After greater than a decade on the helm of Star Wars: The Outdated Republic, BioWare is handing the reins of the MMO to a third-party studio, rumoured to be Broadsword On-line Video games. This has naturally left the sport’s assortment of Jedi, smugglers and different adventurers questioning what this implies for the way forward for The Outdated Republic, and a latest developer replace makes an attempt to alleviate fears that it is going to be shunted into upkeep mode and left to stagnate.
“As I’ve mentioned earlier than, we’re engaged on future plans together with extra story and modernization initiatives for the sport,” says recreation director Keith Kanneg. “We have upgraded the sport to 64-bit, and are engaged on shifting the servers to the cloud, and there are extra content material and tech updates on the way in which.”
He provides that shifting improvement to a third-party studio permits for lots of artistic freedom, although it is not clear why it is going to be any totally different from when BioWare was working the present.
The thrust of the put up is that the change should not actually have an effect on the playerbase. The positioning, boards and help system will stay the identical, and nothing goes to be occurring to any Cartel Cash you’ve got splashed out on. The servers are shifting to the cloud, nevertheless, however the different massive adjustments have necessitated a reassessment of that timeline.
“I do know that when one thing like this occurs it could convey on emotions of doom and gloom,” says Kanneg. “This is not the start of the tip, this actually is a brand new starting for us. As you’ll be able to think about there are fairly just a few shifting components proper now however we’ve got quite a bit to speak about in our future.”
These future issues embody replace 7.3.1 on the finish of the summer season, which shall be adopted by 7.4 across the holidays. Kanneg additionally notes that extra work is being finished on “the tech aspect”, together with “improved integrations with Steam and updating to DirectX 12”. Count on extra particulars on these updates quickly.
Growth has slowed down fairly a bit over the previous couple of years, and BioWare’s final growth was fairly poor, though it launched some incredible high quality of life options, like untangling courses and tales so as to expertise no matter story you need with out being compelled into a selected class. So possibly it’s time for a change. And this doesn’t suggest your complete dev group is leaving—we do not know what form the structural adjustments shall be, simply that the MMO shall be underneath new administration.
