Speaking with The Gamer, Legacy of the Sith creative director Charles Boyd and project director Keith Kanneg both discussed the future of the now decade-old MMORPG epic, hopefully a future loaded with ambitious plans to secure the legacy of Star Wars: The Old Republic.
“This is a foundation year for us,” Kanneg said. “If we want to last another 10 years, we need to refine where we’re going and what our story will be. This is the start for the next 10 years.”
“We’ve laid out with EA the next couple of years — our five-year plans,” Kanneg said. “‘What do we want?’ ‘What do we have?’ ‘Where are we going?’ That type of thing. Really, this is a foundation year for us even though it’s 10 years into our life cycle. We looked into it and said ‘if we want to last another 10 years, we have to do a lot of improvements, a lot of changes. Find where we’re going, where our story is going.’ So, where do we see it? Kind of the start of the next 10 years.”
“That’s exactly how I’d put it, too. We want to build on all this amazing storytelling and the choices the players have made to make their character unique up to this point — and keep that going,” Boyd continued. “How many games get that opportunity to tell that continuous, branching interactive narrative?” Boyd acknowledged that “we have a 10-year-old game,” but said that he wanted to “update some things. Expand options as a player. Carry the game forward into the future.”
