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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s director, James Ohlen, has said he disagrees with the “unfair” assessment that the MMO is an adequate effort, but one lacking in innovation.

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Bioware has announced game Update 1.1, Rise of the Rakghouls, will be released for Star Wars: The Old Republic next week.

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James Ohlen, game director for Star Wars: The Old Republic, has said that some of those playing the MMO have gone to great lengths to reach max level on their characters.

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Purely neutral Star Wars: The Old Republic players will eventually have access to exclusive sweet loot, just like their hardcore light and dark side brethren.

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Bioware’s community manager Stephen Reid, as promised, as gotten to the bottom of discrepancies between the “low,” “medium,” and “high” texture options in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Turns out, the “medium” choice was never meant to exist in the game, meaning only “low” and “high” were actually implemented. So, the choice of “medium” was a bug. Interesting. Reid explains everything in lovely technical detail, and much better than we could, through here.

Bioware has said only a small percentage of Star Wars: The Old Republic players are experiencing performance issues with the MMO, and the majority are running the game on a low-end PC.

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“I think we would definitely do it over again given the opportunity, or a time machine. I think we can see a lot of things we could have done differently given the benefit of retrospective vision, but I also don’t think we would have changed many decisions. It would more have been a process of refinement and fine tuning to our plans.Certainly testing even more than we did, and doing so earlier would have been a good goal. I also think in retrospect we would have been able to weight some of our technical decisions differently given that we ultimately knew what worked after the fact and what needed a lot of work; there was no way of knowing that in advance, but in retrospect that would have helped quite a bit.” – BioWare’s Greg Zeschuk, speaking to TORWars on the difficulties of launching an MMO such as Star Wars: The Old Republic.

The MMO’s out now.

Star Wars: The Old Republic is officially the most ambitious entertainment product in terms of voice acting.

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James Ohlen has said SWTOR players can expect patches to fix bugs and exploits found in the newly launched MMO “almost every week”.

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Player Attack reports a number of Australian retailers are offering grey import copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic for sale. The MMORPG has not been formally dated for local release, although BioWare recently confirmed an official launch down under. As games which have not been classified by Australian authorities cannot be offered at retail, the not-very-troubling mystery classification of BioWare and LucasArts title Paper, Scissors, Stone looks to be solved. Go get ‘em.

BioWare has noted tremendous interest in the player versus player offering of Star Wars: The Old Republic, and has big plans to expand it.

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Baird Equity Research analyst Colin Sebastian has said the concurrent users number for Star Wars: The Old Republic is currently peaking at 350,000 players.

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EA announced before Christmas that over 1 million people have signed up for Star Wars: The Old Republic since December 20, adding on Boxing Day that 60 million hours have been spent in the MMO since launch.

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Hopefully all of the Star Wars: The Old Republic fans will take a break from their jedi-dealings long enough to read this. Bioware has been making some amazing comments today about their committment to making The Old Republic last indefinitely. And they’ve also released a great behind-the-scenes vid doc. More »

BioWare has confirmed it expects to launch Star Wars: The Old Republic in Australia and New Zealand early next year.

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BioWare MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, potentially the most expensive game ever made, has gone live. Morrethiel reports from the Sith proving grounds as she begins her quest for universal domination.

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BioWare has acknowledged complaints of lengthy queues to access Star Wars: The Old Republic, briefly outlining some of the challenges the team is facing.

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Bummed that you’re not able to play Star Wars: The Old Republic at launch? Well, Champions Online developer Cryptic Studios has a bit of a treat for you. The company launched a new character archetype (re: class) that bears more than a passing resemblance to a Sith lord.

The character wields what are essentially two red lightsabers, and is clothed in a dark hood and cape. Could it possibly just be a coincidence that this is coming out a day before the official launch of SWTOR? No, not really. Picture after the break. More »

Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz has claimed that up to 1.5 million users could be already playing Star Wars: The Old Republic via pre-access, as the BioWare MMO prepares to launch for all tomorrow.

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EA has announced that they are instituting a two-day grace period for those who pre-ordered Star Wars: The Old Republic. So anybody who preordered the game and is involved in the early access beta, will be able to keep playing until Dec. 22. More »