Let’s rip off this band-aid quickly: There will be no
SWTOR Update 5.2 today.
BioWare announced on the forums
that it is delaying the patch, which contains the MMO’s first new raid in two years, to next week. In the meantime,
SWTOR will be extending its XP/CXP event through the 18th as compensation.
The studio said that the delay was due to a quality issue with the update: “At this point in time, we are not satisfied with the quality of the Iokath update. For that reason, we are delaying the release of 5.2 by one week, to release on April 18th. This allows the team more time to make improvements to address some of the issues still pending.”
And as one Old Republic game sees a delay, another might be forthcoming. Scuttlebutt this week is that BioWare Edmonton is working on a Knights of the Old Republic game. The rumor’s source said that it is unclear whether this is a remake of the original, a revival of the franchise, or something else entirely, but that BioWare is currently working on Star Wars games exclusively.
The new Star Wars game appears to be different from another co-op game with a new IP discussed as part of the same leak, which one of the sources “described […] as a ‘semi-MMO’,” according to the journalist who broke the story, Liam Robertson. Expect more details at E3.
Update:
The KOTOR 3 rumor has been partially retracted by the journalist who broke it. He told Kotaku that he likely misheard and didn’t expect to be quoted on the front page of damn near everything. “Let me clarify that I don’t think KOTOR’s a current project. From the same people I learned about Dylan from, I did hear that they prototyped a KOTOR revival at Austin a while back. I believe it may have evolved into something else since then or fizzled out since then. I’m still confident Austin is doing something Star Wars related though and I’m confident in that. I actually did know that they were contributing towards Dylan since I originally found out about it when I was researching Austin’s Shadow Realms, so if I said exclusively, then that was admittedly a mistake.”
