A La Critty
Every week — now every two weeks — the developers at Star Wars: The Old Republic sit down to answer the fan questions. This week, we dive into some technobabble from not the developer but from the hosts. Combat developer Austin Peckenpaugh [...]
Elder Scrolls Online
As Gary Gannon said in the video: Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week, you know that an Elder Scrolls MMORPG is in the works. Our panel for This Week In MMO would be remiss if it didn’t talk about this franchise hitting [...]
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 [...]
Down 25%
Electronic Arts had just finished up its fiscal year-end conference call just before the start of the show. Hot off the presses — Star Wars: The Old Republic sits at 1.3 million subscriptions.
The unfortunate thing about that number is that it really [...]
Patch Notes 1.2.2
The developers at Star Wars: The Old Republic updated the game once again. Patch 1.2.2 gives us some much-needed bug fixes and a few improvements to the Trooper and Force-wielding classes.
Sorry, no ranked warzones, yet.
Check out the full notes below.
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SWTOR Expansion?
During the weekly Q&A for Star Wars: The Old Republic, Game Designer Daniel Erickson spoke of new species coming to the game by the end of the year.
This kind of major change to the game prompted the panel to think of an expansion.
Is it possible [...]
MapleStory To Own The Force?
Will your Jedi Knight be fighting mushrooms in Update 1.3?
Probably not, but Gamespot is reporting that MapleStory and Vindictus creator Nexon has made an offer to purchase Electronic Arts for an undisclosed sum of money. The source of the information [...]
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 [...]
