Today marks an incredible milestone for Star Wars: the first time since the 1920s! Our amazing journey up to this point is one many of your adventures, and I’ll share that all of these years of Star Wars adventures with you. We launched a decade on December 20 and it didn’t appear all that long, but in that time, we delivered nearly 300 patches and are on track to release our eightth expansion. And in that time, my family has grown a lot, including 5 grandchildren, 4 dogs, and 2 cats. Moreover, we are very proud of the SWTOR team, that we’ve been together for a few years, and most of us are working on this game since the launch. In fact, many of the people on my development team are long term veterans. We all love this game, enjoy the camaraderie, history together, and creating a game that everybody enjoys every day. It is rewarding to help a group of talented people who have accomplished so much over the years. Although there have been a few obstacles like adapting to the pandemic, my team has overcome them and they are continually striving to build a great Star Wars game. In the last decade many memories have been made on the table and during the entire game. This is always the key to communicating with our players. I mentioned in my last livestream how much I missed seeing everyone. If the safety and event regulations permit, we’re planning the first Cantina in two years, during SW celebration in May 2022. We’ll share more details as soon as we have them. In our previous livestream, we simulated where Legacy of Sith took them and revealed new characters that they’d join their adventures. We have talked about how our 10th anniversary will be celebrated all year! There are lots of activities, both in and out of action, which are currently occurring from December 2021 until January 2022:
SWTOR Anniversary gun charm available through February 15th, 2022. Star Wars Insider January (#207) Special Edition Darth Malgus cover (no less on the shelves of the list!) Life Day runs from December 14th 2021 to January 11th 2022. Our annual anniversary event runs for an entire year. From December 14th 2021 to January 2023. The anniversary vendor has all the existing rewards and new rewards will be added starting in seven! Our Double XP event starts today and runs to January 4th, 2022. The Cartel Market has opened today. From December 20, 2021 – January 3, 2022. Seasonal items will be available. 75% off every collection’s Unlocks. From December 20, 2021 to December 27, 2021. 50% off all Armor Sets. 50% off characters slots. From December 27th 2021 to January 3rd 2022 from December 3rd 2022 50% off all the Mounts and Stronghold Decorations. Feast of prosperity will take place from January 11th, 2022 to February 1st, 2022.
All this leads me to give you some insight into what will happen after 7.0 launches. Legacy of the Sith will lay the groundwork for many exciting updates that will be made throughout the next year and beyond. In the meantime, the details are not clear yet, so we have a clear vision for the next few years, I want to share the key points of our plan. The contents are divided into two categories: Modernization and Content.
Content
Since the initial update has gone through 7.0, it’s coming to the R-4 Anomaly Operation, which is a new daily area set in a new section of Manaan. Our characters will continue to develop a unique storyline extending through multiple patches in 2022, 2022, and beyond. After the end of the dramatic defeat of 7.0 in Elom, you’ll continue to unravel the mystery of Darth Nul, join the erupting civil war among the Mandalorian clans and discover the true objective of a real Mughal. Having spent some time together with old friends like Kira, Scourge, Akaavi and Torian, and while while working with old friends like this, you’ll meet again in seven. You’ll also explore new locations (some are new to SWTOR, others are totally new creations) and maybe even get an opportunity to find out where your characters journey began so long ago. As a rule, all this can happen across a variety of content types: single player, multiplayer, Flashpoints, Operations, Daily Areas etc. New gear will be available the entire year starting with the R-4 Anomaly Operation. As we add gear progression after 7.1, so we can ensure a larger amount of the gear that we have in a future will be available for players. Finally we have some exciting updates coming to PvP after 7.0 that we’re excited to share with you after launch!
Modernization
As you have already seen on the PTS, a huge portion of the teams work in 7.0 focused on modernizing many areas of the game. A completely revamped Character Creation experience, a new character sheet, big new features like Loadouts and Weapons in Outfitters, and finally, the dramatically expanded gameplay options. At 7.0: Advance Classes, now called Combat Styles. First class now is called Origin Story. Our ability to update the software in the next year may be in the past few years of the game, but these will be major visual updates to improve the quality of our style and to make the application more cohesive, and provide proper scaling on high resolution screens, but we also need to improve accessibility in other parts of the game as well as Loadouts in 7.0. We’re always looking for our visuals more elsewhere in SWTOR: from Tython, Korriban, Hutta and Ord Mantell, we would like to get new ideas in line with the amazing work the team created in recent years. If you can see, we have a very exciting future ahead. If you don’t do that, then we’ll share more with each other with you, especially after next year’s 7.0 launch, then please come and hear me again. Ten years mark this milestone we’re so proud of and we are very thankful for your continued commitment to this adventure. Happy Anniversary to each of you. We wish you a year full of love, health, and more!
