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Hints Dropped About Level Cap

Posted by Jeff Moeller

Recently there has been talk about what the level cap will be in The Old Republic and how relative the characters we’ve seen in the developer walkthrough are to that cap. Well both Sean Dahlberg and Daniel Erickson have given us something to discuss on the matter. On the SWTOR official forums, Sean Dahlberg had this to say:

Well, I actually said they were higher, not necessarily “high” level. One of the things to remember is that the early stages of most any game (single-player or MMO) are there to educate the user as to how to play the game. Once you get the basics down, you get more things thrown your way to learn.
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Yes, there is a bigger difference between characters that are Level 3 and 8 than you will see at the “high” levels. That’s because the first few levels are there more to teach you general game mechanics and then we start showing you how “your” character plays. (source)

In addition to that, Daniel Erickson talked about the game in an interview with G4 at GamesCom.

“We have this very long story arc that we can bring things back to. You may have completely forgotten that when you were at level eight, that you killed this guy you didn’t need to kill. His family hasn’t forgotten it and they’re going to find you 20 hours later and hunt you down, and you’re going to have to deal with the ramifications. One of the really fun things there is that you may be a completely different person at that point. You might have decided to give up your crazy ways from when you were a kid. And now at level 40, you’re a pretty good and these guys come to you. You have to decide, ‘Okay, am I going to cover that up? How am I going to handle it?’ These are the things that really make the galaxy feel alive.”

So now we know the game will have at least 40 levels. What the max level will be is up to speculation for now.

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