... and I'd totally forgotten until other people reminded me on social media. I feel bad because I usually have this post prepared quite some time in advance, but the Christmas period is often stressful for me and this year has certainly been... something. Anyway, it's not too late to celebrate!
But first, the usual collage of my main character with a new image added for 2024!
2024 was the developers' first full year under Broadsword instead of Bioware, and as I already noted in June when it had been twelve months since the original announcement, not much actually changed from a player's perspective. Contrary to some people's expectations, the game did not go into maintenance mode. (Seriously, the way I see people throw that word around on social media - also when talking about other games - just makes me roll my eyes at this point. I feel like it's becoming the new "[game] is dead" in terms of how utterly meaningless the phrase is becoming.)
As it stands, Star Wars: The Old Republic continued the last couple of years' trend of releasing two major patches per year, with smaller patches which are mostly tied to seasons added in-between. Major highlights from the past year included the new world event added in spring, a meaty story update that came with a new planetary map added to Hutta, the venture system giving us a new companion with a story to earn in game, Twitch drops becoming a thing (again), the addition of the Mac launcher (which is now in open beta!), and with the most recent patch a new operations boss and a new public event system. Aside from that we had more seasons (one of which included a new stronghold), date nights, plus all kinds of new art modernisations, not to mention my favourite bug fix ever: the return of non-combat pets. Not too shabby when you add it all up like that, eh?
Here are my birthday posts from years past if you want to make comparisons to what I thought of years gone by at the time:
Happy Birthday, SWTOR!
Happy 2nd Birthday, SWTOR!
Happy Third Birthday, SWTOR!
Happy 4th Birthday, SWTOR!
Five Years of SWTOR
Six Years of SWTOR
Seven Years of SWTOR
Eight Years of SWTOR
Nine Years of SWTOR
Happy 10th Birthday, SWTOR!
Eleven Years of SWTOR
SWTOR Turns Twelve Today
To many more! I'm looking forward to seeing the story content that was meant to come with 7.6 and had to be postponed, as well as seeing what else the devs have in store for us in the new year. I know I wrote a post back in September about when we'll get a new expansion, in which I was not very optimistic about that prospect, but I've actually changed my mind about that a bit since 7.6. I'm not sure 2025 will be the year when it happens, but I'll just say that I've got a hunch that the devs have got something bigger planned again for the future. I can't wait to find out!
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