Just like the Rakghoul event, the Bounty Contract week is also has issues and won’t be fixed this year. Hey folks, We have identified the issues that caused the Bounty Contract Week to not activate as expected. Due to the nature of the issues and the impending holiday, we will not be fixing the event and it will return as scheduled in January. I apologize for any inconvenience, and hope you enjoy Life Day and the Double XP event! Thanks! -Tait
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New Dev Post – The Old Republic in December
The SWTOR team, has posted a list of the events that will be going down in December. There are quite a lot of things that will be going on in-game during the month of December. We wanted to share all of them with you so you know when to get in on the action. Events Dec 8 – Dec 15: Relics of the Gree Dec 8 – Jan 5: Log in for 4th Anniversary Rewards! Dec 15 – Dec 22: The Rakghoul Plague Dec 15 – Jan 5: Life Day Dec 18 – Jan 1: Double XP Dec 22 – Dec 29: Bounty Contract Week For Life Day this year we have made a few changes to the rewards. All previously available rewards, including some items previously only available on the Cartel Market, are available for purchase with Snow-Covered Parcels from the Master of Ceremonies on each Faction’s Fleet. Additionally, we have…
Events and Conquests Schedule for SWTOR
Eric Musco has posted the Conquests and Events schedule for all the weeks from early access to Jan 2016. Event / Conquest Schedule | 10.16.2015, 03:42 PM Hey folks, I wanted to pass on the Event and Conquest schedule as I know from Early Access through January! Each date below marks the start date of the event and they run for one week. Here ya go… Event Oct-20 Bounty Contract Week Nov-10 Rakghoul Nov-24 Bounty Contract Week Dec-8 Gree Dec-15 Rakghoul Dec-22 Bounty Contract Week Jan-12 Rakghoul Jan-26 Bounty Contract Week *Also you can see some of our event rewards, in Archive from our live stream. Conquests Oct-20 Death Mark Oct-27 Flashpoint Havoc Nov-3 Titans of Industry Nov-10 Rakghoul Resurgence Ald Nov-17 Revenge of the Revanites Nov-24 Death Mark Dec-1 The Trade Emporium Dec-8 Relics of the Gree Dec-15 Rakghoul Resurgence Tat Dec-22 Death Mark Dec-29 The Balance of Power…
NYCC Community Cantina and Cosplay Contest
The time has come for another SWTOR Community Cantina, the last on the calendar for 2015. This time the Cantina lines up with New York Comic Con and there was a decent turnout at the Hard Rock Cafe. When I arrived around 6:20, there was already a line forming outside the building. They got the cosplayers inside early and the rest of us promptly at 7pm. We were given tickets for free drinks and our other goodies and Hard Rock staff were walking around with some good food (great for those who had just come over from NY Comic Con and also for those of us standing around in line awaiting entry.) As always, the staff are super friendly and always around to chat and answer questions. They’re a lot of fun to hang with and in addition to the cosplay contest and the Q&A, they made sure to mingle…
Zakuul Knight Armor set available on CM Tomorrow in SWTOR
The Official Star Wars: The old Republic Facebook page just announced that the Zakuul Knight Armor set from Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion will be purchasable on the cartel market from tomorrow: INCOMING TRANSMISSION: The Zakuul Knight Armor Set will be available on the Cartel Market starting Aug 18! Stay tuned. The same page also tells us that the Bounty Contract Week Event starts again tomorrow: The BBA has decreed tomorrow the start of #SWTOR‘s Bounty Contract Week Event. Will you be there? http://bit.ly/1PvNv7X
Gamescom Cantina Q&A Video
BioWare had a Community cantina at Gamescon yesterday, and quite alot of new info is now available. Below is a 30 min Q and A video captured by Echilda of The Potentiae on The Red Eclipse at the event, and below the video,Gamescom Cantina Q&A gathered by Dulfy from around the web. Lot’s of new interesting stuff guys! From jedipedia twitter No new fleet planned but there is a central hub you can travel to during the expansion There are big changes to crafting coming which they will explain later in a blog post. To add to that, someone mentioned that apparently they are planning to make gathering nodes adaptive, give you mats based on your crew skill level and the planet you are on Very early designs for SWTOR had a free roam space where you can drive your ship around and AT-AT walkers you could drive. From Gamona.de Companions…
SWTOR Seattle Cantina Tour Canceled
The Seattle Cantina Tour has been canceled, as BioWare needs to spend all it energy on getting Star Wars: The old Republic Fallen Empire ready. Instead the team will do a livestream with some gameplay of a chapter of the upcoming expansion. PAX Cantina – Important Update: Revised Plan | 07.27.2015, 08:22 AM Hey folks, We wanted to give you an update on a change of plans around our Seattle Cantina, planned to happen around PAX Prime. As we have been looking at our schedule, we feel that as we are just a few short months from Fallen Empire’s launch, it is really important that we focus our resources internally. Our goal is to deliver a AAA-quality expansion and we need to allow the team to put their focus on development priorities, to put all resources into making Knights of the Fallen Empire the best it can be. With that in…
Go to San Diego Cantina Tour and get 30 days sub and some cartel coins
Attendees in the daytime event, at San Diego cantina tour, Will get 30 days sub and some cartel coins: The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in San Diego, California! | 07.09.2015, 07:32 PM Hey folks! I wanted to let you know about a promotion we will be running during our San Diego Cantina. If you stop by anytime during the day, log into one of the laptops we have there, and show us that you have an account and are opted in to receive emails we will claim a code for you on the spot which will add 30 days of sub time and some Cartel Coins. Just a little something extra for those of you come to visit us during Comic-Con. Note that you will need to log into your account (so if you have a security key, make sure to bring it along), we…
The SWTOR Story Panel at SDCC
BioWare will be having a story panel for Star Wars: The old Republic at San Diego comic con. This is part of the San Diego Cantina Tour, and if you have questions for the panels you can now ask them on the forums. Hey folks! As many of you saw, last week we announced our schedule for San Diego Comic-con. As part of that, we are going to be hosting a Story panel featuring Lead Writer Charles Boyd along with the Producers of the amazing “Sacrifice” trailer. What they would like to know is what questions do you have for the panel? The panel will be focusing on the story around Knights of the Fallen Empire along with the making of and the story behind the “Sacrifice” trailer. So let us know what questions we can relay to these fine folks. Keep in mind, these questions should focus around the…
3.2c Patch Notes
As we mentioned yesterday, SWTOR Gree Event will extended by one week due to Conquest issues. Today BioWare took down the servers to deploy a patch that made the possible. Check it out below: General Corrected and adjusted the Conquest and Event schedule: The Gree Event will continue to run until Tuesday, May 26th. The Relics of the Gree Conquest Event will repeat starting on Tuesday, May 19th. Bounty Contract Week has been rescheduled, and will now run from Tuesday, May 26th to Tuesday, June 2nd. EricMusco Unscheduled Maintenance: 14 May 2015 | 05.14.2015, 06:23 AM Hi everyone! All servers will be unavailable on May 14th while we apply Game Update 3.2c Date: Thursday, 14 May 2015 Time: 6:30AM PDT (1330 GMT) – 8:30AM PDT (1530 GMT) Version: 3.2c During maintenance, all updates and additional information will be posted on our Twitter account. Thank you for your patience as we…
SWTOR Gree Event extended by one week due to Conquest issues
BioWare will be extending the Gree event time and, repeat the Gree Conquest next week. This is due to some bugs causing the Gree Conquest issue to end early. Relics of the Gree Conquest Issue | 05.12.2015, 08:03 PM Hey folks, I wanted to give you an update on the Conquest issue from this morning. What we learned is that there was an error in the timing associated with the Relics of the Gree Conquest event. During this week the Relics Conquest event will end early, based on the in-game timer, on Thursday. This was not intended and so we are going to make a few adjustments to correct this. These changes will require a maintenance, which will happen later this week. We are going to extend the Gree event by another week! It will now end on Tuesday, May 26th. The Relics of the Gree Conquest event will run again…
Anaheim Cantina attendee-only rewards just went out
BioWare just send out the Anaheim Cantina attendee-only rewards. All attendees get 450 Cartel Coins! Hello <username>, We would like to start off by thanking you for pre-registering and attending the STAR WARS™ Celebration Cantina in Anaheim. It was a great event and all of us here at BioWare are thankful that so many of you could join us. As we mentioned on the pre-registration page, pre-registrants that attended the event would receive a special bonus. Below, you will find a code that you can redeem on your account page via www.swtor.com. Once redeemed, that code will grant you 450 Cartel Coins for you to use as you see fit! Your code: <code>, Again, thank you so much for joining us in Anaheim, we hope you had a great time! If you are interested in giving us feedback on how we might improve our Cantinas, feel free to fill out…
SWTOR Anaheim 2015 Cantina Tour Flash Drive Files
Vulkk already posted an excellent recap video of the SWTOR Community Cantina Event from Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2015. But if you are interested in watching the whole vent, we have the video for you here. Below the video you can check out all the cool stuff from the 2015 Cantina Tour Flash Drive Files: Secret File Inside the thumbdrive is this file named as secretfile. The tag line is Hidden Away in the Dark of the Galaxy, Remained a Secret. The hidden image has now been uncovered and posted below: Yavin 4 Stronghold Ziost Cartel Market
Stream the Star Wars Celebration Live!
Star Wars Celebration, which starts tomorrow in Anaheim, will be live-streamed on StarWars.com, which means you can get a live look some of the most anticipated panels, interviews, and The Force Awakens news on the planet. The biggest draw, of course, is the new TFA trailer. The kickoff panel, at 10:00 a.m. PST tomorrow, includes JJ Abrams and producer Kathleen Kennedy, and is focused on The Force Awakens. And you can expect to see the new trailer and a new poster debuted during this panel! Of course, there are a lot of other panels that viewers will be interested in. Other panelists for the event include Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, and a wide range of other Star Wars-affiliated actors, actresses, and crewmembers. There will be panels on Star Wars and Disney parks, costumes, music, 3D screenings, insight into specific roles, and many other facets of the films. There’s…
Community Event Pre-registration is now live!
BioWare is trying something new for this year’s Cantina Tours. Starting with the Anaheim Cantina Tour in April is a pre-registration program that allow those who registered to earn additional rewards if they attend the registered cantina tour. Community Event Pre-registration is now live! | 04.07.2015, 09:07 PM Hey folks, I wanted to tell you about our new Cantina pre-registration page! You can find the page and some more details on it here. However, let me give you the TLDR on the perks of pre-registering for our Cantinas: If you pre-register and attend the Cantina, you are eligible for a pre-registrant exclusive swag drawing! If you pre-register and then redeem that Cantina exclusive pack code, you will receive an additional in-game reward. Pre-registrants will get priority access to the Cantina (you get in first!) Note: RSVPing on Facebook does not count as pre-registering, you must do it through this new…
The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Anaheim, California on 18 April
BioWare just announced that the next stop in the Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Friday 18 April at 19:00–22:00 in PDT. The event will be hold at Hilton Anaheim 777 W Convention Way, Anaheim, California 92802: We’re happy to announce that the next stop in the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Saturday, April 18th, in Anaheim for STAR WARS: Celebration! This is your chance to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic community for a development team presentation as well as complimentary drinks*, food, and giveaways. Every attendee will also be receiving an Anaheim exclusive Prinawe Congregate vehicle code. We will also have a special appearance by the 501st, a green screen area for photos, and more! Space is limited so be sure to come early. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by and…
SWTOR Operation Speed Run Challenge
A player known on the forums as Death_By_Smiley has decided to do the speed run challenge for himself, since the official tournament was cancelled. If you’d like to participate, the rules and guidelines are listed for you and it’s open to anyone. Goal: Be the fastest guild to clear operations! Sounds fun, right? Well, it depends on whether or not you have a guild that can pull this off and if you like this sort of thing but there are many players and guilds who like a little side competition and this could be just the right project to keep you and your members entertained in the game. Here are some details. Learn more and ask your questions here. Session #1: Current Operation: The Ravagers (from March 3, 2015-March 17, 2015) Special notes: To ensure the Coratannni bug does not occur, if you have one person leave the instance after Master/Blaster, it…
Relics of the Gree event is now live in SWTOR
SWTOR Relics of the Gree event has returned for one week from Feb 24 to March 3. LEVEL: Levels 50 – 60 MISSION: Explore Ilum‘s contested area in the Western Ice Shelf to uncover the mysterious purpose of the Gray Secant, an enormous ancient Gree starship. Get ready to face a powerful opponent that awaits you at the center of this ancient vessel. Visit the in-game News Terminal located on Carrick Station or Vaiken Spacedock to get started on your adventure! FEATURED REWARDS: Mounts: Cyan Sphere, Blue Sphere and Red Sphere Transport Enclosure Vehicles Reputation with the Gree Enclave Armor: White, Red, Blue Scalene Armor Weapons: Gray Helix Weapons, Gray Helix Lightsaber In-game pets: L1-L Defender, L1-L Scout, Miniature Gray Secant Gree Digitization Cube (Gree-themed rest-and-recharge item) …and more!
SWTOR Operation Victory Tournament
BioWare will be hosting an Operation Victory Tournament with ESL gaming for 8m storymode operation speed runs for Shadow of Revan. Operation Victory Tournament – Coming Soon | 02.23.2015, 04:30 PM Hey folks, BioWare is partnering with ESL to host our first ever “Operation Victory” tournament. It is a contest to “speedrun” our 8-man story mode Operations from Shadow of Revan. We wanted to give you about a week’s notice so you have time to get your teams together and establish your strategies. We will announce all of the details within the next week but here are some of the key pieces of information: The competition will be team based and all Operations run will be 8-man story mode The qualifying heat will be one week – starting next Tuesday The entire tournament will run over a few weeks with you submitting your timed runs to ESL The best teams of…
Boston Community Cantina Cancelled
Due to snow, BioWare is cancelling the Boston Community Cantina. EricMusco Cancelled The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Boston, Massachusetts! | 02.20.2015, 09:10 AM Hey folks, Unfortunately I am here to deliver some bad news. Due to the crazy winter the northeast has been getting hit with, we are going to cancel our Boston Cantina Event. I know this may impact plans that some of you are having and so we tried to make this decision ASAP based on what the weather conditions looked like. I will make sure our news article and Facebook event also reflect this. However, as you know, at our Cantinas it has been our goal to change up the format a little bit. Focus less on the Q&A and more on a presentation or something akin to that where we can deliver new information. Well, we are going to take our…
SWTOR Community Cantina Tour Schedule for 2015
Lead Community Coordinator Courtney Woods, was so good to e-mail us BioWares plans for upcoming Community Cantina events this year. The plans are below. The next event will be at PAX East next month in Boston, MA on Saturday, March 7th at the Hyatt Grand Regency. Please let us know if you will be attending any of these events. April Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, CA July San Diego Comic-Con August Gamescom in Cologne, Germany September PAX Prime in Seattle, WA October New York Comic-Con
SWTOR: Pax South Cantina Tour Flash Drive Files
Here are the Pax South Cantina Tour files provided by Baa’nariim of Harbinger. Below is a run through of what attendance learned at the conference. New costume designer coming with patch 3.2 and a video will be added soon. The decision for action taken against ravagers exploiters finalized this morning. There will be a post from musco about it (no specific timeframe on when this will take action or the post will happen) There is no plan to change the new slot machine’s drop rate from its current form. They are sort of “afraid” of releasing future slot machines (future slot machines for other cartel reputations) due to the backlash and the controversy created by the community. Two more game expansions before end of the year. New Togruta race, new stronghold New planet Ziost in April They read Bruce Macleans developer letter which is slated for release on the website…
SWTOR Gree events returning end of Feb/March
Eric Musco just informed the community that the Gree events will be returning end of February/March. They team is still working out the exact timing, but they will update that information on our events page when we have it. Hey folks! When we started the Life Day event, we got questioned on two things almost immediately. Where is the Gree event and why is the Cyan Sphere on this vendor without it? Two valid questions. As I mentioned before the end of the year, it is our intent that the next time you see the Gree event it will be scaled to level 60. I am here to deliver news on both of these fronts! First, it is our plan right now that the Gree event will return end of February/March timeframe. We are still working out the exact timing but we will update that information on our events page…
The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in San Antonio, TX: 01/23 @ 7 PM CST
BioWare announced that the next stop in the Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Friday January 23rd, 2015 in San Antonio, Texas. This is your chance to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic community for a development team Q&A as well as complimentary drinks* and giveaways. Every attendee will be receiving a highly coveted M8-3R Astromech code. Venue: Henry B Gonzalez Convention Center Room 007D** Date: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 Time: 7-10PM CST Address: 200 East Market Street – San Antonio, TX 78205 Space will be limited, so be sure to arrive early! You can RSVP on Facebook here (Facebook RSVP is not required for and does not guarantee admittance). * This is an adult event and all attendees must be prepared to show ID. ** A PAX Friday or 3-Day Badge is required for entry.