12 April 2012 | |
Mike
To help celebrate update 1.2, BioWare is giving all current and previous Star Wars: The Old Republic players some free game-time.
Current players, who have a level 50 character, get 30 free days added to to their accounts. The 30 free days begins as soon as their current subscriptions expires, but be careful, because it will automatically resubscribe you after the 30 free days are up if you don’t cancel before than.
I nice gesture, but a bit underhanded as well, as I’m sure quite a few people will forget to cancel it and start getting billed again. Of course everyone does it, not just EA or BioWare, but that doesn’t make it right. If you’re gonna give out 30 free days, just give out the 30 free days, don’t automatically start billing people again in-case they forget or quit long before then.
Past players, who no longer have active subscriptions, will receive 7 free days starting today and will last until April 21st, giving them a chance to check out update 1.2, without having to resubscribe.
12 April 2012 | |
Mike
BioWare just announced that update 1.2 for Star Wars: The Old Republic is now live on servers, although without Ranked Warzones, as was announced yesterday. Also released today is a trailer for the new operation, Explosive Conflict.
On the small planet of Denova, the legendary warlord Kephess, who was hired by the Republic to defeat the Imperials, has united both Imperial forces and his Republic mercenaries under one banner and declared Denova for his own. Now the Republic and the Empire must send in their strongest heroes to defeat him and try to claim the planet for themselves.
Check out the full Explosive Conflict trailer below.
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11 April 2012 | |
Mike
BioWare just announced that one of the key features, Ranked Warzones, and really the only big PvP addition that was to be included in update 1.2, has been delayed.
Lead Game Designer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, Daniel Erickson, stated the following on the BioWare website:
It is with great reluctance that I have to announce Ranked Warzones are not going live with Game Update 1.2:
After careful consideration, it is clear that to make Ranked Warzones the feature we all want it to be is going to take a bit more time.
In the future we’ll be rolling the Ranked Warzone Preseason out in phases, listening carefully to player feedback and making adjustments as we go. The first phase will be full team, eight-player queuing only and from there we’ll look at next steps as Preseason progresses.
Quite an shock considering the update is less then 24 hours away from launching and even more so for PvP fans, as now there’s really nothing in this update for them.
22 March 2012 | |
Mike
Today BioWare released a new developer video, giving us a glimpse of the new Legacy System in-game. The video mostly reiterates information we learned during the Guild Summit, but shows a lot more in-game footage of the system, the unique race combos that can be created and of course some of the legacy abilities that open up.
The Legacy System is part of the massive 1.2 update that is expected to be release sometime next month.
Check out the video below.
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6 March 2012 | |
Mike
The 1.2 Update trailer was shown yesterday during the SWTOR Guild Summit, but today we have the trailer in all its glory in HD.
Also today, Bioware kicks off its invite-a-friend program, where current SWTOR players can invite up to 3 friends to join them with a 7 day free trial.
Game Update 1.2 – “Legacy” will include brand new playable in-game content: the “Explosive Conflict” Operation, a new Flashpoint, “Lost Island”, and Warzone, “Novare Coast”. The next major Game Update will also include a bevy of new features including: the next evolution of the Legacy system, Player-vs-Player Warzone ranking, UI Customization, Guild Banks, and more.
Check out the trailer below.
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