Star Wars: The Old Republic has a free minipet and companion for you

Free expansions, free mounts, and free character slots. Star Wars: The Old Republic has been buttering its players up lately, and that trend is not going to stop any time soon. The sci-fi MMORPG is getting ready to hand out free minipets and companions during the month of November as part of a promotion for its United Forces server merge.

First up with this giveaway is a Mini Mogul NM-1 battle walker pet, which is earned simply by logging in between November 8th and the 27th. A little more difficult to obtain is the wicked-looking Darth Hexid companion, which requires players to run at least three missions through the group finder (either PvP or PvE) during the same time period. (Speaking of companions, MOP’s Larry discussed some possible changes that could impact your virtual buddies.)

SWTOR’s United Force update is scheduled for November 8th and will merge the current 17 servers down to just five (one for each region and language). A double XP and CXP event is also planned for November 8th through the 14th.