PAX 2009: BioWare offers Star Wars: The Old Republic fans discount on KOTOR
by James Egan 
Sep 7th 2009 at 6:00PM
Filed under: Sci-fi, News items, Star Wars: The Old Republic
We're all about MMOs at Massively (shocker), but once in a while something from our RPG past resurfaces and captures our attention again. Clearly we've got a number of Star Wars fans among our readers looking at how many people are following our Star Wars: The Old Republic coverage, and for many gamers the original Knights of the Old Republic (circa 2003) was a memorable experience. BioWare announced at PAX 2009 that they're handing out $10 doses of nostalgia by offering KOTOR downloads for PC through both Direct2Drive and Steam. Getting back to the MMO angle, there's another 25% off of that for Star Wars: The Old Republic community members who download the game from Direct2Drive. Sure, PAX attendees get their KOTOR downloads for free -- damn you, Kyle Horner! -- but seriously, it's only $10 to begin with. If you missed Knights of the Old Republic the first time around, this is as good a time as any to catch up. Check out the announcement over on the official SWTOR site and create your account before September 15th if you're really adamant about saving a few bucks.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jack said on 7:47PM 9-07-2009
Nice guys giving away free games :D
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Renko said on 7:47AM 9-08-2009
I can remember that their was some content cut from KOTOR, though nowhere near as bad as in KOTOR II, anyone know if this stuff was ever patched back in?
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Aganazer said on 8:38AM 9-08-2009
And the parade of marketing continues!
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argo747 said on 9:20AM 9-08-2009
Did they update it? I can speak from experience that it runs poorly on Vista.
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Vulturion said on 9:32AM 9-08-2009
Steam ahs the technical requirements as:
OS: Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor: Intel Pentium 3 1Ghz or AMD Athlon 1GHz
Memory: 256 RAM
Graphics: 32 MB with Hardware T&L
DirectX®: Directx 9.0b or better
Hard Drive: 3.5 GB
Sound: Directx 9.0b compatible
So it'd appear to have been updated in some fashion, unless those requirements are a fabrication.
Rocky said on 10:13AM 9-08-2009
Both the original retail version and the new steam version run perfectly on my machine and have run perfectly on every machine I've had since it came out... Vista included. (7 now)
yaja said on 4:42PM 9-08-2009
I've been following this, and it has NOT been updated to support current hardware.
It still has no widescreen or high resolution support (unless using a 3rd party no-cd executable with a widescreen patch) and it still has problems with many multi-core processors. Many, if not most of the people that had trouble running the boxed version still have trouble running the Steam/D2D versions. The only thing they changed is that the official "clean" game no longer requires a CD in the drive to play.
Steams forums on the game:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=707
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