Darth Hater

So they should go to certain conventions every once in a while.

There is of course something more personal when people meet the developers of the game, and its different way to even enjoy the game. It's more to playing a friends piece of art rather than treating it as a large budget MMO and measuring it to expectations - all the time. But, even so, people will have their expectations and a friend that does not live up to certain reasonable expectations will not be fun to be around, since its as if being overly nice to them to avoid being blunt about the harsh truth, or telling them anyways and nothing happens - or any timeline for it.

Hint: Pazaak, Swoop racing, gambling, player bounties, open world pvp, large WZs, chat bubbles, player ship customiation, and 3d space combat.

They add that soon, then they can even go back to P2P, and they would get away with it for being an immersive MMO with a lot of life, and options that people expect.

I think its a big mistake to not have some sort of presence at the conventions. They (whether it be EA or BW's decision) turn their backs on the community they currently have and turn there back on those they hope to bring to the game. I've been to PAX Prime the past 3 years and have been at many of the SWTOR related shows, presentations and meet & greets.

I have a feeling that this is EA's "cost cutting", and its a big mistake to limit the games visibility to the fans and gamers.

Conventions cost money. EA called this investment "a miss". No more conventions (presenting SWTOR to people is embarrassing, remember Gamescon...).

What happened at games-con? 

If you could pls bring me up to speed.

Oh, well... 2 minutes presentation and a lot of applauses... when the guy leaves the stage... sad and embarrassing... cheers!

I was more than a little upset that Star Wars the Old Republic was not present in any form at the Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, FL last week.  Of all the conventions to skip out on, they skipped out on the one that was only about Star Wars.

Yup. I too was disappointed. I mean Clone Wars Adventures had TWO panels.

The final year in development The Old Republic was in every major convention in both US and EU, now after release they are skipping many events and even canceled Star Wars Celebration VI - that of all things. I still remember Daniel Erickson and others talking about their big plans to steal the stage on Celebration with something major.

I dare speculate that they were going to reveal information about the huge space project we were hearing about in the past. Anyone else notice they don't mention that anymore? I think the funding for development of that project was cut off and with nothing to reveal on Celebration VI they canceled their attendance.

I notice them not mention it anymore and still remember Daniel saying "whithin the year" we'd know what their super secret space project is. Clock's tickin dude.

Bioware needs to be at these things.

Thnone need to have demos and new info at everyone. So that thgw can get new hands on the game.

They should be marketing they hell out of the game before the f2p switch. Once that happens its make or break they need to give us day oners new stuff we can see or hands on as much as they can even if it is just a tease . Just so we keep the faith the game isn't going backward. I love the game I still feel good giving bioware 15$ a month but I want to know I am still getting quality content got my $$ . Not cheap rushed content for the sake of content. 

Sorry for the typos filling these out on a iPhone sucks