BioWare Has No Plans for Console SW: TOR

[Ghostkai]

I thought this was common knowledge, after all, MMO's tend to only work on PC format.

 

[Thwarted]

this is news how?

 

[DTWolfwood]

IN YOUR FACES CONSOLES PPL! XD

well who was expecting this on console anyways? oO

 

[Deathfish15]

This...isn't surprising.

MMOGs really only work on the PC, but hold on Funk! There's no need for a gaming PC! MMOGs are designed to run on low spec to mid range PCs, with Aion being the black sheep! I doubt TOR will be much different so as long as you have any decent rig I'm sure you'll be able to run it.

Aion isn't the "black sheep", as there are many MMORPGs that are high-end graphically and gameplay wise. Lord of the Rings Online can run on low, sure, but it also can run DirX10 and be graphically gorgeous on a gaming PC. Age of Conan practically needs a supped up gaming PC to run it and it runs DirX10 as well, although it doesn't run well on low settings unlike LotRO.


Besides, consoles don't deserve the next great Bioware game, PC does.

 

[NickCooley]

Thats fair enough. MMO's are a genre that really just don't work on a console. Much like RTS's

 

[xDHxD148L0]

Not too surprising, never thought it would be on consoles anyways.

 

[Prince Regent]

Does annyone know for sure if TOR will have monthly fees like WoW or if you only have to pay once like with the Guild Wars series.

 

[archvile93]

Eh, I don't care. I'll start to when they tell me the game won't milk me for all I'm worth by making me pay to keep playing it despite the fact I already bought it.

 

[Zenn3k]

No Mac version?

And I was so much looking forward to this game too.

Can't afford $500-1000 to build myself a new gaming rig to run it (my old one is almost 7 years old now).

Shame.

 

[LifsAndlat]

Commence saving up for a gaming PC.

 

[Mr Snuffles]

and this is why I bought a gaming PC...

 

[Plank of Wood]

Also it will not be released outside the USA, excluding Florida and New York. But they won't tell you that until launch day.

 

[John Funk]

Does annyone know for sure if TOR will have monthly fees like WoW or if you only have to pay once like with the Guild Wars series.

Eh, I don't care. I'll start to when they tell me the game won't milk me for all I'm worth by making me pay to keep playing it despite the fact I already bought it.

As far as we know, a price model hasn't been announced. But MMOGs are extremely, extremely expensive to run, hence the subscription model being pretty standardized.

 

[BakaSmurf]

I couldn't possibly care less, as I wasn't planning on getting this anyways seeing as how I far as I'm concerned, ToR is a betrayal to the KotOR franchise and all KotOR fans.

Bah, I can't stand this love/hate relationship that ToR has caused me to have with Bioware...

 

[archvile93]

Does annyone know for sure if TOR will have monthly fees like WoW or if you only have to pay once like with the Guild Wars series.

Eh, I don't care. I'll start to when they tell me the game won't milk me for all I'm worth by making me pay to keep playing it despite the fact I already bought it.

As far as we know, a price model hasn't been announced. But MMOGs are extremely, extremely expensive to run, hence the subscription model being pretty standardized.

I'm willing to bet Blizzard pockets eighty percent of the subsciption fees for WoW as profit. Most likely every other company does the same.

 

[John Funk]

Does annyone know for sure if TOR will have monthly fees like WoW or if you only have to pay once like with the Guild Wars series.

Eh, I don't care. I'll start to when they tell me the game won't milk me for all I'm worth by making me pay to keep playing it despite the fact I already bought it.

As far as we know, a price model hasn't been announced. But MMOGs are extremely, extremely expensive to run, hence the subscription model being pretty standardized.

I'm willing to bet Blizzard pockets eighty percent of the subsciption fees for WoW as profit. Most likely every other company does the same.

You would lose that bet

 

[Project .hack]

I'm kind of glad in a way it became an MMO, but monthly subscriptions hurts us.

what do you mean became? Tor has always been an MMO since it was first announced.

Sorry should have worded it better, I meant in the sense of it becoming an MMO instead of another console game like most people thought it would become after the second KOTOR, before it being an MMO was announced.

ahh, so way way back when when they said they were working on a new game in the Kotor universe but before ToR was actually announced

Exactly, at first I was pretty shocked but as I watched it develop and grow I became quite fond of the idea (And actual happening) of SW: ToR