Steam achievements will arrive at later date, retroactively applying to any in-game cheevos you might've already earned. EA has given SWTOR the full Steam treatment, with Trading Cards and emoticons and all that guff. It may be caught in MMO trappings, but I hear The Old Republic is a good spot for some KOTOR-style RPG adventures.Īll expansions have likewise found their way to Steam, as does an optional subscription that provides access to all DLC plus a monthly stipend of 'Cartel Coins' and increased XP gains. Still, EA have kept the MMO running with new expansions and story content all this time, with the game's latest Onslaught expansion dropping late last year. It was very much another World Of Warcraft, I reckoned, and the Old Republic style has never been a kind of Star Wars I'm into. I gave Star Wars: The Old Republic a bash a good half-decade ago, but kinda bounced off it hard. Running for just shy of a decade, The Old Republic dips into singleplayer stories enough that you may as well forget there are thousands of other Jedi running all over the shop.

There might be no real signs of any proper Knights Of The Old Republic follow-up visible from here to the outer rim - but in the meantime, you can get some of your laser-sword RPG cravings on Steam from EA's long-running Star Wars MMO. Today, The Old Republic joined that armada, bringing the venerable MMORPG alongside its Star Wars brethren on Steam for the very first time.

But the old EA order has given way to the new, and for the past month, a fleet of games once exclusive to Origin have found their way into Valve's orbit. A long time ago, on a launcher far far away, you couldn't play Star Wars: The Old Republic on Steam.

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