Although the developers were extremely
busy in December and didn’t get to interact
with the community as much as usual, there was a lot
of new information revealed. The biggest announcement
was the official U.S. release date of April 15th.
We are still working with our international partners
on a release date for countries outside of the United
States. Expect that announcement in the next couple
of months.
We gave out some solid and much requested
information of skill trees, Player Associations, and
Faction perks. We ended the year by releasing four
wallpapers based on the January PC Gamer covers.
Behind the scenes we are pretty much
feature complete. This means for the next few months
we will be adding some more content but mainly will
be working on bug fixes, game balancing and general
polish. We hope to announce the complete feature set
for release as well as our priorities for updates
either this month or early next. Over the past two
years our website has given fans an intimate look
at our design intentions. Not every item will make
it for initial release, but the vast majority of them
will. Any that do not make release will be put into
our update center. Although the game will evolve and
get better as time goes on, we have every intention
and are on track to release a fun, stable and feature
rich product that hopefully will cater to people’s
desire to live in the Star Wars universe.
Finally, during January expect to see
an announcement about when Beta 3 will start. We’re
still evaluating that date, but should know relatively
soon.
~Kevin “Q-3PO” O’Hara
Community Relations Manager
