Just like the character select screen

​@@deitus1375OMG its not just me then. i have to mute it every time because it gives me anxiety. and i never get anxiety lmfao

Love the music

We love you nonetheless 😊

WHAT!? I cant hear you over the music volume! Seriously though, its fine lol :D

This. So much copium in the comments and this fans don’t want to hear…

@iv4nGG it's the truth though. I'm a fan and the moment I heard broadsword was taking over I canceled my subscription. If they do have any content Or any other future updates it's gonna be because biaware probably handed them over some ideas and stuff that they were already working on. I give this game About 2 years tops Before the decline ultimately brings it down

Still haven't released UO classic 😢

@@gulfcoastbeyblades2192 Sorry but you’re wrong. And a games original dev team doesn’t move studios with a game that is set to die in maintenance mode 🤣 SWTOR is thriving and it isn’t copium. Is this some sad attempt to get people to quit and join your favorite shitty MMO ?? BioWare has been milking SWTOR’s excess profits to fund games that have failed. This will get much better with a new studio. As usually the KZfaq comment section filled with geniuses who have no idea what’s going on

Okay pal I'm not going to keep rehashing the same shit over and over. Think what you want I'll think what I want. If you don't think the games that they're currently operating right now or graveyard games then I don't know what to tell you as for biaware milking profits to fund other games. I'm sure that they're doing that on their own accord and it's got nothing to do with the giant Mega corporation above them riot? Like I said I give it about 2 years top Before it runs out of steam and the decline gets unbearable. Server populations have been declining for quite some time I'm sure you remember the big Mega server merge? Or maybe you haven't been playing that long so you think that what's going on right now is normal. I've been here since the beginning I have a founder title I did the closed betas Things were definitely slow and in decline during the disastrous creation that was anthem. That diverted so many resources so much money and good workers away from that game. I thought they were kind of picking it up a little bit with the storyline I loved the new expansion thought it was a really great edition a little short but on the right track. If this game puts out any new content it's gonna be because It's stuff that they were already working on before the switch. But I do not have any faith at all that broadsword is gonna handle this game correctly. Say what you want about copium but there's more than enough evidence to support what me and many other commenters on here saying. I'm glad that you have faith in the game believe me I hope that I'm wrong I really am and if it's still around and getting solid updates in new content Then I'll probably sign backup if they add More immersion and make the more intricate and in depth That would be great. I just don't have faith that they're going to be able to deliver on the promises that they've made because time and time again both EA and bioware have made plenty of promises and quite often they have Not been fulfilled. You can use the word copium all you want but I'm being realistic despite what my blind optimism tells me I'm looking at the past experiences and it does not paint a super positive picture. It Doesn't do to dwell on dreams and memories of a forgotten past all you're gonna do is miss the stuff that's happening around you just because your hanging on to something that used to be great. Look at how many people have left the original team. There's a lot of interviews from a lot of different people that have worked on that game that have been a part of bioware and they don't paint a very pleasant picture. There's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that I don't think You realize or you're just refusing to acknowledge it because again you're just hoping with all your blind faith and optimism that things are gonna turn out OK. Bro the workers are tired the coders the riders the programmers the graphic artists all those people are fed up with the bullshit. They were part of something great and for the 1st few years it ran really well but corporate b******* crept in agendas and foolish narrow minded ceos that cared nothing for the product that they were selling they only wanted to pump something out cheap and fast they got in the way and It's never really stopped since

Well the big mistake was that SWTOR generates massive cash but it doesn’t get the attention it deserves and the money was used for biowares other future projects…maybe now they can put the games income to better use. Hopefully bigger updates with less time between each. Don’t listen to the toxic “maintenance mode” people, it ain’t happening, the game brings in way to much money to kill it off. Everything comes down to money..

@@whaterverman479 Do you have a source for this? I'm keenly interested in details?

​@Whaterver Man so this makes sense to you, SWTOR makes tons of money AND gives free money to other Bioware Projects, but EA wants to sell it because ? ???

Imagine if it got the graphics of the trailers. (still the biggest catfish in gaming history😂)

@@ttvkyberwolf6659 man that'd be the dream

Yeah! I wanted to try and gather some facts first haha.

@@MaruSakuraIsTaken This studio only has failed projects they just keep online with nothing new or impressive. What do you mean?

@@Kira110lolAnd is SWTOR a failed project ? 😂 people so toxic and insane . Stop generalizing, they are literally just moving to a new studio, BioWare is just too busy for SWTOR, broadsword will put our money to good use and give the game the attention it deserves. We live in the era of fake news and hysteria over every little thing

@@whaterverman479 SWTOR is not a game that's alive and well that's for sure and anyone saying otherwise is high. I WISH it were different. I still play. It isn't a game that's well off and kicking. The player numbers and popularity is speaking. It is VERY low. The only luck it has, it's the IP. Yes they are moving to a new studio. The current situation is crap. The future situation has evidence it might be worse or JUST AS BAD. There is NO evidence the money will be put to good use and get the attention it deserves. I want the game to succeed. I don't want it to fail. If it were me I would have hoped someone did a complete overhaul and make the game Top 5. I wish it could compete with the Top MMO's on the market. It can't. It never did actually. But that is just HOPES. You keep saying "The best case scenario will happen because I say so" with no evidence or even theory to support that claim. You're speaking out of copium right now.

@@Kira110lol Facts

@@Kira110loli might try it, i played it briefly last year, is it any good?

Bioware isn't going anywhere they're just not gonna be on this game anymore all their focus is on Dragon Age and ME4

@@darkwolf780 Yes, but I have no relationship to any other games from BioWare than Swtor. I just felt I had to say good bye to what once was. :)

Subscriber since early access - nowhere near your achievements tho! Feel like i've been watching swtor bleed out for years: i think it's that they just can't make the money out of it they need to - even with a cash-shop that took over in a way beyond anything else I've ever seen in an mmo. Maybe their failures with the economy - letting exploitable vendors into the game and then being unable to fix the explosion of exploits - ultimately turned their cash shop into something pretty much owned by the big exploiters. Kind of ironic I suppose. Meh - WOW is doing great - plenty of content, build diversity and community. Time to move on.

Same, my favorite era was pre-Kotet. I miss the classic setup flashpoint, companion gearing, etc...

Neither of those things will happen though. Its going to be maintained to milk the last few delusional players of money through cash shop items. Active development and growth for the game is as good as done.

@@matthewmammothswine4395what are you talking about the same team is moving to broadsword to continue on the game . The game doesn’t need any “last milking” SWTOR generates massive cash compared to the other mmo’s . Get your head out of your toxic ass

But its not. One episode of expansion every 6 months? Gtfoh. They need to do what they used to do and release whole expansions like wow does.

@@Theorcman2008I agree they need to release expansions closer together , the mistake they made is they use the cash that SWTOR generated for other projects, maybe now the devs can actually put the games future income to good use.

Unfortunately Broadsword is a much smaller company so this is probably the biggest swtor gets.

ive been playing for 7 years and still havent finished all the origin stories lmao

Don't worry! Broadsword is a great team that does great work on Dark age of Camelot and Ultima. The game is in the hands of people who know how to make MMOs. In fact, unless things have changed, I believe the VP of Broadsoward is an EX-Bioware head.

Well the big mistake was that SWTOR generates massive cash but it doesn’t get the attention it deserves and the money was used for biowares other future projects…maybe now they can put the games income to better use. Hopefully bigger updates with less time between each. Don’t listen to the toxic “maintenance mode” people, it ain’t happening, the game brings in way to much money to kill it off. Everything comes down to money

@@whaterverman479 I remember reading an article with a Disney representative in 2019 regarding the future of SWTOR talking with Bioware, and the game would be preserved on two counts: The rich stories and world building they established at the time legends era was so numerous to be dismissed. It made over 1.3 billion (by 2019) in Total revenue and EA and Disney were both very happy with the financials from this game. Considering the influx in players (From Content creators) that number would be higher in 2023.

@@MysticTrollI think BioWare just doesn’t care about SWTOR anymore and uses the money on their other projects . I believe the game will get the attention it deserves here.

​​​@@MysticTrollthat was total revenue since it's launch in 2011 not 2019 alone. It makes about 100 million a year which is still alright if that number has stayed consistent over the last 4 years (most likely went up a bit during the pandemic). FF14 which is the biggest MMO in the world brings in about 400-500 million per year.

@@ryanglacier30 Yes sorry I should have clarified Total Revenue in 2019 was 1.3 billion, I'll amend that now.

Their games aren't really their games. They're older games they keep running on their servers and keep them going. They're not updating. They're not adding content. They're just keeping them running. They don't actually make games. It's not what they do. Remember when SWTOR used to be Pay to Skin not Pay to Win.. Keep those memories in your heart. Within a couple months of them taking over that cash shop is going to look mighty different.

Oh Broadsword is a known studio alright. Known for being the "Life support" to milk games longer without offering anything in return. Plus there's rumors some ex-Anthem devs will be added to the team too which makes it sound even worse... Since Anthem was the biggest flop in recent gaming history.

Isn't Broadsword ran by an ex-Bioware dev who worked on SWTOR?

​@@IronLordEXOyeah

I hope they'll bring more sanbox elements to the game and fix the economics...

@@Emberheart_No , the same team of devs is moving to Broadsword to continue content . Other games that are “just maintained” end up like that because they either aren’t generating good money or there is no story ideas left , neither is true for SWTOR , in fact SWTOR brings in more cash than almost every other mmo…. Don’t listen to the toxic dipshits who complain about everything and think every little change means the end . SWTOR is an amazing game all around . Period .

Replay class story chapter soon TM

@@Emberheart_ Yes. All Broadsword games are just "There". Nothing new. They just exist. With a minimal population and maintenance schedule. And then there's this "whateverman" halfwit who keeps calling people toxic or idiots for pointing out that all Broadsword projects are stuff others dumped on them to keep on maintenance mode. It is the truth, he's a nutjob who just wanted to copy paste his insult on everyone.

Something Ive wanted for a long time was sound being added to the preview window. Far too many times I bought a weapon or a mount and ended up not liking how it sounded lol Helmets and masks too. Would be nice to hear how the voice sounds before I buy it/wear it.

Yeah you say that now but just wait until weird s*** starts to happen. The 2nd I heard this news I canceled my subscription. Out as much as I love swtor I do not have any faith that broadsword is going to handle this game correctly. This game is going to get very aggressive with P vp is going to get very aggressive With transactions and I'd expect that the game is going to Get very very toxic. Broadswords games that they handle are way different from swell tour and their communities are not the greatest at all.

This needs to be a copypasta on r/swtor

@@gulfcoastbeyblades2192 Good job, falling for fake hysteria. In the age of information any tiny thing that happens gets blown up in seconds…. I’m sure half of the team of over 200 is moving to broadsword with the game only to leave it in maintenance mode 😂

@Whaterver Man you're not familiar with broadsword are you?

@Whaterver Man I think that you and I have different takes on "maintenance mode". Perhaps I can explain a bit more clearly that way your tiny cynical brain can understand. What I mean by maintenance mode is I feel like broadsword is not going to make any real big meaningful changes. If they do any extra content it's probably gonna be because the team was already working on it and had stuff planned out and in various stages of production. That's why I said give it a year 2 tops and this game is gonna be really really different. Weird s*** is definitely gonna start to happen. What I can guarantee you is that as unbalanced as people complain about this game being especially during the ranked sessions. Just wait until the transition actually takes effect. You're going to see bugs glitches small patches in an attempt to smooth things over but it's just gonna start spiraling out of control. I feel like they're also going to make a really big move towards micro transactions. Everything that bioware and EA has done in regards to the cartel market has been 100% cosmetic. This game is not paid to win you can play it for free and you can win it for free . Broadsword is going to make a lot of small changes over time that are going to snowball and it's going to have a disastrous cascade like effect. It's not gonna happen right away but I've seen this before period I've seen different games different movies various types of intellectual property switch in between production company's developers publisher sewn and so forth. It never works the way that they publicly address it. I'm glad that you're still gonna play the game and maybe I'll be wrong who knows but I've been around a while I've seen this kind of s*** before and it 95% of the time it never works out well. I had a lot of good memories a s*** ton of good memories and I met a lot of cool people on that game but am I gonna continue giving my money to a company that I already do not have faith in based on their previous experience with other games? No I will not. I hope I'm wrong I hope that they understand what a magical gift that they have been handed this title but with things already being talked about in the Star Wars video game world I just don't have any faith that they're gonna do this right And because of that I'm not going to give them my money anymore. Maybe in a year or so I'll check in on it see how it's doing but I am expecting a very slow downward spiral And that's a change shame because I really liked what biaware was doing with this game. I feel like they were making a lot of awesome editions and a lot of changes in the right direction to make the game more accessible for everyone

For what the game tries to pass off as "updates" and "expansions" I think most people expected the dev team to be closer to 20-30 people. It always makes me chuckle when people make it out like there's some rockstar team at BW:A that's being held back by that dang upper management, when it's far more like BW:A is where EA shuffles all the contractors and underperforming coders in hopes they quit of their own accord before they can damage something anticipated like Mass Effect or Dragon Age.

Finally some realistic takes holy shit. Have people just been ignoring the history of this game and current gaming development trends across the industry? Well see what this 40 person team can do but really people with all these expectation needs to come back down to reality.

100% my dude it's gonna take you a awhile to get through them haha. I wish I was back in your shoes......

Idk, I think they would just neglect it until it died, rather than making a deal with Broadsword and keep paying ppl

If they wanted swtor to die in the near future than deals with companies and moving devs over wouldn't be the most cost effective way of doing it. If I had to guess EA probably wants to consolidate it's mmos into one place to cut down on costs of needing outside support coming to bioware from companies like Broadsword.

@@BaeBunniIm thinking maybe because broadsword is such a small studio they will demand a smaller cut $$$ than BioWare , which is good , the money can then actually go a long way. BioWare is working on some pretty hefty projects and was definitely milking the massive $$& SWTOR generates for other projects

​@@whaterverman479 if SWOTOR was making the massive amount of money you think it was EA would not drop it.

BioWare is a big studio so one game isn’t holding them back at all. I think the game servers and the small team working on it are just taking resources that EA (their owners) would rather use on something else or the staff just wants to move on

⁠Im thinking maybe because broadsword is such a small studio they will demand a smaller cut $$$ than BioWare from EA , which is good , the money can then actually go a long way. BioWare is working on some pretty hefty projects and was definitely milking the big $$$ SWTOR generates for other projects

Broadsword already has a bad track history themselves... Now that you mention Anthem it's even worse. Anthem was the biggest flop in gaming history.

@@Kira110lol The problem with Anthem is pretty well documented. The management of the game was TERRIBLE. They forced the devs to work on something but refused to tell them what it was until the last year of development, and even then kept changing expectations. No dev team could have made that game a success.

@@SignoftheMagi You have a point. But having three companies with a crappy record work on SWTOR is not going to raise my morale just because some devs had an excuse. We don't know WHO from Anthem will come. It might not be just devs. This is all speculation, nothing official. For all we know it might also be the people who took bad decisions for Anthem. (That ontop of Broadsword and EA which speaks volumes for itself)

​@@Kira110lolDoesn't even matter because this is swtor, not anthem. They're not making a new game, they're building atop one. They have different priorities plans too.

Why don’t you play anymore

@@whaterverman479 Time and opportunity cost mostly. I have a kid now and constant disruptions and MMOs don't work well together. Plus lots of other games out there on my to-play list. I'll always love SWTOR though and will probably pop in to do a story run-through when I get the star wars itch.

cheers! yeah some big news to come back to.

Agree with you on that. It was one of the more moronic decisions a game company made, and I refuse to touch anything related to NCSoft every again.

Ncsoft is scum pretty much. Every product they release is greed ridden mediocrity. The free to play mobile market that rains money has destroyed the integrity of modern gaming . Nothing is made out of passion or for the consumers. Only goal is to make it rain cash.

It's been here for nearly the entire lifespan of the game, this just makes it official

No where did anyone announce Maintenance mode. Just fools on the forums jumping to conclusions with next to zero information. You've got people saying the games Broadsword does now are in maintenance mode with no dev at all which isn't even true. People need to relax, continue to play the game like normal and wait to see what happens. This could all end up being a really good thing for the game. Also, no one moves dozens of devs to continue development of a game going into maintenance mode.

@@Kalbuir66 You're delusional if you think this isn't exactly what this is. Broadsword manages two games, Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot, both 20+ year old MMOs and both not developed by this studio. Its basically a retirement home for MMOs.

@@matthewmammothswine4395 You realize you're comparing apples to oranges right? You realize that SWTOR still makes money right??? You realize that UO still has events right?????? You might need to look up the definition of Maintenance mode and then stop spreading doom and gloom before you even actually know what's going on.

​@@Kalbuir66 I'm not sure if Broadsword will squeeze more content out of half of the SWTOR dev team.

⁠No , the same team of devs is moving to Broadsword to continue content . Other games that are “just maintained” end up like that because they either aren’t generating good money or there is no story ideas left , neither is true for SWTOR , in fact SWTOR brings in more cash than almost every other mmo…. Don’t listen to the toxic dipshits who complain about everything and think every little change means the end . SWTOR is an amazing game all around . Period .

I'd love to see Star Wars Galaxies return tbh

This is the question. Do the consumers gamble their money hoping for it to be reinvested. The last few years have proven that to not be the case.

@@soulward6334 And EA is still going to be the boss right? So all the investment from players should go to "them". Because if it goes to Sword at its current rate, they should have enough money to do expansions etc etc. But yea cant believe that the malgus story is still not dead after 10 years. And we might never see it be completed ever.

its going into maintenance mode. All thats going to happen is no new content, only ways to milk the last few plays of as much money as possible.

​@@matthewmammothswine4395I think this is contradictory to what was just said in this video

@@matthewmammothswine4395​​⁠No , the same team of devs is moving to Broadsword to continue content . Other games that are “just maintained” end up like that because they either aren’t generating good money or there is no story ideas left , neither is true for SWTOR , in fact SWTOR brings in more cash than almost every other mmo…. Don’t listen to the toxic dipshits who complain about everything and think every little change means the end . SWTOR is an amazing game all around . Period . …

@@whaterverman479 bro put down the drugs. I promise you I have wayyy more hours than you in swtor. My main alone has over 10k hours played. This game is as good as dead.

@@matthewmammothswine4395 Swtor has been in maintenance mode for years, Broadsword is taking it to milking mode now.

Here but I don't devote a lot of time to corrections sorry discord.gg/z8EZxtGwRb

Some from bioware are going to broadsword, we are likely to end up with a much larger development team with broadsword. So I wouldn't consider it a budget cut, EA is just consolidating bioware. The current bioware team on the game is like a couple dozen people. It is not the same bioware that made swtor, or the knights expansions. Pretty much everything good from Bioware that you know no longer applied to swtor, it's been that way for awhile. Broadsword isn't completely unknown tho, and in fact we are probably more likely to get engine and graphics updates than with the current tiny team we have now.

@@asclepius.dionysus Interesting. Thanks for the reply

Nope, "those days" are over. All those writers and devs are gone. Unless square Enix takes over, bit many game studios showing they can write story and dialogue worth Jack shit.

If at least the would change the monetazation model I'd be willing to come back to the game but that won't happen I'm afraid.