swtorstrategies.casinowinning.net had the opportunity to attend Bioware’s SWToR Cantina Tour at Seattle’s Grand Hyatt hotel yesterday (Aug.31,2014) and bring you the latest information from the meeting. u16x
SWToR community manager Eric Musco addressing the crowd at the beginning of the event
SWToR’s community manager, Eric Musco, made the introductions and highlighted the importance of Cantina Tours to Bioware as a vehicle for them to receive on the game.
The Q&A session offered some interesting information about the Bioware updates.
In detail:
- Next expansion is set to be released by the end of the year. A date wasn’t provided.
- Bioware is aware of the team is actively looking into alternatives that would benefit smaller guilds that don’t necessarily have the numbers. There is no timeline for the enhancements to the system.
- A button for deploying a random mount from your character’s collection is in work.
- Bioware hasn’t considered a (web-based) global guild leaderboard but it was a feature that was requested by some Cantina tour attendees.
- The team is aware of the Harbinger server issues and is working on rectifying them.
The session also included a trivia question session where Fans also attended from Europe and Asia.
Following the Q&A session, developers and community coordinator Courtney Woods and lead producer Cory Butler. Some of the highlights of our discussion included:
- Guild spotlight featured articles are in work but the team hasn’t made a firm decision on the path forward.
- Raising the guild member cap to over 500 is something that has been discussed over the server performance concerns prevent that from happening soon until an viable solution is identified.
- Bioware is always seeking out SWToR fansites and wants to interact with them as an alternate way of getting .
Last but not least, the team distributed codes for an in-game M8-3R under this post.
Overall, the SWToR, check out the schedule posted at swtor.com for events- it’s definitely worth a trip.
