Star Wars: The Old Republic is underneath new administration, and the primary change is shifting all servers to the cloud.
Bioware has transferred improvement of the MMORPG to Broadsword, additionally transferring a part of the workforce that labored on Star Wars: The Old Republic.
You can learn the announcement beneath:
Next week, we will likely be establishing our sport servers to be moved over the cloud. This is an initiative we now have been testing for months starting with shifting the Public Test Server over to the cloud final 12 months, and testing a brand new server on AWS in April of this 12 months. We are thrilled to announce the subsequent steps on this journey with our gamers.
We have been making strides in our efforts to modernize and replace the sport. Some of the advantages of this explicit migration are:
- Backend updates which might be essential to the continued well being and stability of the sport will be streamlined extra effectively
- The sources required to take care of our present techniques will be reallocated to specializing in enhancing the sport expertise
- We will be capable of leverage and combine up to date tech akin to newer {hardware} and software program. Through cloud modernization, we will replace quite a few instruments and automation workflows which is able to assist us keep the sport for long run.
- Once finalized, SWTOR could also be succesful to increase its servers capabilities to achieve new gamers
Broadsword is thought for preserving MMORPGs in upkeep mode, however Star Wars: The Old Republic remains to be scheduled to obtain updates till 2025, so it’s unknown what occurs after that.
Star Wars: The Old Republic is obtainable for Microsoft Windows (by way of Steam).
