Things have been silent on that front for a ridiculously long time now, and frankly, with the studio departure of Casey Hudson and Mark Darrah at the end of 2020 I feel that Bioware have either already thrown in the towel with their megabudget failure to build a new live service game, or are at least on the precipice of doing such.
New Mass Effect and Dragon Age games are in the works and there’s also the ongoing operation to salvage Anthem – a project which we know has swallowed up many devs from the SWTOR team over the years.
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One reason why an expansion may not happen in 2021 is because Bioware seems to have its hands full at the moment. If that were the case then SWTOR could doubtless tick along for years still, but thing’s are really only downhill from there and that’s not a good look for any live service game. Even if these were to feature some usual expansion features such as a new planet or species addition, it would still be a disappointment for players, as most would likely interpret it as being an effective end to all major content releases in the game’s future. A simple acknowledgment that an expansion is on the way isn’t that big of a deal that it needs to be shrouded in secrecy, and it has the added effect of reassuring people that the game is still chugging along quite nicely into the foreseeable future.Īlternatively, there won’t be a full-blown expansion in 2021, and that “something major” could just be one or several big patches planned. If that were the case however I feel as though by the end of 2020 the developers would have been more forthright in saying “yeah, an expansion is coming next year”. Of course an expansion is the likeliest candidate – the last expansion, Onslaught, arrived in late-2019, so a two year gap would be the usual timing we have come to expect from MMO expansions. These kind of empty teases have been repeated over the course of the year, but we’ve yet to be given any clue as to what this “something major” could actually entail. A forum post in January from the game’s Project Director, Keith Kanneg, teased that 2021 “seems like a great target to work towards doing something major”, and continued that the team were making plans for “the next few years”. With that ten year marker on the horizon, where could SWTOR go next? The obvious answer would be an expansion, but lets assume for a moment that Bioware might be thinking a little bit more ambitious and are instead aiming to bring the game to consoles.įrom the very start of 2020 the game’s devs have been teasing big things for SWTOR‘s tenth anniversary. It might not be one of the “ Big Four“, but it’s certainly hovering not far on the periphery of those titles. While the last year has been a slow one for SWTOR thanks to y’know, obvious reasons, the game is still in active development and has a healthy population. SWTOR was the first to be released, and this year it reaches its tenth birthday ( GW2, FFXIV and ESO will celebrate theirs in 2022, 20 respectively).
In my mind I place it alongside Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy XIV and The Elder Scrolls Online – four games which, for a while, all bore that most prestigious of titles “WoW Killer”. Likely because of the lack of big budget western MMORPG’s to have been released over the last decade, SWTOR still feels like one of the newer games in the genre. No official mention of a console port of SWTOR has been made by any employees at Bioware, EA, or Disney.Ģ021 is a milestone year for Star Wars: The Old Republic. A note before beginning: this article is pure speculation on my part.
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