SWTOR Celebrates Its Five-Year Anniversary Today

Jason Winter
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Star Trek might have made the phrase "five-year mission" famous, but today it's Star Wars: The Old Republic that celebrates its half-decade birthday. The game officially launched on Dec. 20, 2011 -- that's five days after Star Wars: Galaxies shut down, if you're keeping track -- ushering in a new golden age of AAA subscription-based MMOs that's still going strong today.

OK, maybe things didn't happen quite that way. Still, even with all its changes, SWTOR is quite popular with a lot of people today. Producer Ben Irving commemorated the occasion with a blog post thanking fans for their patronage while echoing many of the game's biggest storylines.

If hooplah alone isn't enough to excite you, there are plenty of rewards to share in the game today, including a Senya holostatue, discounted strongholds on Coruscant and Dromund Kaas, seven-piece poster art collection, Galactic Alliance statue, and "celebration Jawa."

You can also check out the Character Portrait Collage, an image of the game's initial box art made up of screenshots submitted by players over the past several years. The website also boasts that more than 87 million characters have been created since SWTOR's 2011 launch. Now that would require one heckuva LFG tool.

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Jason Winter
Jason Winter, News Editor
Jason Winter is a veteran gaming journalist, he brings a wide range of experience to MMOBomb, including two years with Beckett Media where he served as the editor of the leading gaming magazine Massive Online Gamer. He has also written professionally for several gaming websites.

Discussion (2)

Avari 6 years ago
What an awesome way to explain this-now I know evtiheyrng!

Coldfire280 6 years ago
it's nice to see this game is still going but I just can't play it anymore ... without a sub it's not fun to play and even with a sub it feels like a waste at this point.


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