The still buoyant Star Wars: The Old Republic community was recently startled by a developer change, but Bioware is now giving the all-clear.
When Bioware recently announced that the now quite long-lived MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic was to be handed over to another development studio, there was a rumble among fans and fears were expressed that the game would practically go into maintenance mode and will not receive any new content, only technical support. Or that it will be discontinued altogether in the foreseeable future.
Bioware had decided to give up further development in order to fully concentrate on the single player brands like Dragon Age or Mass Effect in the future.
Bioware is now giving the all-clear again. Executive Producer Keith Kanneg confirmed in one Forum-Postingthat this will not happen under any circumstances. The studio is currently in the process of helping with planning for 2024 and 2025: “As I said before, we are working on future plans, including further story and modernization initiatives for the game. We have upgraded the game to 64-bit and are working on it to move the servers to the cloud and more content and technical updates are planned.”
Apart from the changes behind the scenes, nothing should change for the players: “I know that when something like this happens, it can cause feelings of doom and pessimism,” he said. “This is not the beginning of the end but really a new beginning for us. As you can imagine there are some moving parts at the moment but we have a lot to talk about in our future.”
The currently planned updates 7.3.1 and 7.4 should also appear in late summer and at the end of the year as planned. Improved Steam integration and an update to DirectX 12 are also in the works. In fact, it doesn’t sound like Bioware or EA will be shelving the title any time soon.
EA and Bioware have donned their pants today and present you a new trailer for the Legacy of the Sith expansion for the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic.
