Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

So will there be separate Republic and Empire storylines?

Honestly, I'll be glad to be away from Zakuul. I've mostly disliked the whole experience. I wonder when we'll get more info on the expansion and a release date? Maybe at E3?

I have been a Star Wars geek for as long as I can remember; going back to Republic vs. Empire is nothing new. In fact, it always seems to be a story line that comes up every three or so arc's in the Star Wars timeline/universe.

Great Hyperspace War, Republic versus Empire... Okay; Mandalorian War, Republic versus Mandalorian's, that was an interesting five minutes; Jedi Civil War, Republic versus Sith Empire, okay, I can understand the Empire wanting revenge; Dark Wars, Republic versus whomever was left of the Sith Empire, okay I guess they want to keep this going; Great Galactic War, Republic versus Empire, the bad guys recover the Empire and do the same stuff again... AGAIN; Cold War, Republic versus Empire, fake cease fire; Galactic War, Republic versus Empire, basically Great Galactic War 2.0; Revolt against the Eternal Empire, multiple parties versus Eternal Empire, finally a change of pace after so long; unknown, we will see; New Sith Wars, Republic versus New Sith Empire, again? ... AGAIN?!?! Mandalorian Civil War, Mandalorian's versus Mandalorian's, long over due change of pace arc that lasted all but five minutes; Clone Wars, Republic versus Not Republic (Separatists), another change of pace, except this time two democracies fight each other, both lose, but here is the funny part... the Empire returns, but instead of "Sith Empire", it is now called "Galactic Empire"... Wooo; Galactic Civil War, Alliance to Restore Republic versus Galactic Empire, remnants of the former Republic band together, defeat the Empire, and restore... You guessed it... the Galactic Republic. Except now it is called "New Republic", most likely for P.R. reasons; Cold War, Republic versus First Order, Imperial remnants pull a "Rebel Alliance" and form the First Order -- which is basically Empire 2.0 -- to fight the Republic in minor ways; Resistance-First Order War, Resistance versus First Order, the Republic is defeated again, the Resistance loses -- and grows smaller and smaller because of plot reasons -- the First Order dominates and corrupts, and it ends on a cliffhanger that the Resistance can... rebuild... Oh gee, I wonder what they could rebuilding... ... ...

I am not saying I hate Star Wars -- I, in fact, love it greatly -- I just think it is silly to be surprised when people point out how the story is going back to the Republic versus Empire. Are you really surprised by that?

I don't think anyone is surprised.  There are a lot of people who have been asking to go back to it since the Zakuul stuff came out of left field. 

I personally am just concerned about how things (like the Alliance, and all of our comps, and certain decisions of who to side with during Iokath, etc) are handled.  Don't have a ton of faith in the team at this point.  We will see though.  Honestly I am excited that we're getting an expansion at all.  :heh:

Just when I'm about to be out, they pull me back in:

www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20180329

Ha, eat it elitists! "Muh exclusives" is dead, or dying.

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One thing Shadows of Revan did well was soloable flashpoints.  Including being able to face Revan solo.

Nico, yes you get him during the KotFE story but subs could get him early as well as when he was first advertised as a companion Bioware bungled the wording and were forced to give a token so you could summon him early, like level 1 early. As for Shae, I can't remember if she was an exclusive sub reward or not. Not that it really matters as you still have to be subbed to get them with the new promotion anyway.

Yes! Allow you to experience the story without having some idiot shouting in the chatbox: "SKIP! SPACEBAR!" or crying about how the tank or healer sucks and it wasn't his/her fault for being dumb enough to stay in the middle of the boss aoe attack.

I did liked the Eternal Throne story, i found it handmade to the JK. Only problem was it made no sense for half the classes who weren't force users.

They're having a big sale on the CM. Almost everything they've ever had will be available for purchase. I might look up a few armor sets and jump on them. Wish they would do the 50% off collections with it

I already had Nico and Shae and I don't care if they make them available to everyone. It's not like they're special anymore anyways, what with our 847 companions that don't speak or interact with us and all do the same thing

I mostly finished my Inqui story...

Yes, but at least Ops do you the common courtesy of letting you know it's group content and it's framed that way from the start. The building-sized multi-million HP thing is there to facilitate multiple people beating on it. It's still wank, storywise, but it justifies itself on multiplayer gameplay.

The Revan fight has no such justification, in fact it specifically spurns it as it forces you to do it solo. It's pure wank, because Revan.

Almost everything - except the stuff I wanted to buy.    Ah well,  they saved me some $$, so I suppose I should be grateful.

I don't think I've ever used Nico or Shae.  Don't care who has them.  I would like to see them introduce more sub rewards though.  This offering seems like it was a desperate move to bring back a few subs/keep a few subs around until at least the May patch.  They'll have to come up with something more to keep people around after that though, considering the expansion isn't likely to drop before the end of summer, if then.