EA Staff (Retired)Hey @Zeluse14
Glad you enjoy our games so much 🙂
I'm sure there's a lot of people that would love to play SWTOR on console, FFXIV did it really well on PS4 for example.
There's not currently any information that I'm aware of to suggest that's happening but we appreciate the feedback. I've moved your post across to the SWTOR boards to see what others think.
Cheers,
- Andy -
@NilokTheSlayer wrote:
Hey,
I will honestly say that after seeing posts about SWTOR on consoles, I know people who have played or would love to play it who like myself want to see it on PS4 and Xbox One.
The player base would be bigger than on PC due to the fact it is Star Wars and consoles can be more easily accessible for gamers (noobs and vets alike).
And I did read comments by others that porting SWTOR would most likely mean an entire rebuild of the game for all platforms, an interface for the game like say the one from Dragon Age: Inquistion or similar would work great on a controller for SWTOR, or perhaps a seperate console only version would still be better than nothing. Though it seems like a mammoth size series of tasks to pull off such a feat no matter which of any the choices for it are made, in the end it would be worth the reward for EA.
Thanks for reading. :-)
Colin
P.S. If say SWTOR does come onto consoles it would be nice to play an MMO that does have matchmaking for raids unlike a certain "BUNGIE GAME". (I slate it for that any chance I can)
Consoles being more accessible than PCs is plain wrong, it has been proven over and over that it is easily possible to build a PC with equal or greater power than a current-gen console for the same price. Also, most people have some kind of basic office PC at home which, when putting a GPU for half the price of a console in it, can, again, achieve similar performance.
Also, you can't just claim there would be a bigger player base on consoles. While the player numbers of the most recent Star Wars game, Battlefront, on consoles exceed PC by far, it's an entirely different genre than SWTOR and thus in no way comparable.
Had Battlefront not included space combat in the expansions, I would have said a console (or console+PC) version of just SWTOR's Space PvP would have been possible.
But as it stands, I am not expecting anything coming to console in regards to SWTOR for the forseeable future, that is, the next 1 or 2 years.
Don't get me wrong, I would be happy if SWTOR became more popular, I'm just being realistic.
@NilokTheSlayer wrote:
I just read up on 5.0 because I have been playing Witcher 3 and not playing SWTOR, they are changing everything again!? Why!? There was nothing wrong with it before the last big change either.
Seems to me like a whole game rebuild might not be a bad idea now. Start from scratch and put it on consoles and PC if they do.
Absolutely.
IMO they should continue SWTOR similar to the way they do now: release a new chapter every 1-2 months, ignore any not-completely-game-braking bugs (like they do now) and instead of throwing new CM packs at us, begin building SWTOR II completely from scratch with at least DX11, a 64-bit client and at least some basic multi-threading for PC and a console version with simpliflied controls and proper multi-threading.
And they should get Disney to fund them a movie in the TOR era with a story by BioWare and the visuals by Blur (The company that made the CGI trailers).
I might be late to the post but just wanted to say thank you EA for making my favorite games. Now as for TOR I think all the nay sayrs are wrong when they try and use a controller doesn't have enough inputs excuse. I played WoW and yes raided with a controller without much problems. Look at how FF14 did it look at how STO is doing it now. If EA decided to bring TOR to console I for one would be all over it and plenty of my friends would aswell. Not to mention it should help Bioware and EA bring in lots more money. So I beg of you (EA) pls make it happen. 🙂
@Hud_Hutt wrote:
I might be late to the post but just wanted to say thank you EA for making my favorite games. Now as for TOR I think all the nay sayrs are wrong when they try and use a controller doesn't have enough inputs excuse. I played WoW and yes raided with a controller without much problems. Look at how FF14 did it look at how STO is doing it now. If EA decided to bring TOR to console I for one would be all over it and plenty of my friends would aswell. Not to mention it should help Bioware and EA bring in lots more money. So I beg of you (EA) pls make it happen. 🙂
I'm an avid raider in SWTOR and I also play games on my Xbone and PS4 and frankly there aren't enough button inputs to raid in SWTOR on console and still have access to all of your abilities or do the rotations for many classes. I am a HM progression raid healer and I personally use more than the 12 buttons on the side of my mouse in each raid so there's no way to port SWTOR to console without oversimplfiying the game to the point of not having a similar experience as one has on PC. I also play ESO on both PC and console, and PC has been adversely impacted by console limitations regarding control schemes since launch due to Zenimax planning for the controller audience (I've used MKB and gamepad due to being multiplatform). So on ESO PC we are stuck with the same face and bumper buttons number limitations that consoles have which means that we can't use the majority of our skills that would come in handy during raids on ESO PC. If SWTOR was limited in that way, what is left of the post 5.0 player base would riot and leave en masse.
Sorry but I don't agree. FF14 has almost as many abilities as SWTOR again ppl raid no problem. Second Have you heard of WoW console port if not give it a try thats the only way I play WoW now. And lastly I raid in SWTOR using pinnacle game profiler and able to assign up to 30 abilities using L2 and R2 as shifts. I can see healing being a problem do to the mechanics of point and click but if worked on it can get fixed for cpnsole.
It is, indeed, a good game.
But with most of the servers being dead or defunct, there's little to no reason to put anything more into this game.
As a day 1 closed beta tester, I feel the pain that a fantastic game is ending. But they don't have the population to keep it afloat. Harbinger is the only real place that they have an active community. Everywhere else is dead or dying.
@DarcOssiss wrote:
It is, indeed, a good game.
But with most of the servers being dead or defunct, there's little to no reason to put anything more into this game.
As a day 1 closed beta tester, I feel the pain that a fantastic game is ending. But they don't have the population to keep it afloat. Harbinger is the only real place that they have an active community. Everywhere else is dead or dying.
I gather You haven't played for a bit ? See this link for changes
Harbinger is no longer a server name per that link, mind people are now complaining servers are full , example link
Ok, but they literally went from 17 servers (and previous to that many more) down to five. For an entire MMO.
One French, one German, and one EU English. 2 North America servers.
I reiterate my point. Because it still holds true even now.
Dead or dying servers. Claiming that the servers are now too full is asinine. Of course they would be! They took 3 servers and merged them. They took 5 and merged them. But of course they did. It was a ghost town on some of those servers. I went through entire planets and capital ships and found not a single living person. It's why I started moving all my characters to Harbinger.
And when a game starts having less and less servers, that means it's dying. And refusing to believe that is stupid.
Putting it onto PS4 and Xbox One (which will, also, soon have keyboard support) would succesfully reinvigorate the populations.
Oh, but then it would cost them money. Which is the whole reason we now have 5 servers. Budget constraints.
I don't know if plans have changed over the past two years or If you're still active here but I think not bringing The Old Republic to console is a huge missed opportunity, DC Universe Online did just that and the servers are thriving and very much alive.
It has some of the richest stories told in MMO games. I've never played WoW before but I introduced ToR to a long to Wow player and they absolutely loved it. I believe The Old Republic could go on for many, many more years.
If I was a rapper I'd help no problem
Now can u guy bring swtor to console you should be making a lot of money with apex if you guy bring swtor Ill probably waste a few checks on it
I think that now Xbox is really going the route of supporting Xbox games with mouse and keyboard support to actually play the games it's more likely that they will offer it via Xbox. Besides, on the PS you'll have to make a completely new account and you cannot use anything that you've got on your PC account because Sony. So that's another reason to go to Xbox instead of PS4. Admittedly EA doesn't seem to care how many people they tick off but in the end I'd say BioWare is not in a position where they need even more criticism.
If they can turn that into a game for ps4 then they should be able to do SWTOR i really want to play it on my ps4 i think it should be made for 2020 or 2021
