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Chill and Teo are joined by Hyp and Red to reminisce about SWTOR’s first year. We also discuss a few things that we’d like to see added to the game in the coming months.

1. Introduction

2. The Holofeed

• BioWare released the Free-to-play Preview Episode 3 trailer (also on YouTube).
• TORWars published an interview with SWTOR’s Executive Producer, Jeff Hickman.
• You have until 2 January 2013 to submit first anniversary celebration screenshots to BioWare.

3. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @Bytorsnowdog (Snowy), @ForceChuckle, @StoleTarts (Megan), @EmpireDivider (Chong), @Voyak, @Dimbo56, @AHlaenxna (Vis), @hamb0ne10, @rbleamon (Ray Leamon) and @MikeG_75.

An old friend of ours, @Lexx_Sylveste, sent us the following image:

4. Sarlacc Digest

The following events from SWTOR’s first year was derived from Dulfy’s Half year of SWTOR, a timeline of major events, along with our own show notes that documented the news as it happened.

• Dec 13: Early access begins
• Dec 20: Launch
  • operations: Eternity Vault (5) and Karagga’s Palace (3)
• Jan 3: 215 operation SWTOR servers (124 in US and 91 in Europe)
• Jan 18: Patch 1.1 “Rise of the Rakghouls” [launch + 4 weeks]
  • operations: adds 2 more bosses to Karagga’s Palace (5)
  • Flashpoint: Kaon Under Siege
  • level 50s get their own PvP bracket (separate from levels 10-49)
• Feb 2: EA earnings call (over 2 million in SWTOR sales, and currently 1.7 million active subscribers.)
• Mar 1: Australian servers opened (without server transfers)
• Mar 5: Guild Summit
• Apr 12: Patch 1.2 “Legacy” [12 weeks since 1.1, 16 weeks from launch]
  • legacy system
  • operation: Explosive Conflict (4)
  • Flashpoint: Lost Island
  • warzone: Novarre Coast
  • new daily area: The Black Hole on Corellia
  • guild banks
  • interface editor
  • Sprint at level 1
  • combat log
  • Ilum “decommissioned” by removing dailies/weeklies
• Apr 15: Live event: Rakghoul Plague Outbreak
• Apr 18: Transfers to the Oceanic servers
• Apr 22: Free 30 days of game time
• Apr 24: Daniel Erickson: sub numbers not dropped, but peak concurrent users down
• May 7: EA earnings call (1.3 million subscribers)
• May 22: Layoffs
• Jun 4: During E3 2012, announced Makeb, new operation (Terror from Beyond), new warzone (Ancient Hypergate), new species (Cathar), new companion (HK-51)
• Jun 12: First server transfers (moved from Space Slug to The Harbinger, old servers left open)
• Jun 26: Patch 1.3 “Allies” [10 weeks since 1.2, 26 weeks from launch]
  • group finder
  • character-specific legacy perks
  • Alderaan updated to allow same-faction matches (previously just Hutt Ball)
  • augment kits
  • ranked warzones (pulled from 1.2, now here, pre-season)
  • single neutral GTN
• Jul 10: Mergers coming “later this summer”, origin servers locked to new characters
• Jul 10: Free trial to level 15, rewards Kurtob Alliance Speeder
• Jul 18: More layoffs
• Jul 31: EA earnings call, announcement of SWTOR going free-to-play in November
• Aug 14: Grand Acquisitions Race
• Sep 17: Server consolidation, 12 characters per server
• Sep 26: Patch 1.4 “Terror from Beyond” [13 weeks since 1.3, 39 weeks from launch, 6 weeks after Grand Acquisitions Race]
  • operation: Terror from Beyond (5)
  • group finder gains “previous location” feature
  • delayed binding of BoP gear from flashpoints/operations
• Oct 30: Disney acquires Star Wars
• Nov 15: Patch 1.5 “HK-51 Activated” [7 weeks since 1.4]
• Dec 11: Patch 1.6 “Ancient Hypergate” [3.5 weeks since 1.5]

5. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@RystoJ) and Hyp (@Hypknotoad) for joining us this week.

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