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MMORPG.Com had the chance to interview Jeff Hickman & Bruce Maclean from BioWare, about Star Wars: The old republic. The article contains lots of new great info, and here is the most imortant information from the article put together by Thrives:
- *Both warzones and GSF will see updates, GSF in the form of new maps, new ship roles, and new ships, new Huttball arena (Quesh), will be a more vertical/three dimensional space to maneuver through.
- *Class combat team is very busy.
- *They offered the interview because of her previous article, the slightly negative F2P review posted here a few weeks ago. They disagreed, responses from F2P experience.
- *Interviewer thought the tour stops weren’t a huge opportunity to ‘drop some revelations and make them super-special for the attendees’. Bruce Maclean stated that the tour stops were more about developers hearing in person. They’re expecting they’ll do more than digital expansions.
- *No new say that story is a pillar of the game, and that last year’s additional story wasn’t an overall linked arc. This year, they commented, would be a continuation of a cohesive story arc, that the work just done in LA was amazing and they couldn’t wait for us to see it.’
- *When asked if the sub model was still viable Jeff Hickman said he thought it was, the key points being making it fun for the let the players choose how much to pay. His final comment was to respect one’s players.’
- *On the subject of all the competition this year, ‘Bruce immediately pointed out that his team’s plan goes out 15 months and we saw that some of this plan was revealed in his Producer’s Letter published on Monday. The big nugget of information contained in that letter was that there would be two digital expansions this year. In the change SWTOR.
Here is a snippet:
Monday saw the answer to a question many fans of Star Wars: the year for Star Wars: the Old Republic, its present reality, and they teased us with some hints for the future of the game beyond the contents of Bruce’s Producer’s Letter.
