Blaine Christine Talks Endgame, Classes, and More
MMO Blog Massively asked some questions of BioWare’s Blaine Christine on the topics of endgame, crafting, classes, and more. While as usual there wasn’t anything new really revealed, it did give some hints as to when we might be seeing updates for certain things or at least what they are working on right now.
What can players expect from the endgame?
Blaine Christine: Let me preface it by saying that we know endgame content is very important for folks, so it is something we are definitely going to focus on. We have not released a lot of details yet, but what we have said is that we will indeed have raids. We haven’t announced specifics around what will definitely be endgame content. Additionally, we have mentioned our player vs. player Warzones. We will have multiple Warzones. Those will mostly be higher-level content, where players participate in larger player vs. player battles, where they experience epic Star Wars ground combat on kind of a grand scale. Then beyond that, we expect — because it’s a BioWare game with BioWare storytelling and multiple branches through the stories — part of our endgame is players playing through classes that they haven’t played or replaying through certain classes to see how certain companion characters or certain branches can affect the outcome of that particular storyline. Additionally, we will have the auction house, crafting and harvesting, guild play, and all the things people are expecting out of an MMO.
I know you have said much about crafting, but what can you tell me at this point?
Blaine Christine: We haven’t announced details, yet. What I can say is we are hammering out the details of that design right now, and it is going to be different from what people expect. And from what we’ve tested internally right now, it’s very cool, very exciting. I think it’s a different take on crafting than what people will be expecting. It’s not the standard implementation. It’s going to be a treat.
Read the entire interview at Massively.
BioWare Talks The Old Republic Endgame
Gaming website IncGamers recently spoke to BioWare’s James Ohlen on the topic of endgame content in Star Wars: The Old Republic and how that will intertwine with the individual class stories.
“Obviously the endgame of our game is very important and something we’ve put a lot of thought into, but at the end of the day, there’s a lot of different ways to do endgames,” Ohlen said.
Perhaps the most interesting quote is this: “You’re going to have a really epic, awesome ending when you finish your class story arc in this game, but that doesn’t mean that your character can’t continue.”
It sounds like endgame content we traditionally expect in MMOs such as raids and different forms of PvP will be present, and separate from how your individual class story will end. This is all speculation though, so make sure to share your own theories for how endgame content in TOR will work in the comments.
BioWare On The Old Republic’s Endgame [IncGamers]
