Well, our impromptu too vacation is over and rime to get back to reality. Where did we go you ask? To a universe far, far, away. We both have resubscribed to Star Wars: The Old Republic and are loving it. It is such a different experience than March when we last played mainly because my computer isn’t overheating anymore. A couple of rig improvements and now my machine no longer contemplates torching itself when I fire up SWTOR.
Admittedly, part of the reason we’ve been MIA for the last ten days is that we’ve rerolled characters on a new server. When we came back to the game our server was empty, not nearly as bad as some server stories I’ve heard since being back, but still the economy was non-existent and fleet never had more than 25 people at peak. After a quick web search I found an excellent site for server stats in SWTOR and we reolled on Jedi Covenant on the Republic side. Starting planets routinely have over 75 people per planet and we’ve seen well over 100 people on Coruscant. The atmosphere is generally positive and players are excited about the game.
In other gaming news around the web before E3 next week:
- Star Wars 1313 details leaked ahead of E3, more details to follow at the convention
- The Secret World made several announcements:
- Launch delayed until July 3
- Third Beta Weekend entitled “Hell Raised” is June 15-17
- Fourth Beta Weekend is June 22-24 and players will get to experience PvP
- Early Access begins June 29th
- A new pre-launch Alternate Reality Game has been launched
- Rift announced its first expansion, Storm Legion, set to hit a retailer near you this fall
- The Elder Scrolls Online team has been talking and are unapologetic for bringing the series to the MMO format or for how they’ve structured the game
- 38 Studios closed its doors, laid off the entire staff, and then revealed how close the MMO based in the Kingdoms of Amalur setting was to completion
- South Korea raided the local offices of Blizzard during an ongoing investigation of customer complaints concerning the inability of Korean customers to return Diablo III
- Guild Wars 2 next beta weekend was announced June 8 – June 10
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