The TORO list of SWTOR interviews & features

[TalN]

I figured that it would be a real benefit to our community if we had a sticky which links to every known SWTOR interview or feature which doesn't appear on the official website. If you come across an article which is not listed please post in this topic and I will add it to the list.

Please do NOT list articles which are not an interview or a feature article. NO screenshots, NO blogs, NO gossip or opinion editorials. Thank you.

Various Sources
IncGamers interview with James Ohlen (Lead Designer) Part 1 - 26 Nov 2008
IncGamers interview with James Ohlen (Lead Designer) Part 2 - 26 Nov 2008

Zam.com interview with Sean Dahlberg - unknown date

Greg Zeschuk's (CEO) comment on payment methods for TOR - April 20th, 2009

Interview with Simutronics Vice President, makers of HeroEngine - December 12, 2008

PC Zone preview of TOR with comments from the developers - 3-Nov-2008
Part 2 of the PC Zone preview - 8-Nov-2008

INCGamer notes German SWTOR site overheard about player housing - 27 Aug 2009

News snippet about forthcoming Total PC Game 6-page feature - (Troopers get airstrikes, devs are fully aware of concerns of non-force user vs force-user issue) - Thursday 12 November 2009

Excellent fan-made GDC interview with Sean Dhalburg - (pazzak indirectly confirmed, scale of game worlds is vast, choices will be transparently good/bad/neutral, HK47 once again indirectly confirmed, please note Sean has a horrible poker face lol, no side switching AT ALL) - 21 September 2009

IGN Q&A session following E3 - (confirms skill trees, healing abilites for several classes, large scale worlds again confirmed) - July 24, 2009

IncGamer Preview on upcoming interview where Bioware talks about TOR endgame - 18.11.09

Videogamer.com : Your Questions Answered - (confirms that 'game testing' is 'beta testing') - 17.11.09

Link to translated PCG German Magazine interview - (prestidge classes: two per starter class, companions can always follow you around, you cannot choose what skills they learn as they level up, non-force users have 'traps' to level the playing field against force-users) - 23.11.09

PCGames Germany article: scanned pages and translation - 23.11.09

(1)(2)(3)(4)(5) Scanned images of PC Total Format's feature on TOR - (lots of details on the specifics of class roles) 28.11.09

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MMO gamer
MMO Gamer interviews Blaine Christine - (full crafting from raw materials to final product, NOT a massively single player game, harvesting not crafting from loot drops) - October 18, 2009

DarthHater.com
Darth gets a hands-on demo of the Agent in action - (Stealth, assassin 'shiv' abilities, lots of Agent info) - 2009 11.14
Interview with devs about Agent - 2009 11.13
SWTOR novel releasing in July 2010 "around the game release time" - (game release expected to be Late Spring or Summer 2010) - 2009 11.03



TenTonHammer.com
SWTOR Art Interview - Tweaking the Lightsabers - October 27th, 2008
SWTOR HeroEngine Interview - Instant World Creation - December 15th, 2008
Developer Weighs in on Beta Testing - April 20th, 2009
GamesCom 2009 Star Wars: The Old Republic Interview - Lead Writer (storyline having real consquences, dark/light allignment NOT going to inhibit a player, level cap is more than 40) - August 26, 2009

Gamespot.com
Video interview with the "Bioware Brothers" - Oct 21, 2008
Gamespot SWTOR announcement interview - Oct 21, 2008
Gamespot interviews Daniel Erickson regarding the Republic Trooper - May 8, 2009
Trooper revealed - May 8, 2009
Gamespot plays the Agent demo - (Smuggler is a jack-of-all trades class with basic medic skils, stealth is silent movement - not invisibility, stealth is not class restricted, Agent is a glass-canon class - high on burst damage, low on defense) - 14/11/09

EuroGamer.com
EuroGamer talks to Bioware staff at Announcement press conference - 23 October, 2008
Blizzard's executive Paul Sams predicts TOR to be as successful as WOW - 12 November, 2008
Gamespot E3 2009 interview for Smuggler - 01/06/09
Gamespot goes into detail about Jedi Knight class - (RPG Trinity with hybrid classes confirmed, Jedi Knights are tanks with team support powers)

EU Cantina
A huge checklist of quotes and information (note, contains some speculation)

Gamasutra
Interview with Daniel Erickson about story-writing in the TOR universe

EDGE Online
Inside the Old Republic - Dec 4th 2008

MMORPG.com
MMORPG.com speak with Alexander Freed and Dallas Dickinson - (classes have a 'correct' combat range with skills to put enemies there) - July 27, 2009
Impressions of the Imperial Agent - (all classes will be revealed by December 3rd!) - 20.11.09


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E3 '09 Section

IGN
Gamespot
G4
1UP
Destructoid
TenTonHammer
Kotaku
SiFiWire
StarWarsMMO
Gamespot Smuggler Article
Arstechnica
StarWarsMMO Demo Review
GameSutra
ZAM
TenTonHammer Dev Video Good Video
Giant Bomb Video Interview with Dev.
ScreenShots of Smuggler Outfits from TTH Vid
The Gophn Interview
MMOGAMER
Joystiq
MMOGamer - Best one yet!

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PAX 2009 interviews
SWTORCore.com forum post interview - 09-10-2009
TentonHammer at PAX 2009 - (Alignment will effect the 'power' of an ability, allignment will also effect what powers/abilities you can earn)
Massively.com Interviews Jake and Blaine - (playable alien races use native tongue with subtitles like Jury does)
MMORPG.com Report from PAX

Exclusive SWTOR Art Interview - Tweaking the Lightsabers - http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/47423

Exclusive SWTOR HeroEngine Interview - Instant World Creation - http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/51387

and one more: Star Wars: The Old Republic Developer Weighs in on Beta Testing - http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/67009

I don't know how to link text in this forum lol

[TalN]

Like this:

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Ah okay I'll remember that, thanks!

[fodigg]

thanks for this Tal.

[Musco]

Stickied... This is great!

Gamespot Q&A on the new Trooper class http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/starwars ... ot;title;2

Gamespot Q&A on the new Trooper class http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/starwars ... ot;title;2

I'm excited about this part:

DE: Right now we're hard at work on our E3 demo, preparing to reveal to the world what TOR really looks like. People are going to be surprised.

[TalN]

Updated topic with some more links. I'll find some more later this weekend on the Trooper stuff. Thank you to everyone who is contributing.

read the E3 demo befor you can see it, here-> http://pc.ign.com/articles/989/989833p1.html

good find

Found this on gametrailers http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-star-wars/50796

Sadly nothing reeeeally new, unless they seems to have a ship date in mind, but they want the game to be godlike before release, I guess...

So yeah, both boo and yay hehe

All these are taken from my Post on the Offical fourms. They are all June 2009.

IGN
Gamespot
G4
1UP
Destructoid
TenTonHammer
Kotaku
SiFiWire
StarWarsMMO
Gamespot Smuggler Article
Arstechnica
StarWarsMMO Demo Review
GameSutra
ZAM
TenTonHammer Dev Video Good Video
Giant Bomb Video Interview with Dev.
ScreenShots of Smuggler Outfits from TTH Vid
The Gophn Interview
MMOGAMER
Joystiq
MMOGamer - Best one yet! NEW

Hope they Help

[TalN]

Thanks I'll be updating this list at some point this week.

This needs updated ASAP!

[TalN]

Sorry but I've not really had the time to update this. Feel free to update this for me.

[TalN]

Going to start updating this today and tomorrow, if you have anything worth adding please post it. I'm also going to catagorise the links with info of any significance for times when someone says 'prove to me when the devs said that'

Ok folks, all done by the looks of it. If you have anything to add feel free to post it.

[SammMoney]

Tal-N better get on the ball.

[TalN]

It's ok, I can see where the ball is and I'm very slowly climbing over an obstacle course to get to it.

thanks a lot! im so excited for this game.

New interviews posted in swtor-station.com

http://swtor-station.com/index.php

First Article All of the points seem new. Some of them are:

Your Companion can add to your ships [upgrades anyone?]
Party members can participate in your space missions. [turret minigames?or just tease the owner form the inside... "OH! i got ship sickness with all the rolling... Stop it already!"]
Crafting for the ships [no further details. i expect ship construction of some kind]
Lightsaber coloring will be free. all color from the movies are a choise. Jedi with red and sith with purple. [no double rainbow thought]