Yesterday Afternoon, Stephen Reid did a Reddit “Ask Me Anything“.. Lots and lots of good stuff in there.. not going to copy/paste the whole thing, but here’s a few tidbits:
Stephen’s “ground rules/introduction to the AMA”
Hey Reddit people, ask me some questions! I’m the Senior Community Manager for Star Wars: The Old Republic, based at BioWare in Austin. I manage the entire Community team, working on everything from Forums to social media, fansites to guild outreach, events to website content.
A few caveats:
- I’m not in charge of any design decisions on the game – if you are looking to get something changed, ask nicely on the official Forums :)
- I’m not aware of every single bug in the game, or the status of their resolution – although I am happy to hear about them
- I am British and likely to use dry humor (but note: I spell things American now)
- I am going into a meeting titled ” “THE AWESOME ATTACK OF RAINBOWS AND NARWHALS AND BACON THAT WE’RE GOING TO HIT THE BLOG WITH” right now, so I’ll be 30 minutes or more late before I start answering stuff…
That said… go for it.
6:33PM CST: That’s it for me folks, I’m out. Tried to answer as many things as I can. If I didn’t answer a question likelihood is because it was too specific to current developer thinking or future potential thinking – apologies for that.
I may ninja in the odd reply going forward, and if you enjoyed this (despite me…) then let us know and perhaps we’ll do similar with other development team members. :)
10:23PM CST: Alright I’m really done this time. We will do this again in some form, possibly with other BioWare folk, I promise! :)
This one talks about the character creation options coming ‘soon’ for those with Legacy unlocked:
Q: Will it be possible to give us more information on exactly what we can get out of the legacy system?
Without revealing more details I do want to point out one thing: don’t assume that there’s another, ‘secret’ character creation system that we’re going to allow for those who have unlocked their Legacy.
The Legacy System will allow you to have more options at character creation, but it’s not like “Oh, you unlocked your Legacy? You now have 50 more beard types available to you!”
About units sold:
Q: How many units have been sold??
More than I could fit in my house. I live in a decent sized house (thanks Austin rental prices!).
Ship Customization:
Q: Any plan to implement some kind of in-ship customizations?
Ship customization is definitely something that’s wanted at some point. :)
There is lots of good info, even in the ‘short questions/short answers’ recap that I pulled these from.. head over and read the whole thing..