Several key members of the Star Wars: The Old Republic development team participated in a recent live chat event on the BestBuy.com website. Creative Director James Ohlen, Lead Writer Daniel Erickson and Lead Flashpoints/PvP and Operations Designer Gabe Amatangelo answered several questions from fans regarding general post-release plans, Operation lockout schedules, UI improvements, Ewok companions and Operation tiers.
Best Buy ChatQuestion: Why are there no ewok companions? =[ I know they’re not supposed to be discovered for years…but seriously. Ewoks are totally worth a bit of lore-bending. Also, any chance that the original cantina song from episode 4 will make an appearance in one of the cantinas?
James Ohlen: We have a lot of fans that think the Ewok’s are cute and would make a cuddly companion. We agree that they’re cuddly and cute, perhaps you’ll see them in the future.
Question: What drove me away from all other MMOs was the constantly doing the same raid over and over with no options to switch things up. In SWtoR are there going to be multiple raids per tier or can we expect to be face-rolling them one at a time with months in between each new one releasing?
Gabe Amatangelo: We currently have two different Operations in the same tier (Eternity Vault & Karagga’s Palace) and we will be expanding on this tier as well as releasing other tiers.
A full transcript of the chat is available on the Best Buy site.
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Posted 12/16/2011 1:53:17 AMNice!! There was a lot of possible new content there thank DH for the link.
Imperial Agent: Check,Trooper: Check,Bounty Hunter: Check,Smuggler: Check!!Who needs force powers when you got a Blaster at your side.
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Posted 12/15/2011 3:57:15 PMIt would be pretty easy to say that they were known in the Old Republic and then forgotten sometime in the intervening years.
Edit: now that I think about it. A dual saber weilding Ewok is the scarist thing I can think of.
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Posted 12/15/2011 8:40:50 AMEwoks? holy shit no. please no.
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Posted 12/19/2011 8:25:09 PMI agree. Not out of disdain, but out of the fact that they're not space-faring and Endor has yet to be discovered. Add to that, the fact that they were a tribal society during the time of the movies would mean that they'd either be a tribal society at the time of TOR, or pre-tribal, in which case one would wonder how they got off-world at all, even if they were found by some spacer than happened to come across Endor.
Maybe an instance of being taken as pets, but it would still be stupid.
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Posted 12/15/2011 12:01:15 PMEwoks were going to eat Han, Luke etc..., Ewoks kicked the Empires ass. Holy crap, yes!! Bring on the Ewoks!! I'll take an Ewok for a companion, they are badass.
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Posted 12/15/2011 7:50:14 AMFirst. And i work for Best Buy!