SWTOR Daniel Erickson Interview

In an interview with RockPaperShotgun.com Daniel Erickson speaks about recent increase in player activity following update 1.2 and the Rakghoul Outbreak world event. We also learn that following the next update focusing on must-have quality of life features, we will see allot new PvE and PvP content. Here are some of the more interesting quotes from the interview

“Although the Internet loves to pronounce the doom of all things, what we’re seeing is a huge increase in activity with [update] 1.2 as people return to see all of the new content,” said Erickson. “The community has generally been excited about the direction the game is going as we finish up our last must-have quality of life features (group finder, etc) and can start concentrating full-time on creative things like the world events.”

“There were two big lessons coming out of not just launch but beta testing that impacted development direction,” noted Erickson. “The first was that although we had not originally planned the game to be heavily PVP-focused, the ease of getting in and playing the Warzones combined with their fun design gave us the highest PvP participation of any modern triple-A MMO. At that point we turned a huge amount of our resources to PVP development, but we’re still playing a bit of catch-up, and that is understandably frustrating to our most advanced PVP users.”

Source: RockPaperShotgun.com