BioWare Austin General Manager Matt Bromberg recently spoke with AusGamers about Star Wars: The Old Republic's free-to-play option and future content updates. When asked about projected timeframes for implementing new Warzones, Flashpoints, and Operations in the lightsaber-buckling MMO, Bromberg expected updates rolling out "every six weeks."
"We're committed to a roughly six-week schedule for major updates -- a new Warzone, Flashpoint, Operation, and event -- on a regularly frequent cadence," Bromberg said.
Bromberg also reiterated planned incentives for recouping paid subscribers with closed s when The Old Republic's new system executes this fall, saying, "We announced that subscribers who have lapsed are already qualified to get Cartel Coins, which will be the in-game currency in the game once free-to-play launches. So you get credit not just for becoming a subscriber now going forward, but also for all the time that you were a subscriber, you get more credits more Coins. So we're hoping all that will encourage people to come back to the game and try it now."
If accomplished, BioWare's six-week schedule could expand The Old Republic's given activities on a daily basis beyond ensuring galactic victory through idling on fleet stations and triple-checking speeder inventories. The major patch, which includes the Terror from Beyond Operation, appeared on the Public Test Server yesterday after a nearly five-month gap from the previously released Explosive Conflict. Many subscribers bowed out because of content droughts, but BioWare's biggest challenge now involves juggling its free-to-play implementation and ensuring regular updates to keep the interest flowing strong.
