Will Star Wars: The Old Republic ever be ported to consoles?

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#1 Shenmue_Jehuty
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I personally believe that it will if it proves to be a huge success on the PC. What do you all think?

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#2 GeneralShowzer
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I don't see how. The thing is a 100 percent made for PC. Can you play WoW with a controller? You can't.

Good thing is that it should run on older PC's and laptops.

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#3 cobrax55
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I seriously doubt it.

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#4 spookykid143
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I doubt it and it's not even looking that good anyway.

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#5 Planeforger
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They'd have to completely redesign the interface, somehow strip away a lot of the button inputs, and design a new communication system so that keyboard-less players would be able to communicate with each other. And that's just for starters. I don't see it happening.
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#6 Shenmue_Jehuty
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I doubt it and it's not even looking that good anyway.

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Seriously? Why do you say that? I think it looks incredible. . .

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#7 Merex760
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Doubt it. The game has been built with only PCs in mind. The UI and everything else is tailored for the PC platform.
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#8 deactivated-5ef52b89b6fd0
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I wouldnt doubt it, hell half the pc gamers on this forum are already hating on it, your not going to play it anyways, maybe console gamers will.

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#9 Merex760
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I wouldnt doubt it, hell half the pc gamers on this forum are already hating on it, your not going to play it anyways, maybe console gamers will.

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I fully intend on playing it. MMORPGs look like MMORPGs. This game isn't God of War. MMOs are never known for flashy looking gameplay.
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#10 HaloinventedFPS
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i heard SWTOR uses instances and loading screens everywhere, if thats true, than its made with consoles in mind

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#11 i5750at4Ghz
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I don't see how. The thing is a 100 percent made for PC. Can you play WoW with a controller? You can't.

Good thing is that it should run on older PC's and laptops.

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You can play wow with a controller. Works pretty well if you know how to setup macros. Well over 50 keybinds with trigger modifiers and macro modifiers. However I don't think SW TOR will come to consoles just based on cost. Would cost far too much to port the game over.
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#12 Merex760
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i heard SWTOR uses instances and loading screens everywhere, if thats true, than its made with consoles in mind

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Zoning when you go into instances and battlegrounds or change planets (I'm assuming for planets). If that's the case, it's no different than WoW, which isn't close to a console game.
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#13 BlizzardBear
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I could see it maybe working for Wii U

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#14 GhoX
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Nope. Unless consoles start openly support mouse and keyboard as alternative controllers.
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#15 TheMadGamer
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It'll never happen

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#16 ItsBriskBaby
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God forbid if it ever did. Look at DC Universe Online, it runs like **** has to much pop up, sometimes serious lag, etc... I like DC, but IMO MMO's need to stay on the PC.

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#17 dkdk999
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looks fantastic but I don't think it has a chance in hell of being ported to a console.
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#18 Planeforger
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Also, seeing as how every quest in the game is fully voiced, wouldn't there be issues of disk space for the 360? I mean sure, they could install multiple disks at the same time, but even that would require mandatory (and reasonably sized) hard drives. And how would consoles cope with updates?
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#19 John_Read
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Ea loves Sony so it's coming for PS3 with exclusive content :P
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#20 DoomZaW
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I don't see how. The thing is a 100 percent made for PC. Can you play WoW with a controller? You can't.

Good thing is that it should run on older PC's and laptops.

GeneralShowzer

The question is not the control scheme. The question is will Sony and MS allow them to use their service, because as long as they will charge a fee for using their servers, you won't see a 3rd party MMO on a console.

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#21 i5750at4Ghz
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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]

I don't see how. The thing is a 100 percent made for PC. Can you play WoW with a controller? You can't.

Good thing is that it should run on older PC's and laptops.

DoomZaW

The question is not the control scheme. The question is will Sony and MS allow them to use their service, because as long as they will charge a fee for using their servers, you won't see a 3rd party MMO on a console.

ffxi is on like 3 consoles I think, for it's time one of the best too.
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#22 edidili
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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]

I don't see how. The thing is a 100 percent made for PC. Can you play WoW with a controller? You can't.

Good thing is that it should run on older PC's and laptops.

i5750at4Ghz

You can play wow with a controller. Works pretty well if you know how to setup macros. Well over 50 keybinds with trigger modifiers and macro modifiers.

Oh ffs, no you cant. You can run around with a controller but that's as far as you can go. I really want to see someone raiding or pvp with a controller. There are like a gazillion of skills, the combat system is made for a keyboard. Sw tor is designed the same way.