be grouped with a subscriber)

    - crafting (but nobody should play SWTOR for the crafting, nobody)

    - lots of money (escrow limit)


     The rest are QoL and small cosmetic things (ex: title) that can be unlocked via cartel coins (aka add a security key to get 100 cartel coins/month) or a the referred link bundle.

    You also gain credits and XP/Renown slower, but unless you want to start to play SW barbies credits isn't really needed and you gain XP way too fast in the game regardless if you sub or not.


    Thanks for listing them.  The only one I even knew about was the currency cap but I don't think I've ever actually bought anything from a vendor so it's just been increasing all this time and then they raised the cap.

    Somekind of chat restriction used to be talked about, but I've always been able to chat / ask questions so not sure what was ever up with that.

    XP gain is crazy fast.  Only game I've know that's come out and said you don't really need to even bother with side quests.



    I forgot the chat restrictions. F2P/Preferred needs to wait until level 25. Then there are timers (1 minutes for F2P and a few seconds for Preferred). These exist to counter free accounts from spamming...and the game has plenty enough of goldspammers despite those.


    You used to have to do all the side quests before 4.0. The original leveling was super slow and grindy. Not just the XP gain, killing enemies was slow too.
  • Methos12Methos12 Member UncommonPosts: 1,244
    Hold on, what Steam achievements?
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  • LobotomistLobotomist Member EpicPosts: 5,980
    azarhal said:
    Nebless said:

    It's a weird hybrid of free to play. You can play up to a certain level for free and you are locked out of a lot of features unless you sub.
    I've only played it Free since I started and have my main (BH) up to 51 or 52 now and have never noticed any of the restrictions people talk about holding me back.
    The F2P/Preferred restrictions only affect people who wants to do
    - raids (require a sub),
    - PvP (weekly limit for matches unless grouped with a subscriber)
    - Flashpoints (last boss reward weekly limits on veteran/master mode, has to be grouped with a subscriber)
    - crafting (but nobody should play SWTOR for the crafting, nobody)
    - lots of money (escrow limit)

     The rest are QoL and small cosmetic things (ex: title) that can be unlocked via cartel coins (aka add a security key to get 100 cartel coins/month) or a the referred link bundle.

    You also gain credits and XP/Renown slower, but unless you want to start to play SW barbies credits isn't really needed and you gain XP way too fast in the game regardless if you sub or not.

    What about restriction

    1. That limits number of hotbars as F2P player. SO you can not have all your skills ( that you need to play ) active for use in combat

    2. Not able to do certain type of quests, that serve as XP filler. Making you constantly underleveled for Story missions. And forcing you to grind mobs ( which is not rewarded with optimal XP since SWTOR is Quest based MMO )



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