Shortly after the deployment of today’s Game Update 1.1, James Ohlen posted his own community blog detailing design notes on the update along with a tease on future content.
This first Game Update will show everyone how serious we are about expanding Star Wars: The Old Republic, and there’s much more to come. We have another major update planned for March and future content arriving throughout 2012 and 2013. We plan to release new Operations, Flashpoints, Warzones, Space Missions, single player content, vehicles, and companion characters. We’ll always be improving our existing game with additions like guild banks, PVP ranked matches and interface customization. Our Legacy system expands in March, bringing more options and a new level of depth to the existing character classes.
Our Game Updates will also include bug fixes, balance changes, performance improvements and exploit-proofing based on your feedback. We review reports from the community every day and compare them to gameplay metrics, QA bugs and our own experiences in the live game—where we’re playing right alongside you. Although we already address critical issues during our weekly updates, the major Game Updates will implement some of the most sweeping changes and fixes.
Expect a few surprises between these Game Updates, too. You never know when the Republic might strike Dromund Kaas, if a mysterious alien fleet could appear in the Core Worlds… or when the Rakghoul plague of Taris might infect the rest of the Galaxy. Changes are coming, and they’ll affect everyone.”
For the post in full, head over to the Community Blog at the Official Star Wars: The Old Republic site.
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Posted 1/20/2012 12:48:01 PMTOR runs 100x better after this patch on my machine, no idea what it was but color, texture's etc look great. It should noted that I'm running it on a partitioned harddrive on my iMac.
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Posted 1/20/2012 3:02:56 AMThis is indeed interesting. And to all those who whine and compare to WoW....let me tell you this, if you haven't understood it before.
WoW was not a new entirely inovative MMO. It took all the good bits and pieces from ealier MMO's such as EQ and earlier. No one has reinvented the wheel, and there is no need for it.
BW has imho improved and added to the MMO-template which to me is something that WoW (using it as an example since it is the single most successfull MMO still) made far to late or even at all.
BW has a outstanding growing MMO on their hands and nearly only a month after launch they have and are still improving it based on our descires, ingame glitches/bugs which they never could foreseee before the servers where populated by us. Also, this game is playable and has been from launch....not many MMO's can boast this feet. So therefor I am really looking forware future content updates and world events. BW has, at least what I think, made a very good MMO and delivered it in a awesome IP's box. They do justice to the Star Wars franchise and has satisfied and exceeded many of my expectations. So , read my first passage in this post a few times again and maybe, just maybe the Force will guide you to understanding.
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Posted 1/19/2012 12:33:06 AMJ. O. : We give you free bananas
random Flameboy: I DON"T WANT BANANAS, I WANT APPLES
J. O: well you might get apples with a major update
random Flameboy: BUT I WANT APPLES WHENEVER YOU GIVE FREE BANANAS OR /RAAAAAAAAAGEQUIT
seriously... if people could earn money with flaming, 70% of forum people would be milionaires. I think there should be a Comic from Steve showing Republic player getting ganked over and over with a speech bubble (I want to finish my daily, leaving Ilum is NOT an option).
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Posted 1/18/2012 6:02:13 PM"balance changes" hmmm
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Posted 1/18/2012 5:57:09 PM"You never know when the Republic might strike Dromund Kaas, if a mysterious alien fleet could appear in the Core Worlds… or when the Rakghoul plague of Taris might infect the rest of the Galaxy."
So basically SWTOR will get a copy of the pre-xpac WoW events.
Doesn't even seem like they are trying anymore (see Ilum for more info).
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Posted 1/18/2012 6:11:58 PMThey said these are between the big updates, as in the updates that aren't part of expansions, which means this is exactly NOTHING like the pre-expansion ramp-ups WoW had.
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Posted 1/18/2012 7:28:08 PMYou, sir, are an idiot. This is the same as someone offering you the choice of free muffins in any flavour available, and then you complaining that they don't have YOUR flavour. It is this kind of moronic "entitled" thinking that kills all concepts of new ideas.
Go play something else if all you're going to do is complain about what is, in essence, a great step forward for MMO development.
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Posted 1/18/2012 9:01:09 PMQuote for justice.
Although you shouldn't waste your time replying to someone whose first MMO experience in life is WoW and therefore believes everything starts and ends with WoW.
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Posted 1/18/2012 9:36:34 PMAgreed. Don't know why I bother, really.
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Posted 1/18/2012 4:49:05 PMI wonder how the Republic are going to get to Dromund Kaas when they are all freezing on the ground in Ilum.
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Posted 1/18/2012 4:33:44 PMOh noes! "a mysterious alien fleet could appear in the Core Worlds" .... Vong confirmed.
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Posted 1/18/2012 4:35:51 PMHaha, conspiracy theories from Larry and myself looking more likely.
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Posted 1/18/2012 7:37:29 PMI blame you two then. :P
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Posted 1/18/2012 4:39:01 PMWhat are you talking about? It is obviously the Yvetha!
Never mind their lack of hyperspace capability.
Charming... yes? http://imgur.com/r6WrI
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Posted 1/18/2012 5:45:13 PMoh... dude... you have NO IDEA how much I want that... and better yet, let them have an entire zone with questing and everything to kill some vong, maybe an operation aswell.