SWTOR Deserves A Revival: More Funding, Resources and Manpower

Very nice. I didn't expect that at all. I really thought your petition had plateaued.
Good job Yil.

I just signed. And tweeted it, although given I have something like seven followers, that part probably isn't going to accomplish much. (My sister being one of them and who used to play as f2p, but between stuff like her computer kicking it and having more important things to spend her money on like school loans, bills, etc, she hasn't played in at least a couple of years. So she might sign. Dunno about anyone else.)

Wow already 3210, that went fast now.

There were definitely good elements in that continuity. You'll always find me praising the Dark Empire comics, the Thrawn trilogy and the Hand of Thrawn duology. But for example the entire Yuuzhan Vong war and arc? I absolutely hated it and I am happy it's no longer part of the canon.

I guess it comes down to personal preferences, but the current continuity after Return of the Jedi feels like it's less chaotic and all over the place. It feels more streamlined. Although I will admit that -had it been up to me - everything from TFA forward would have been different. I'd have preferred if they made a movie adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy or went about the sequel trilogy more creatively. Still, in all honesty, I do enjoy TFA and TLJ a lot more than I did the Yuuzhan Vong arc :P

Nice work, keep it up!
My belief is that Bioware would be more than happy to devote more resources to the game if given the chance, so its EA than you need to convince. EA is a cautious company that really only cares about maximizing return for its investors, and we've seen them back-pedal on things (ie: the whole loot-crate thing in Battlefront) when public opinion is against them.

I've seen a few threads and comments around here re: Anthem and how its sucking up money that could be spent on this game. People are going to "take a stand" and boycott it, which I think is a completely backwards way of thinking about it. The money has already been spent - if Anthem does badly, EA might just close Austin down, which would absolutely be the end of swtor.

EA doesn't care about individual gamers. It does care about gamers as an aggregate, or rather our aggregated wallets.

If Anthem fails EA may close down BioWare but if it succeeds, future resource investment will go towards Anthem and more generic mass market loot box cash grabs like it and not towards SWtOR or any other single player RPG.

Or maybe a successful Anthem will mean BWA gets to continue existing, and swtor gets more attention. That's the outcome I'm choosing to hope for