It’s Official! SWTOR is moving from Bioware to Broadsword!

The news is now official that Star Wars the Old Republic is moving from the studio called BioWare over to the studio called Broadsword. It will continue to be published by Electronic Arts, aka “EA” and supported by Lucasfilm Games. This move signifies a new chapter in the game’s life, and also potentially allows the game to have a longer life time.

Summary:

- SWTOR is officially changing studios from Bioware to Broadsword.
- It is still being published by EA and supported by Lucasfilm Games.
- A large chunk of the current SWTOR staff have already moved over to Broadsword, including the current:
- Executive Producer ✔️
- Community Manager ✔️
- Lead Writer ✔️
- Narrative Director ✔️
- World Designer ✔️
- Systems Designer ✔️
- Director of Development ✔️
- Monetization Art Director ✔️
- Systems Designer ✔️
- Lead Game Producer ✔️
- The developers plan to continue adding content to the game, it is not going into maintenance mode with the move.
- Upcoming updates to the game:
- 7.3.1, Galactic Season 5 in the coming months
- Old Wounds story continuing in 7.4 on its heels as we enter the holidays
- Migrating servers over to the cloud
- Continuing with evaluation regarding an APAC server
- Improved integrations with Steam
- Updating to DirectX 12
- GTN Revamp?
- Your account, login, billing, Cartel Coins, characters, customer support, SWTOR forums and website, etc will still stay the same.

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[patrickstar]

What gives me hope is the fact that many of the team members confirmed to be going to broadsword are writing staff. You don't need writers if you plan on just maintaining a games servers.

[MotherOfSorrows]

Over the years, this game became a comfort space for me. 11 years of gaming... Man, time flies when you're having fun

[Arauto_Kagnos]

Damn I didn't knew the lead writer and narrative director were moving over, this gives me a lot of hope for the story to be continued which was my main concern!

[GreenFalcon]

I'm not worried. They wouldn't be making all these big changes, such as bit64, Cloud Servers and DX12 if they weren't happy with how things are. The game is still very much active. I hope this does expand the playerbase further, and give is more updates and content. Been playing this game for 10 years and have countless fond memories with it.

[walkergargagliano]

Heres hoping SWTOR continues to get major story content!

[DMBLaan]

I want to be optimistic about this change, but I've been burn by these kinds of changes before. For now, I'll wait and see.

[jaysgamingcorner]

Hope this amazing game is around for years to come. It's so underrated, underappreciated. This could be great news for SWTOR, guess we'll all see in the months to come.

[SLOWVERBRADIO]

Probably the best move for SWTOR. Keeping a dedicated & attentive group working on the game with a new writing team sets everyone up for faster content without it being at the cost of quality. Itll be interesting to see what Broadsword does in terms of bringing in new players with this new phase of the game. All I hope is that they make a single player or shorter squad story version of all the Operations for the sake of playing the whole story in order.

[markoberg]

I've been playing since before launch, I hope they keep the lights on and make quality content. I'd love to be playing this game in 20 years with it still going strong.

[YukiPyro]

As someone who's been away from swtor for a few years, Once I heard this news and watching this video. Confirms that I have to return. As you stated, this may help swtor and give it a new life. Swtor has one of the best storytelling of any games I have played. Will be keeping tabs to watch this movement in full.

Thanks for updating on this situation and bringing good news.

[Gamer]

It's very rare that studio change ends up for the better; most of the time it's bad news.

[SanityPotion]

I've just recently returned to the game and I'm really happy to hear all this good news! I've also seen many tweets from many of the devs moving over being very optimistic about the future :D!

[brian-usvw]

Swtorista, You always have been a great condensed source of info. Thank you

[brianvickery]

Thanks for the amazing SWTOR content. Been playing SWTOR off and on since release. When I am curious where the game is and how it is going, you're the only one I check. Keep up the great work!

[TheSentientsix]

This game and devs should a take a few notes from Old school Runescape. The devs and community are very open with each other within that mmo(for reasons I won't go into) and I think swtor taking a similar approach could really help the game succeed. Run some polls and see what content the player base would like to be added to the game and most importantly, poll some quality of life updates, like the UI, pvp, etc. I only play swtor occasionally. I played through one storyline in full and I plan on eventually playing all of them. Hopefully the game last for years to come. This game would really benefit if it had a good community manager.

[DarthShadie]

I'm glad to hear Kieth is moving over and everyone's plans for the game.

[shadowofchaos]

This game practically forged myself as a person during my teen years. it always will have a soft spot for me. Here is to another 12 years!!

[shionrasenka]

It's great to know that the majority of the team is moving to Broadsword and keeping the game active and alive!! Thanks for keeping us informed, Swtorista!!! Also, congrats on the move!! Take the time you need to get adjusted into your new digs!!

[zen]

I'm optimistic! Thanks for the great update!

[alaskamark]

Thanks for the update Swtorista! Glad to officially hear they're not going into maintenance mode, I'm fairly new to the game and it'd be a shame if it started dying off before I can fully experience it. Here's hoping they release more full expansions in the future!