I don't think they are riding the hype train as much as some think. They are releasing KotFE in october, not december like the movie. They also said at Gamescom that there will be no connection between SWTOR and the new films. It also appears that Disney doesn't care about SWTOR or what Bioware does with it, since it isn't technically canon. Speaking of which, to all the trolls on the SW subforum, no SWTOR is not canon but the Revenant trilogy will be full of references to KOTOR and SWTOR, which will make a lot of it canon. But that's not for another six years, and the most lore-heavy game in the trilogy (Ascension) isn't coming until 2026.