Fix One Thing, Break Another
As with anything as complex as the database for Star Wars: The Old Republic, when one bug gets squashed, another appears.
On The Republic last night, our panel complained about the issues with the cover mechanic for the Smuggler and Agent classes. It [...]
Disturbance In The Force
Is Star Wars: The Old Republic dying?
That’s the impression one might have after hearing the latest news on Electronic Arts‘ quarterly conference call. SWTOR subs declined from 1.7 million to 1.3 million over the past three months.
Now, let’s [...]
Population Growth
We knew this was coming.
Star Wars: The Old Republic expanded its reach to eastern Europe and the Middle East, further growing its population according to the article on the official website.
In the on-going debate between analysts, developers, and gamers, [...]
Fall Of The Rakghouls
The Rakghoul plague has come to an end with Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s latest patch 1.2.1.
On top of that major change we also see some minor quality-of-life changes for players and specifically the Sniper and Gunslinger advanced classes.
Just [...]
Noob Island
The publishers of the “true action-MMO” TERA released an epic gameplay launch trailer, but our panel still has a hard time loving this game.
TERA now starts players in a 20-minute long tutorial-type starting zone at max level. Mike B enjoyed [...]
No Change!
In an interview with PC Gamer, Lead Designer Daniel Erickson proclaims that Star Wars: The Old Republic has not seen a decline in subscriptions.
Perhaps in direct response to Cowen and Company’s statements that SWTOR was losing subs, Erickson insists [...]
Evolution
Star Wars: The Old Republic is ever-changing, ever-evolving.
Lead Combat Designer Georg Zoeller even mentioned a living and changing economy at the Guild Summit a month back. This week’s Community Q&A touches on some of the changes we will see.
Lead [...]
Talking Down TOR
Cowen and Company, a financial services firm, went on record stating that 1.7 million would be the peak number of subscriptions for Star Wars: The Old Republic then continued by saying that by the end of EA‘s fiscal year — March 2013 — [...]
Facelift
Star Wars: The Old Republic operated its website in pre-launch mode for nearly four years.
Apparently the community team felt it was time to kick off those old clothes and try on a new look for the post-launch crowd.
Late Monday night, SWTOR.com dropped [...]
Mega-demic
BioWare surprised all its players by having an unannounced live event on Sunday — the first one for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
The event took place mostly on the desert planet Tatooine. A ship named the Stardream crashed in the northeast area [...]
De-Ranked
Sorry, folks, we know you were looking forward to being able to show that you were the best PvPers on the server in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen this time around.
Ranked warzones were scheduled to launch [...]
Ongoing Wars
Yesterday’s article on Update 1.2 for Star Wars: The Old Republic asked, “Is this enough to keep players coming back for more?”
It looks like BioWare‘s not taking any chances with that.
Any active account on a payment plan and in good [...]
