Anonymous
10 years agoSwtor for IOS?
Just woundering does anyone know if swtor is going to go over to ios becuase if it did that would be awsome
This is a 20 gig game, way too big for iOS, or really any phone or tablet, unless you have a SurfacePro or something similar that is practically a computer. Can't if any of us know for sure if that is a plan, but it is extremely unlikely. Now what would be fun, is maybe a Pazaak or Sabacc minigame, and a way to link to your swtor account (kind of like Rift had with their Rift mobile app, that let you play minigames a set number of times per day, and participate in guild chat from your mobile device, and would send przies from the game to your in game mail, but not sure if your engine would allow for that).
As Rorhi said, pretty sure it is not going to happen.
First, the game is huge for any tablet device (and I am pretty sure iOS doesn't even allow installs on SD cards even in theory).
Second, it is not optimized for touch devices, and would need a complete revamp of controls and UI to make it so (which costs a crapload of money)
Third, probably recoding the entire game from ground up in Objective C (even bigger crapload of money).
I could probably go on, but you get the idea.
There have been rumors since the game launched about having a mobile companion app, which would allow using GTN, guild chat, crafting, etc from your mobile, but nothing has ever come out of those