George Smith - Raid Designer Leaves SWTOR

Guy working on team not actively developing content that is his speciality is re-assigned to team that needs him.

FIlm at 11.

And your basis on this 1-2 people is what exactly? A hunch? You have any involvement in any sort of development what so ever let alone a title of this calibre?

I used to hate those SWG NGE references to this game but I am actually starting to buy into the design choices being taken on by BW lately are leading down a similar path.
If anything NGE proves designers/management can make retarded decisions that take a successful product down the garden path to be put down so it's not becoming that much of a stretch to see the same thing occurring with SWToR.

Who knows though ... maybe something else will come along to justify long term subscribing again but right now preferred status is more than adequate.

Yeah, just like 8 years ago when some of WoW leads left to WoW to work on other Projects and WoW closed down.

Oh wait....

For all anyone knows, this is a sign new Flashpoints/Operations are going to be worked on. A fresh face to give it a fresh impetus. Way to assume the worst.

Pretty much I guess they have to share Bob the intern who leads the PvP team

Actually I have great new guys.

I've got an email from Bioware today saying I am the lucky winner of the "Create our future operations" secret draw they must have conducted.

As such I will be designing, developing, and coding all future operations.

Now I have no idea how to code this sort of thing nor do I have much time to spend on this but apparently the half an hour a day I can spare will be more than sufficient for the $90K per annum salary they are going to give me.

I promise I'll do my best though folks and not let you down! Just keep paying your subs because it will be worth it in the long term but only if you keep paying your subs in the mean time!

They also offered me a position as community manager but the 5 posts a week and over the top faked enthusiasm during live streams was a bit much for me to squeeze in so I had to turn down the salary of free lifetime subscriber to take on this role and thus Eric will be retaining it.

I'm happy to take idea's on new idea's for operations ... at this stage I am working on a working title of "Revan and Kephess return! .... Again!" and their might even be a secret appearance by the emperor because well ... can't get enough of him either.

I like your optimism

Personaly, I prefer to think that, given the almost a year old news that Mass Effect Andromeda was basically finished and the fact that why would a Mass Effect team require his specific ops and flashpoints designing skills, BW seems to be working on a new mmo, most likely mass effect mmo. So many signs (starting from the 2018 expertise "easter egg") and opinions show that swtor has about 2 years left of active online. Well, signs and opinions are all we have, BW surely can't afford to announce the year 2018 as the last swtor year, would be very bad for business. Swtor 2, probably...but this news allows to think that it's more probably mass effect mmo.

They have this amazing sci-fi mass effect universe, they're not bound by any licence or lore restrictions, the possibility of it was mentioned by BW representatives officially in interviews (and each time they said it's a great idea with tons of potential, never anything like "wouldn't work, mass effect is single player experience only etc...). Well, I'd be glad to see all the experience and lessons learned from swtor implemented in mass effect mmo

Sorry but have to be pessimistic when they have gone back on their word with regards to the rate of release of new ops (remember the df/dp to tos rav 14 month interval was supposed to be an anomaly?) and with the recent nightmare debacles I would say its you living in a fools paradise. I hope I'm being a negative Nancy and I'm proved wrong, but I seriously doubt it.

This is how MMO companies kill off a game.

Because of the way you highlight your comments and support this game i thought you were an EA employee but now i realize you are just a fanboy, boy pretty much because of the naivity, do you really think only 1 person creates operations? even worst do you think the guy who quit who was involved on all the past operations wasn't that good? really? sigh..... lets call mickey mouse to fill the vacant...