Star Wars the Old Republic - Official Thread

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

It's like they're trying to sabotage themselves.

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

They lowered the bolster but raised the cxp gain.

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

The producer of SWTOR for the last two disasters, Ben Irving, has now been replaced:

http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20170413

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

It sounds like a good choice. But they are still updating the game? Crikey! I still need play KOTET if they will keep releasing stuff.

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

It seems the massive decline over the past few years has registered at EA and they've told them to get their act together.

[SturmChurro]

I am surprised they haven't dumped the game down the gutter yet. I have friends who still play it, who have been still urging me to download it again. I just, still, don't want to pay a subscription. I have probably a couple years worth of story to catch up on. I wasn't even doing story when I played last cause all I did was multiplayer PvP. This might qualify as a reason to redownload at some point soon. If changes go in the right way, even with the decimated playerbase.

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

I don't really like the MMO elements of this game though. At best I want to play PVP and do stories. But I really don't want to pay a subscription fee even if I have not done KOTET.

[Sir Adrian]

So, is this game truly free to play yet?

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

Nope, in fact it's even less so than before.

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

You can do stuff for free but a huge chunk of it is still trapped behind a pay wall. I'm not sure what has changed since last year because I have not played this thing at all since like last April.

[Sir Adrian]

I see. Thank you.

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

It's definitely worth subscribing for like 1-2 months to play through the overwhelming majority of the story content, and then unsubbing when you're done. If you want to do endgame after that, you'd have to stay subscribed.

[Sir Adrian]

I'm not giving a dime to EA.

[Habelo]

Just played the last two expansion and i must say that is was really good. Although it wasnt very much compatible with my sith warrior who only lived to fight and become more powerful. I couldn't even give the throne to Arcann which was kinda gay.

The raids are also challenging and funny, and tanking the heroics was also quite fun. I am happy with how this game has developed.

[gastovski]

I'm really pissed right now because we aren't getting new good SW related rpg or action games involves Jedi stuff just like no new TES game as long as ESO is doing well. Damn you EA and Bethesda.

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

SWTOR isn't doing well, so I fail to see how it's the reason we're not getting new Star Wars games. In fact I'd argue the fact it's not doing well is the reason why, because EA would leech the profits from this game for its other projects, and now its profit has tanked.

[Maximus IV]

I logged into the game after some months again. Ahh the memories. Such a pity SWTOR is declining. So much potential wasted because...? I loved this game.
Is there a chance for this game to be good again?

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

If they dump a hundred million dollars into it and hire a massive, qualified development team? Yes. But EA's not gonna do that. They're gonna let it wither away until the contract expires in 3 years.

[Maximus IV]

But why EA is going to do that? Is there a reason? They got bored? Uninterested? Dont want to develop it further?

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

EA doesn't understand that the kind of investment you have to put in to launch an MMO is the same as the investment you need to keep it running and be successful. Instead they slashed the budget (it cost 300 mil to make this game by the way) and reassigned all the developers to other projects and it went downhill, recovered with 1.7-2.8, declined slightly but remained stable with 3.0-3.3, had a short peak at the start of 4.0 thanks to a blur trailer and the launch of TFA, and then started dropping with 4.0-5.5 (which is what we're on now).