Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

Honestly now, lol. First off, yeah, people will abuse this for free CC. But then again - you have players putting a crapton of hours in the game. That benefits everyone. More population = more fun. And not like Bioware will run out of store items when people get more CC. I have loads of it and honestly have no idea what to spend it on.

On another note - I need another Legacy storage for my credits. "grumble, grumble"

Ya it should def help with performance. I just upgraded to a really nice rig and I still get drops in certain areas. But ya I def expect them to break many things along the way.

Big patch coming tomorrow 7.2.1 at 35 GB (https://www.swtor.com/patchnotes).

64 bits client, Galactic season 4, new PVP season and lots and lots of fixes (and probably bugs too).

The new "credit sink" is probably going to hurt new players more than billionaires.

There are none on my server (Star Forge), so I can't say, some of the other unlocks are in the 100m right now thought.

I became a billionaire by selling one decoration item that I got from a crate rewarded via the latest galactic season. I had about 120m before that playing on and off since the game released. Some people just have way too much money in the game and nothing to spend it on.

I know I don't post in this thread often, but in case anyone wonders: I do still play this banger of a game on Star Forge. I still love it and play most days

If we look at their past actions, the game will be in maintenance mode. Minimal updates. Even a possibility of losing some of the content - I think they had a major screw up (in DAoC if I recall) where they started revamping zones, made them unavailable for the duration, then canceled the revamp, but apparently didn't have backups of the originals and never opened those zones again.

So yeah, not really confidence inspiring. Just expect that the game is pretty much done in terms of content in a few months after the transition.

This is terrible news, I've actually been enjoying this MMO quite a lot.

Just have to hope that when the inevitable happens and they pull the plug there will be private servers to play on.

It's unexpected news as far as I'm concerned, as even though the game isn't in the 'big league', WoW, FF14, ESO etc - it's still got a pretty healthy number of players, most of whom are very loyal and dedicated.

Some interesting stuff in that thread. Sounds like the money made from SWTOR has allowed for the long dev cycle for SP games like Dreadwolf, but that may have to change now. Also he mentions working on a game under NDA still - I suppose another MP game?

It's been years since I last played SWTOR. I enjoyed it for a while as a mostly SP experience but I still would've just preferred more SP Kotor games in the end. Hope it sticks around for a while.

Funnily enough Andromeda was passed to Montreal so Edmonton could work on Anthem and they both imploded. And having to come to the rescue of Andromeda had nothing to do with the failure of Anthem, the problems of Anthem were so deep you had to redesign the game to fix them. Anthem was a live service looter shooter, at what point in Bioware's history were they ever great at ... loot.

That being said it was never envisioned as a looter shooter, it was envisioned as more a survival game, something else that Bioware has a lot of experience crafting I guess. Anthem's troubles were Edmonton's alone.

Not sure the decision to outsource the future of one of the more valuable IPs (Mass Effect) Bioware had to a studio in charge of DLC was the best thing ever either.

Not even sure rescuing Andromeda led to Dreadwolf's first reboot, which was to make it a live service game. Feels like nothing to do with Andromeda to me.

Anyway on the topic of SWTOR, this news actually makes me want to give this game another shot. Having a more experienced MMO studio guide this game to me will just benefit the game enormously. EDIT: Oh maintenance mode RIP. That's a big shame

That's good to hear. Redownloading now, will give it another try

I'm taking a wait and see attitude for this atm. But I do feel like BioWare Austin has always been unappreciated and SWtOR was the red headed step child of BioWare and EA. Makes me mad cause this game is pretty darn awesome and I've been at it for 12 yrs strong and subbed the whole time.