As BioWare continues to shift the event of Star Wars: The Old Republic over to a third-party studio, the developer has reassured that extra content material is on the way in which, and that the sport will not be going into upkeep mode. The information was shared on a discussion board for The Old Republic the place the sport’s director, Keith Kanneg, addressed among the considerations and rumors surrounding the sport’s transfer.
We reported on June 7 that The Old Republic can be switching improvement over to Broadsword Online Games. The on-line MMO-RPG, which launched over 11 years in the past, was initially developed by BioWare and printed by Electronic Arts (EA). However, with BioWare shifting its focus onto the event of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, and the following Mass Effect, EA has made an settlement to maneuver improvement to Broadsword.
On June 20, Keith Kanneg supplied a improvement replace on Star Wars: The Old Republic. He acknowledged “This isn’t the start of the top,” however moderately, “This actually is a brand new starting.” When requested if The Old Republic was going into upkeep mode, the director had this to say:
“Absolutely not. As I’ve mentioned earlier than, we’re engaged on future plans together with extra story and modernization initiatives for the sport. We’ve upgraded the sport to 64-bit, and are engaged on transferring the servers to the cloud, and there are extra content material and tech updates on the way in which.
Moving to a 3rd celebration studio would permit us numerous artistic freedom, and we’re very a lot wanting ahead to the alternatives that might be open to us.”
It additionally seems that Kanneg and his staff, quickly to be working below Broadsword, have many plans for the sport, together with story content material for the following few years. The sport simply launched its 7.3 replace, however as he additionally acknowledged, extra updates are coming as properly:
“You can anticipate [update] 7.3.1 in direction of the top of the summer time, with the story persevering with in 7.4 on its heels as we enter the vacations. Also on the tech aspect, we’re engaged on additional updates comparable to improved integrations with Steam and updating to DirectX 12. We’ll begin speaking about all of this and extra within the coming weeks.”
Star Wars: The Old Republic lately launched the “Legacy of the Sith” growth final 12 months that included a brand new storyline, planets, and an replace to the category programs. We can probably anticipate much more consideration drawn to The Old Republic period sooner or later as Lucasfilm additionally made it a part of its official new Star Wars franchise timeline which was unveiled at this 12 months’s Star Wars Celebration.
Jay Goodearl’s earliest reminiscence is of his father studying out to him the opening crawl to The Phantom Menace when he was simply two years outdated. He has been a Star Wars fan ever since.
