STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™

Easily the best sci-fi mmo on the market currently, and a real treat for OG Star Wars Fans.
It's Bioware at the former height of their storytelling capability and Star Wars at the former height of it's world-building prior to Disney.
It allows us to pretend that modern-day Bioware and Disney Star Wars never existed, and there's a lot to love about that.

I played the game at launch for 6 months back in 2011 and stopped as the there was little endgame and content was low. Fast forward 14 years and there is now an insane amount of story content in this game.

If you are a STAR WARS fan and love a good, well written story then this is the game to play, this game is part of a dying collective of well written story led games that no longer exist.

Everyday I have to agree to terms and verify file integrity to fix the game. Please address this.

The DEFINITIVE MMO experience.
It has literally everything,
- The best stories in MMOs (Fully voice acted, and not as predictable as other MMOs)
- Great combat (Ancient sure, but it feels great, and looks fantastic.)
- Fantastic graphics (Biggest surprise to me, you have to fiddle with it, and add some FXAA through the NVIDIA control
panel, but once you do, it looks up to par with nearly all other MMOs)
- The BEST OST in MMOs today (WoW has some pretty great music, but nothing beats John Williams' original work)
- You get showered in loot, rewards, housing items, cool cosmetics, boosters and tons more stuff (And it's not there just to
hook you on the store either, it's actually insanely generous.
- A fantastic mount system
- A BRILLIANT housing system with decoration that can be gained through crafting and rewards.
- Lots and LOTS of F2P content
- A wonderful monetization model where once you sub for a single month, you gain and keep access to ALL expansion
content forever. (Looking at you ESO, this is the way to do it correctly)
- A metric TON of content (Truly with 8 class stories to play entirely for free, spanning 100s of hours, this has more content
than most paid games)
- A thriving world (Believe it or not, you will run into other players at nearly every instance of the game, still. Not the
biggest playerbase, but a very consistent one.)
- THE MOST ELABORATE IN UNIVERSE SW STORY THAT ISN'T TAINTED BY DISNEY OUTSIDE OF THE ORIGINAL 6 MOVIES.
(If you despise Disney SW and love the originals, this is for you 100%. It's the best SW story content outside of KOTOR
and the original movies.)
Some possible negatives or things to consider;
- Cash shop (it's F2P, so it's a given, and prices are....all over the place, but there are daily deals to be had that are quite
good, and it's not too predatory when it comes to selling QOL, most of that stuff is available for regular in game credits
too)
- It's old, and feels that way sometimes, but then again, it manages to surprise from time to time with how frsh mechanisms and content is introduced quite regularly. It's also pretty nostalgic if you grew up in the 00's.
- It's entirely playable as a wonderful solo experience. This might be a plus or a minus depending on preference.
Truly, even for F2P players that never want to spend. There are SO many cool adventures here, so much to enjoy for free, without feeling constantly pressured to spend or having to deal with loads of missing QoL. Even the QoL thats missing can be bought in the store (mostly with credits too)
I truly have VERY little negatives to say. This game is absolutely wonderful and a fantastic SW experience.

Poorly managed and rarely updated but still a better Star Wars experience than Disney era games.

Fantastic PvE experience with literally hundreds of hours of story content to dive into. However, DO NOT play PvP. Truly one of the worst video game experiences I've ever had with toxic players constantly crying and baby raging. I repeat DO NOT play PvP EVER. Thank you <3

I'm always coming back to this game, help me
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☑ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☑ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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