Posts Tagged ‘Bioware’
Dev Tracker – Pre Maintenance Pop
A few nuggets of info coming form the Devs today about patch 2.O, like… What’s going to happen to the commendations in patch 2.0? Originally posted by Ahmad Zabarah(Source) There will be a special overflow cap for Classic Commendations once 2.0 is released to accommodate those with large amounts of commendations. At this time, we [...]
January’s Missing Complimentary Cartel Coins
For the month of January, some subscribing SWTOR players have not received their allotted amount of monthly complimentary Cartel Coins. BioWare finally addressed those players last Friday with the following statement: Originally posted by JovethGonzalez (Source) Thanks everyone for letting us know that you have not yet received your Complimentary Cartel Coins. We are aware [...]
A Trip Down SW:TOR Memory Lane – Hang A Left At Free-To-Play Parkway
Ah, the memories. Chances are you’re reading this post now because you were a fan or follower of Ask A Jedi back in the day. I started this site back in 2010 because, quite simply, I couldn’t get enough of Star Wars: The Old Republic! There were already plenty of great sites like Darth Hater, Mos Eisley Radio, TOROcast, Corellian Run [...]
Character Preview Update in Patch 1.5
Along with the launch of the Cartel Market, coming out in Patch 1.5, Bioware have introduced some new features to the character preview screen. The first change is the ability to turn your weapon on and off. Using the center button highlighted in the image below will enable your character preview interface to equip or [...]
GDC Online 2012: Damion Schubert on MMO Features vs. Story
During Massively’s coverage of this year’s Game Developer’s Conference in Austin, Texas, the staff published some interesting thoughts on a panel held by Damion Schubert, one of the original developers of Star Wars: The Old Republic. During the panel, Schubert discusses some of the difficulties in meshing together the elements of an MMO with pure [...]
Developer Spotlight: Jesse Sky
BioWare started a brand new SWTOR developer blog series yesterday called Developer Spotlight. The team plans to regularly hold interviews with various members of the SWTOR development team and place them in the forefront, letting the playerbase steal a glimpse of the face behind the magic, so to speak. BioWare’s first spotlight shines down on [...]
Highlights from SWTOR Official LiveStream: Game Update 1.4 and F2P
BioWare and LucasArts hosted SWTOR’s first official LiveStream event last Friday, September 21st. The stream hasn’t been put up on BioWare’s official Youtube channel at the time of writing this article, but it is going to be made available. For those who would like to see the stream now, check out Dulfy’s video. If you’d [...]
Monthly SWTOR LiveStream Q&A Announced
Livestreams are becoming very popular among PC gamers, and for good reason– what better way to view live, in-game action along with commentary, and know that thousands of other gamers are doing exactly the same thing? Many MMO developers have started hosting their own LiveStream sessions, and next week, BioWare is hopping on the LiveStream [...]
SWTOR Companion QnA with Lead System Designer, Damion Schubert
BioWare’s Lead System Designer, Damion Schubert, has been kind enough to answer a volley of questions that I threw at him about the future of our beloved SWTOR companions. The companions are a unique and popular part of the SWTOR game experience and as the game is tweaked and updated, many players are wondering how [...]
MMORPG.com’s Free-to-Play Interview
Last week, MMORPG.com interviewed BioWare’s Jeff Hickman, Executive Producer of SWTOR and Matthew Bromberg, Studio General Manager on some of the company’s plans and philosophies behind the move to free to play. In the interview, the duo were asked to discuss their plans for aggressive content updates and Cartel Coin items as well as some [...]
SWTOR Goes F2P – Investor and Fan Reactions
The MMO community has had a lot to say about Tuesday’s announcement since it went live. Many opinions are negative, many are encouragingly positive, and many lie somewhere in between. Most of us, I think, knew in the back of our minds that this may very well happen– the warning signs were there, after all– [...]
The Latest EA Earnings Call – F2P Details
After yesterday’s big SWTOR news– the free-to-play reveal– EA held a quarterly earnings conference call that revealed a little more information about the financial reasons behind the game’s model switch. Some hints as to BioWare and EA’s first moves during the switch were also discovered. So, how bad were Star Wars: The Old Republic’s subscription [...]
SWTOR Adopting Free-to-Play Hybrid Model this Fall
It’s official– BioWare and EA are taking Star Wars: The Old Republic to a new side of the galaxy, and adopting a free-to-play model with an optional subscription. This model is sometimes known as hybrid, or “freenium,” because it offers rewards for both free-to-play players and subscription players. Jeff Hickman, Executive Producer, issued a letter [...]
An Anonymous BioWare Employee Rumor Runs Wild
Internet rumors can be strange, sometimes. At first glance, the following rumor seemed absurd and ridiculous to me, yet after it traveled around the world wide web for a few days and people still had things to say about it, well, you got me– I caved in and decided it was worth covering. Now, that’s [...]
SWTOR Executive Producer Leaves BioWare, Rumors of Layoffs Continue
Earlier this week, it was announced that SWTOR’s Executive Producer, Rich Vogel, was leaving BioWare. Vogel was a part of the BioWare Austin team for seven years, and has been in the industry for over 20. The news was confirmed yesterday when rumors of additional BioWare layoffs were reported by Gamasutra. EA BioWare issued a [...]
Rewards for Free Character Transfers
BioWare is currently offering rewards for players who have active accounts on SWTOR and have taken part in the server transfer program (or just happen to be on one of the destination servers). This means that both players who have already transferred and players that transfer now will be eligible. It seems that the goal [...]
Laura Shot Third: Amidst the Transfer Construction Zone
The SWTOR community has seen its fair share of crashing lumber and bent nails flying through the air this week while server transfers have been happening. Oh, yeah, and official forum drama. Lots of that. Always lots of that. Folks who were unhappy about logging in to empty servers are now unhappy about server queues, [...]
The Argument for Free-2-Play
As more and more MMOs’ release, it is evident that World of Warcraft’s success has been an anomaly. Remember when SWTOR was strutted as the next “WoW killer?” But ultimately a large exodus occurred, and layoffs followed. Many have since begun questioning the success of any subscription based MMO to follow. If Bioware is struggling [...]
Laura Shot Third: One Step to Cleaning Up the SWTOR Community
Most of us by now are well aware of the negativity that hovers over the official SWTOR forum community. It’s difficult to avoid disgruntled fans while diving into any random forum topic these days. Many of the complaints these players bear are justified, of course, but there seems to be one common thread among most [...]
BioWare CS Rep Mishandles PvP Situation
Last week, while on Hoth, a BioWare GM harassed a group of players on the Fatman PvP server to leave a PvP area. Why? Because they were PvPing. On a PvP server. No exact reasoning was ever given. Needless to say, the players were boggled. After questioning the GM, they were told that unless they [...]
Legacy Perks. Get ready to get ripped off in patch 1.3
Bioware have just released a promo video for patch 1.3. The video tells us nothing really new but does provide some extra details about the new features. The video has received many dislikes and as I go over the details, you mind understand why. The changes are: Legacy perks Group Finder Character transfer Scaling social [...]
Laura Shot Third: SWTOR Under Fire
By now, we all are probably familiar with the rumors spreading mass amounts of doom and gloom about SWTOR across the MMORPG community. Practically every forum and review site has at least a handful of negative opinions regarding the game. The term “TOR-tanic” is often used, comparing SWTOR to both a legendary disaster and a [...]
1.3 A Stepping Stone to X-server Group Finder
With Patch 1.2 out and Patch 1.3 on the way, “soon” the much toted Group Finder will be upon us. Whether it will be a success or just a stepping stone for cross-server is yet to be determined. To be same-sever or not to be, that is the question. Bioware initially was not a fan [...]
SWTOR Official Podcast: Episode 1 – “Rocket Boots”
Today we see the launch of Bioware’s official SWTOR podcast. Hello everyone! My name is Eric Musco and I, along with Brooks Guthrie are happy to bring you episode one of the official Star Wars: The Old Republic podcast, “Rocket Boots”. In this episode, we sit down with Daniel Erickson and Damion Schubert to talk [...]
The GTN Will Soon be Cross Faction
Star Wars: the Old Republic has two trade networks, The Galactic Trade Network (GTN) and The Hutt Trade Network (HTN). The former is a faction specific trading network, while the latter is a cross faction one that connects buyers and sellers throughout the galaxy. While the GTN is easily accessible at the faction Fleet, the [...]
SWTOR from Pre-Launch to 1.2
After only 4 months SWTOR has seen a staggering array of changes, both good and bad. And while some events have sent fan boys raging, others have brought frustrated players back into the fold smiling. So it’s time to take a look at those changes and how they have affected the game. We’ll discuss everything, [...]
Pax East Q&A Part 2
At Pax East BioWare took the time to answer many player questions. Here are some of the more relevant and interesting answers that we heard. Dark Side Jedi & Light Side Sith A player brought up the idea of ability animations being chosen by the character’s Light or Dark Side. So a Light Side Sith [...]
Pax East Q&A Part 1
At Pax East BioWare took the time to answer many player questions. And here are some of the more relevant and interesting answers that we heard. Space Combat “We have big, big plans” for space combat, but they can’t speak about it yet. When asked about capitol ships “It’s definitely something you’re going to see in the [...]
SWTOR 2012 Guild Summit Panels Viewable Online
BioWare has added all of the panel videos from 2012′s SWTOR Guild Summit meeting on youtube. Here’s a preview of one: Be sure to check out the rest! Follow this link to find the entire Guild Summit channel. Read More…
Do We Still Need Mods After Patch 1.2?
We have been asking for a customizable user interface (UI) for a while now, and in 1.2 we will be getting it. The new UI allows everything on your screen to be resized, flipped and moved, but is it enough? The customizable UI allows for a fair deal of customization, but it is still limited. [...]
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