Sean Dahlberg,
Star Wars: The Old Republic™ Community Manager, informs the community that tomorrow's update will be a late one:
Just wanted to let everyone know that tomorrow's update will be running late tomorrow. How late? Hard to say at this point but I should have some more info early tomorrow (that is, early my time). I'll update this thread (and the first post) with such information.
That all said, instead of camping the F5 key, I'd suggest following us on the social networks we are a part of since we post the updates there as soon as everything is ready.
UPDATE [11:20AM CDT]: Nothing really new to tell at this time; we do not have an eta on when today's update will be posted. We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
FINAL UPDATE [6:05PM CDT]: Just to let everyone know, we will be putting up the latest issue of the Blood of the Empire within the hour. We thank you for your patience and understanding and definitely check back in next week.
More from the DevTracker after the jump.
Sean Dahlberg responding to the community on the amount of Developers admiting they will be playing Sith:
We have a fair sized studio here at BioWare Austin and between us and LucasArts, there is a wide variety of people who play the various classes in The Old Republic. Dallas is one individual on the team and a very professional one at that who would not allow his personal opinion to negatively affect the product.
The Republic is definitely well represented within The Old Republic Team. Even while some may see me as a representative of the Sith, I'm a huge fan of the Trooper and Smuggler classes and I even played the Jedi Consular in a variety of the demos (no, not in the G4 demo, though).
The truth of the matter is that each class is actually great for different reasons. The story, the mechanics, the abilities, etc. Each has their own feel and flavor to them. Having played the Jedi Knight and Jedi Consular (I play all the classes but that's not the point of this sentence), it's amazing how different they actually feel when you consider they both start on Tython and are both "Jedi".
Everything said, both sides will be equally represented. For those who played KOTOR, I think they would agree that the light side and dark side paths of the game (to include the endings) were both epic. Quality is a very important thing to us and that is for everything we do in the game: The allegiances, the classes, the mechanics, everything. If we put something in the game, we want it to not only feel like it fits in the game but that it is enjoyable and has a reason to be in the game.
Sean talking about the usual friday update preview:
I would concur with GamewizX. We have not announced what this week's update is and the reason I haven't is because things sometimes change. When I have information for everyone, I'll definitely share it.
