Star Wars: The Old Republic Will Receive Ongoing Support
In an open letter to the community posted today, Star Wars: The Old Republic Producer Ben Irving addressed burning questions about "the quality of [...] releases and the ongoing support for SWTOR." In it, he states: "Is SWTOR going to receive ongoing support? The answer is absolutely yes."
He backs this statement up with the following statement.
Knights of the Fallen Empire is the most successful expansion we have ever produced. It received critical acclaim from press and fan sites but most importantly, it has been successful because all of you have supported us through the expansion launch and the release of the monthly Chapters. In the eyes of all of our partners, SWTOR is a huge success. BioWare supports this game. EA supports this game. Lucasfilm supports this game. Disney supports this game. In fact, for a game that has been live for almost 5 years, we are receiving an incredible amount of support from all of our partners. It’s both amazing and humbling.
Looking forward to the future, far beyond Knights of the Fallen Empire, Irving states the following.
The harder part to address, because you have to take my word for it, are all the features and content we are working on that we haven’t yet announced. If you follow Charles Boyd or Paul Marino on social media you may have seen some hints of this. The team recently visited our MoCap studio to create new animations. Charles Boyd spent a week at our VO studio recording more lines of dialogue for future story content. The two most exciting things to share are that our writers are deep into the plot summaries for the next season's worth of chapters and we have started the early design phase for new, non-chapter, content. You all know the drill here, I can’t talk about any of the specifics (yet) but what I can say is that we have some REALLY cool stuff to talk about later this year and the whole SWTOR team can’t wait to announce it. Soon. TM.
In short, Star Wars: The Old Republic will continue to grow and thrive for the foreseeable future. Content beyond the end of Knights of the Fallen Empire is already being planned out and worked on. The game's community can rest easy knowing that their game isn't going anywhere.
