A long time ago, in a third-party studio far, far away...
contains the somewhat unsurprising news that, almost 12 years on from launch, EA is moving the ongoing support of Star Wars: The Old Republic from an in-house BioWare team to the third-party studio Broadsword Online Games. Broadsword may not be a household name, but one can think of it as the retirement home for golden age MMOs: It also runs Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot.
So it seems like a done deal. One of the most eyebrow raising elements of this story is just how many people are still working on The Old Republic, with the core development team estimated at 70-80 people, of which roughly half are expected to transition to Broadsword along with the game. There's no news yet on whether the remainder face redundancy or will be shuffled elsewhere within BioWare and/or EA.
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