Some MMO updates add a new mechanic. Some add a grind. Some add one feature everyone uses and three more nobody remembers six weeks later. City 2.0 was not one of those updates. In a new Friday Feature celebrating two years of City 2.0, the SWG: Legends team put the spotlight on one of the server’s biggest quality-of-life and creativity wins by gathering responses from more than sixty mayors across the galaxy. The result is less a simple anniversary post and more a full community snapshot of what player cities have become two years after the update landed. From “place a shuttle and call it a city” to actual city-building That is really the heart of this story. When City 2.0 arrived in 2024, it gave mayors far more room to shape cities into places that actually looked and felt lived in. Roads, bridges, walls, gates, signs, decorative structures, zoning…
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Friday Feature: SWTOR May Reach 1 Million Subs after Game Update 1.2
Now that Game Update 1.2 is here, the big question that everyone is asking is “Was it worth the wait?” I suppose a good secondary question would also be “Will it bring subscribers back?” Gaming Target said prior to the release of 1.2 that they thought the big game update might cause SWTOR to reach one million paying subscriptions. With 1.2 and future update promises, will it be enough to keep that many players hooked? SWTOR, like Blizzard’s dominate World of WarCraft, has the potential to be “a successful long-term online subscription PC game,” according to the report. This is due in part to the high-profile Star Wars name, the game’s massive budget and the regular DLC drops including next month’s SWTOR Game Update 1.2. This has been the right mixture to hook subscribers, who are paying upwards of $15 a month for access to the game. “The current trend…