Star Wars MMO Director Reveals His Regret About The Game

What is it exactly that could be changed to make it more of a KoToR game rather than a WoW games?

Are they thinking of the turn based combat or is there more to it?

Wauw, well if it's the case you tried to copy World of Warcraft, you did an exceptionally poor job...

I found SWTOR graphically poor, with repetitive animations (every npc you speak to makes the same hand movements), and unnatural cities and buildings (too much symmetry, often too big), which made immersion unlikely.
They should've chosen a different art style (f.i. the animated series look), put more money into animations and lifelike world building and less into voicing every single quest (just the main story quests are ample).

Of course, lightsabers make a big crowd of fans forget all the flaws...for a while.
It's one of the unfortunate disadvantages of hypes, that as creators in the end you're oblivious to what you're doing wrong.

The trouble with TOR was it copied all the worst parts of WoW, like w/e their version of Resilience was called, and none of the cool bits. (If ever a game cried out for phasing, it was TOR)

Then the money stopped coming in and the game went into maintenance mode, while trying to pretend it hadn't. Watching eight class story-lines, (you know, the thing that's supposed to set your game apart) become 'one for Pubs and one for Imps' and then all filter into the one, bad, completely on-rails 'The Outlander' plot was just sad. Could have made a great, single-player Bioware RPG, but nah, we gotta chase that WoW-killer cash.

SWTOR just became another in a long line of free-to-play games that always left you wanting more than you got. They're always wanting you to buy something, and always reminding you about what you don't have, but could have if you start shelling out the cash. I'd rather pay a subscription.

It was a fun game, but yes, it felt familiar. I got fatigued with it faster than I should have. Maybe it was because it was too much like WoW.

Never been a fan but thats what theyget for trying to do something similar to WoW.

One MMO game i wish EA would bring back is warhammer online: age of reckoning. That was a good MMO but sadly didnt do to well

Another "WoW Killer" MMO that failed to kill WoW because no one in the industry has learned a thing from the trail of dead MMOs who tried to be WoW.

There's a reason we called it the TORtanic. And to think we got this instead of KOTOR 3. Thanks EA! You're the absolute worst.

Yep. I was there for the early beta testing and the game WAS less like WoW in the beginning. Similar in many ways, sure, but it still felt more like KotoR. And then all the whiners in the testing forums were all like "Why isn't this more like WoW?" and that was the end of that.

It's a shame they won't make another KotoR, or at least a new game that plays like it. They're the one dev that can.

Yeah, I wish it'd be a little less WoW too. I get why they copied WoW, tons of people copied WoW, but SWTOR might not have crashed and burned as a subscription only game if they'd done more of their own thing with the gameplay. And even though BioWare was able to resurrect it, and I got several years of fun out of it, SWTOR now is just a mindlessly casual dress-up simulator. If it didn't need to go F2P, maybe that could have been avoided.

Oh well.

Bring back Star Wars Galaxies!!!

I wish it wasn't an MMO at all.

The thing is, why should I play a clone when there is the original...

Also Star Wars is at its dawn, till the Kennedy massaker...

Lol. No people wanted Knights Of The Old Republic Offline.

He's not the only one. I love SWTOR, but I hate that it's such a copycat/clone.

Maybe the biggest regret would be spending tons of cash on a game engine that was still in the alpha stage. Maybe regretting with the art style, how the game stills play horrible even on the latest tech out there. Even regretting that former senior staff went out and did interviews said that there was tons of content written for post launch, even before the game launched.

Yes there is so many regrets about The Old Republic, but the Bioware fans stood by you and the company.

It wasn't a bad game when I tried it out, it just didn't appeal to me as a Star Wars fan or a KOTOR fan. Nothing like WoW ever worked because WoW was more of a phenomenon than an actually great game worth copying so no one ever wanted to jump off it for another WoW like game, it's THE MMORPG and yet funnily enough it also killed MMORPG's at the same time.

If it followed WoW's formula it would have been way better than it is now.

For what it's worth, SWTOR was a fun game during its heyday.

Disappointed they never made another KOTOR game. May be he should've pushed harder for that during his time at Bioware.