Doing Old Republic... again

I'm watching another Star Wars: Old Republic playthrough, done many years ago.  I haven't had good luck with this because my computer that I had it on (which still has Windows XP, believe it or not) couldn't install an update and the game wouldn't start anymore.  I've just yesterday, in fact, installed it over again, and we'll see what (if anything) it will do now.  My laptop wouldn't normally play it very well either, because it doesn't have a graphics card, and because my wife uses it all the time anyway.  My other laptop is my work laptop, and while it's certainly fast and powerful enough to run the game, I'm locked out from installing software on it.

But, according to this guide, I should be able to run it off of an SD card well enough, or even just save it into a folder on the hard drive without having to install it.  So, I'm considering starting up again here in the fall and playing it for real this time.

What I'm concerned about is that the game is getting old.  The MMO servers cost money; do they still make money on it?  Eventually they won't, and then the thing will be shut down and you won't be able to play it anymore.  What BioWare really should do is prepare for this by coming up with an offline legacy version that they can still sell to collectors, but which can be run and played locally.  They've already done a good job (starting with update 4.0) in making the game a credible single player RPG, and converting some of the MMO stuff to RPG capable stuff.  Go all the way, convert the expansions into single player capable content, make all of the subscriber stuff available up front (no credit cap, expanded inventory, all races and appearance options available right away, etc.) and just run with it as a single-player, local game that doesn't need to be connected to anything to be played.  Can you imagine how cool that would be?

Anyway, I doubt BioWare and Lucasfilm is listening to me; if they were, there'd be a lot more besides that that they'd do; although rewriting some of the worst of the SJW nonsense out of the game is probably too much work to be worth it.

But; what if they made up a sample character of each of the character classes?  A white, male version for most (or a credible alien stand-in; I'd take a zabrak or Miralian or Chiss character here and there), and then added the companions to their entourage... and made a show about it, not unlike The Clone Wars, but which stories for each of the eight characters and their entourages interwoven back and forth for several seasons worth of material?  Loosely adapted from the game plots, I'd think, although I've clearly heard that some stories are much better than others.  The Trooper and probably the Inquisitor need some major rework, the Consular could use some polish, and even the really best ones (Sith Warrior, Jedi Knight, Imperial Agent, etc.) need to be reworked into the framework.

Now, how cool would that be?  A Star Wars TV show that banks on some of the most popular Star Wars content yet produced, which doesn't forget who the target audience is and actively courts them (as opposed to the highly offensive constant "Diversity Is Our Strength™" nonsense, etc.  That's how you save a franchise that's literally on death's door today.  But they won't do it, because both BioWare and LucasFilm are made up of too many SJWs who actively hate and feel nothing but contempt for the legion of white male Star Wars fans who are their core audience.

EDIT #1: I mean, what has Lucasfilm got to lose, at this point?  They've tried soyboi Star Wars.  They've tried grrl Star Wars.  It's a huge flop.  It's franchise-killing level flop.  All that it's done is really piss off the fans to the point where the future of the entire franchise is in doubt.  Why not try out Chad Star Wars?  I mean, I suspect that they already know that it'll be successful.  That if they can actually pull it off, that it'll literally be more successful than they can possibly imagine, even though they can imagine quite a bit (pun intended.)  They need to do something drastic to get the fans back on board and to get the casual movie-goer to sit up and take notice.  What in the world have they got to lose by taking the side of the most maligned, most oppressed, most despised majority group in America and telling them that it's for them?  A love letter to the American male.  That's a Star Wars that can be successful.

EDIT #2: Chances are that BioWare's deal with Lucasfilm means that they can't make Old Republic material though, at least not other than the odd nod or two.  But, they can always do something similar to what I did with STAR WARS REMIXED and advance the setting into the future instead, and get equally useful divergences from the canon as it is.  Not only that, they get to do a pithy one-liner where they make fun of Jar Jar Abrams and Ruin Johnson and their work, while telling Current Year characters that all of that jazz was just myth, and confused gossip about what really happened.

EDIT #3: I wonder what they can do to replace some of the markets that they've opened up in Old Republic if it's an off-line, stand-alone title instead of a kinda sorta MMO on a server?  Like, what does the Cartel market look like in this scenario?  I suspect that using it as a real life market, i.e., spend real life money to buy luxuries for the game would get old fast.  But maybe there's a place for it yet.