It has been rather quiet about Star Wars: The Old Republic. We take a brief look at the game and see what moves the community.
In recent years, Star Wars: The Old Republic has periodically flared up, as a new expansion or a fresh raid generated excitement every few months. Usually, these highlights were underpinned by special cinematic trailers that also excited the fans.
But that has fizzled out at the moment. SWTOR has gone so quiet that some fans are already talking about an impending stasis. But is that true?
PvP players are dissatisfied, want server consolidation: Particularly the PvP players of SWTOR are currently not pleased with the developer BioWare. There are ongoing complaints in the forums that ranked PvP is basically only possible for a few hours a day. There are simply not enough players to reliably enter battlegrounds.
The only solution that PvP enthusiasts see here is a merger of the servers. This has happened once in the past and at least led to very lively PvP matches for a few months.
Content attracts players and therefore no one is coming anymore: The biggest point of criticism is probably that SWTOR currently lacks fresh content. In the forums and on Reddit, players are craving new content and hope that the developers will soon announce a new expansion.
For a healthy amount of players that contribute to the economy and general activity of the servers can only be maintained by constantly new content. And this content has been missing for quite some time now, which is why the servers are slowly but surely becoming emptier.
Hunger for a roadmap: Many SWTOR players are currently somewhat directionless. Normally, the developers regularly release “roadmaps” and outline what they have planned for the upcoming weeks and months. However, this has not been the case for autumn 2018 yet.
However, it is expected that within the next three to four weeks a plan will be unveiled on how SWTOR will proceed in the near future.
Update: BioWare has since released the roadmap for autumn 2018.
Are you still playing SWTOR? How do you currently perceive the MMORPG from BioWare?
