Star Wars: The Old Republic

Problems players report

We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Star Wars: The Old Republic on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.

1. Monetisation inside the game12 of 300 (4%)

   Once you get there, you have to pay money of some kind just to not be behind the paywall because, if you don't, the community doesn't really have a place for you in their guilds.

   Steam review, 15 April 2026 · 181 hours played · 12 readers marked it helpful

   this game literally locked everything behind paywalls it's not worth in the long term to keep subscribing every single month just to have some merits which already should be free or even permanent once u subscribed for 1 month.

   Steam review, 24 June 2026 · 455 hours played · 6 readers marked it helpful

2. Will not launch or install10 of 300 (3%)

   With a newer machine the game won't launch.

   Steam review, 1 July 2026 · 5,533 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpful

   Download game and then click to play and it wont run!

   Steam review, 15 June 2026 · 55 hours played · 1 readers marked it helpful

A further 9 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.