They are doing this for newcomers. Nothing they wrote is about the players that are already levelled up in the game (continuing the story). The lead director is not a fool because the game is still on Steam, which is a huge market and Bioware developed hours and hours of gameplay, that can harvest the subs of newcomers. The points you mentioned, will take months, even a year (in the best scenario) to implement. In the meantime, probably there will be no story update.

Yes, because it was split and decimated as years passed. This is the pattern of their mother company. But again, compared to broadsword...

If you are referring to the topic, which is a different thing than a comment... then I like how you are having an idea about the future of SWTOR. If you think that the latest updates were a sign of progress, then we have a different view of quality. Over that, passing the game to a studio that has the graphics of a 2002 game, is a good sign and yes, successful games are going on this path usually. Yes, like it happened with World Of Warcraft, Final Fantasy and so on when they pass the game from the main developer to a god-forgotten studio (I am ironic). If you are so sure about the future of SWTOR, just make an annual sub. Trust your gut. You seem intelligent...

You are an optimist if you think SWTOR will reach 2027. Nevertheless to add my opinion on the current topic, no. I don't think that the story will continue and the game will be a sponge for new players and their subs. There are still hours and hours worth of gameplay for newcomers.

Today I read the announcement that SWTOR is leaving the house of a well-renamed studio that gave us so much (Dragon Age series, Mass Effect series, SWTOR) and is moving into the backyard of a studio that in its portfolio has two games worthy of our browsers. I have the account from 2013, and I played this game most of the time with some periods of break for approx two years. It was the game that I loved and got me into MMORPG as WOW hasn't managed. I remember spending my last money on items or the nights I would lose trying to merge into the worlds that Star Wars would provide. There were times when I saw that the game wasn't doing very well, in terms of players, yet it managed to emerge like Phoenix, With stories deemed the best sellers and cinematic trailers, worthy of triple-A games. With the last update, when I saw how they crafted the cinematic (cutscenes in-game, and with no voice-over), going with the grinding at levels never seen before in this game, then I realized that this was regression and my fears told me that the game is going to die, slowly. Yet I said, no... the Phoenix will rise again. But now... something is different. It feels as if our Phoenix is tired and it will not spread its wings again... Probably people are going to say that this is not the end... but I will say otherwise. This game will be online for a bit more, then no more content and there will be only maintenance until it dies. Can be a few years or more, but there will be nothing new. So, even if I started with the bad part, I want to continue with something else. A thank you to all the people that made this possible! Thank you for your hard work, for your commitment and for making a 25-year-old me, get hyped for the first time with a MMORPG. Sadly, the Sith have won.

Hi mates, I have played SWTOR since 2013, with a pause for a year and so. I always loved the stories, the attention to detail, the fact that you had voices in the dialogue, etc. The grinding part didn't seem that bad. Now I am catching up with the Showdown on Ruhnuk and I must say that if the first part is excellent, the part where I have to catch Kur is grinding as hell. Literally, I have for a mission, objectives located on the four corners of the map. Once I complete those, the next mission has objectives in similar areas. Once that is completed, the next mission, guess what? Same thing. How many times should I do the same four or five locations for different objectives without a player feeling that this is only implemented to 'inflate' the gameplay? It's the only expansion pack that I couldn't finish after one or two gameplays. It is so boring and repetitive that I can't finish it with fun. This is a clear example that the devs wanted to extend the gameplay at the cost of quality. Maybe they have a lower budget, or they got lazy but this is not the SWTOR I got used to. Not to mention that this expansion lacks a voice for our main character. Sadly, even if I am a huge Star Wars fan, if I will see that this is the path they are taking on, I will cancel my subscription and uninstall the game. I will not support something that regresses in quality which I hope isn't a sign that the game is dying slowly.

Hi, I am using two monitors and when I initialized the SWTOR client and right after the application went into the full black screen when booting, I clicked on the second monitor (therefore minimizing SWTOR client on the first monitor) and when I got back to the SWTOR application, I saw what is in the screenshot, without any option to exit, continue or something else. I've uploaded the picture on Imgur and posted the link here. https://imgur.com/a/CfMjIrs Thank you!