Community Cantina Tour

SWTOR Community cantina Cologne (gamescom 2014) – Drive Pics

German SWTOR Wesbite gamona.de was at the SWTOR Community cantina Cologne and got some sweet screenshots off the  USB drive they give out to people. Looking through the images, it looks like the “Forged alliances” serie will lead us to the next paid expansion with a new planet. Planet below is Rakata Prime btw. Check it out below.. All credits goes to Bioware, watermarks belongs to gamona.de

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The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Germany!

BioWare just announced that the next stop in the Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Friday, August 15th, in Germany! This is the chance for European players to join the SWTOR community for a development team Q&A as well as complimentary drinks*, food, and giveaways. Every attendee will be receiving a highly coveted M8-3R Astromech code. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by! Venue: Radisson Blu Hotel Date: Friday, August 15th, 2014 Time: 7:00-11:00PM CEST Address: Messe Kreisel 3 (access Brügelmannstr. 1) D-50679 Cologne, Germany Space will be limited, so be sure to arrive early! You can RSVP on Facebook here (Facebook RSVP is not required for and does not guarantee admittance).

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SWTOR Vancouver Community Cantina Recap

We love to share info with you about Community Cantinas. First, they are fun and secondly, they are informative McSluethGaming.com has a great of info (with pictures) about the Vancouver Community Cantina. Let’s take a look at some of it now: I arrived about 45 minutes before the event and was the first one there, I was then greeted by Eric Musco who was setting up the front booth, from my limited knowledge of other cantina events I was shocked to find nobody else there, as was Eric who said this was the first time ever that this had happened. Normally there is a crowd almost 2 hours before! At that point I was honestly rather worried that not many people would show up at all… It did however give me a great chance to just chat with Eric for almost a solid hour which was nice. Around 20 mins to 8 a…

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Corellian Run Creates Guide to Community Cantinas

If you have yet to visit a Community Cantina, we highly encourage you to look up the schedule and find out when one is coming near you. They are free to attend and you get a thumb drive with goodies and upcoming content, before it’s released to anyone else. You also get an exclusive Special Event pet-code, and a free drink ticket. There is the opportunity to win exclusive SWTOR loot by correctly answering trivia. It’s all around a good time. Now if you’re going to attend a Community Cantina, you first need to read this great guide from Corellian Run because they will tell you exactly what you need to know before the event so you can get the most out of it. Here is a snippet from the guide: Here are a few tips on asking questions at gaming Q&As! Look up previous Q&As to make sure you…

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Boston Cantina Tour Flashdrive assets

Sorry for the delay on this one, but here are the Boston Cantina Tour Flashdrive assets. There isn’t much new stuff here,if you already seen the contents of the Hotshot pack which is previewable on live servers now. There is some concept art of Selkath NPCs and a Wookie NPC that is interesting though. These guys will apparently play a big role in the further installments of Forged Alliances storyline. Cartel Market Coruscant Bedroom/Coruscant View Nar Shaddaa Interior

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The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Vancouver, British Columbia!

The date for the next Star Wars: The old Republic Community Cantina is up. BioWare will be visiting Vancouver, British Columbia on Friday, May 16th. This is your chance to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic community for a development team Q&A as well as complimentary drinks*, food, and giveaways. Every attendee will be receiving a highly coveted M8-3R Astromech code. Space is limited so be sure to come early. Below is the details: Venue: The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver Date: Friday,May 16th, 2014 Time: 8:00PM – 11:00PM PDT Address:900 West Georgia Street Vancouver British Columbia, Canada V6C 2W6

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Boulder Cantina Tour News and Info

Non of us here at swtorstrategies were at the Boulder event, so the information below is from Lumberj, and all credits goes to him. The tour was just like most others, a Q&A round, followed by trivia to a room full of nerds and then a meet and greet. Who was there? Courtney Woods, some Australian dude who lost a arm wrestling match, Blain and Cory Butler. First off, they said they could not talk about strongholds other than what was originally announced. The exact details of what the legacy storage could hold was still being worked out in response to a ? about placing bound items in them. Guild ship battles is on the Wall of Crazy (WoC) Space PvE — WoC and no current plans Open space Pvp – WoC Class Story – Not at the moment, would rather have story that all classes can experience such as what they’ve…

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Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Boston, Massachusetts on April 11th, 2014

BioWare posted news regarding the Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina. The next event will still be this Saturday, March 22nd, in Boulder. BUt the next after that will be happening on Friday, April 11th, in Boston. This is your chance to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic community for a development team Q&A as well as complimentary drinks*, food, and giveaways. Every attendee will be receiving a highly coveted M8-3R Astromech code. Space is limited so be sure to come early. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by and hang out with the BioWare team. Check out details below: Venue: The Hyatt Regency Boston Date: Friday, April 11th, 2014 Time: 8:00PM – 11:00PM EDT Address: 1 Avenue De Lafayette, Boston, MA 02111 Space will be limited, so be sure to arrive early! You can RSVP on Facebook here (Facebook RSVP is not required for attendance).

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Next Community Cantina takes place in Boulder this month

We kind of overlooked this story, but the next SWTOR Community Cantina Tour stop takes place in Boulder, Colorado later this month. I would imagine that we will get tons of new details regarding the SWTOR player Housing Announcement at this event, but who knows. Below are the details: We’re happy to announce that the next stop in the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Saturday, March 22nd, in Boulder! This is your chance to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic community for a development team Q&A as well as complimentary drinks*, food, and giveaways. Every attendee will be receiving a highly coveted M8-3R Astromech code. Space is limited so be sure to come early. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by and hang out with us! Venue: St. Julien Hotel and Spa Date: Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 Time: 7:00-10:00PM…

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Atlanta Cantina Tour News and Info

mmorpg.com have an article on what went on on last weekends Atlanta Cantina Tour: Last week, BioWare sent Star Wars: the Old Republic’s Community Specialist Courtney Woods, Community Manager Eric Musco, Producer Andrew Horowitz, and Lead Engineer Johan Allanson to Atlanta with swag and drink tickets in hand for the latest Cantina Tour stop. The now-traditional flashdrive that was handed out contained a series of images from upcoming content, and as expected, there was a Q&A session with Courtney Woods moderating the party. Many thanks to Dulfy of for the flashdrive assets, and Youtube user Mike Goeppner for capturing video of the event from which I culled the basic questions and answers. As is fairly standard at these things, players asked a lot of really good questions that we all want to know the answers to, but the BioWare folks weren’t going to reveal anything before its time. New playable species…

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Atlanta, GA Community Cantina – Flash Drive Assets

Here are the contents of the Atlanta Cantina Tour flashdrive. Items of interest includes some screenshots of the Quesh Huttball, new GS Denon map, screens of Tython/Korriban flashpoints that all coming with patch 2.7. I really like the concept art for the new flashpoint NPC’s. Theron Shan looks awesome! If you are not familiar with this guy, I can tell you he is a Republic spy in Republic SIS, and the secret son of Satele Shan, making him a direct descendant of the legendary Jedi Knights Revan and Bastila Shan. He is also the main protagonist in the webcomic series The Lost Suns, and the main character in the novel by Drew Karpyshyn called  Annihilation New Cartel market items: Quesh Huttball Galactic Starfighter Denon map Tython and Korriban Flashpoints

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Community Cantina Tour – Atlanta, GA – New Mini Pet

BioWare is changing the Cantina Tour give out pet. Starting from the next event in Atlanta, participants will no longer be given the Taunfawn mini pet, but instead a new M8-3R Astromech! Pretty cool eh? The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Atlanta, GA! | 02.26.2014, 01:25 PM Hey folks! I wanted to announce something I am pretty excited about for our Atlanta event… a new community mini-pet! That’s right, we feel the Taunfawn may have run its course and it is time for a new pet. Our new mini-pet is the M8-3R Astromech! He is a sleek yellow and silver, in honor of our forum colors. Atlanta will be the first event where we are giving away the M8-3R instead of the Taunfawn, and we will continue to give away the droid from that event forward for the rest of the year. If you don’t have…

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2014 Community Cantina Tour Locations

BioWare’s Courtney Woods updated the forum community with a list of locations the Community Cantina Tour will be visiting through out 2014. Below is the list of locations as well as the estimated date time frame for the events. When we come closer to the event they will post a blog with further details for that Cantina Tour – until then these are subject to change! Atlanta, GA – February 28th Boulder, CO – March 21-23rd Boston, MA (PAX East) – April 11-13th Vancouver, Canada – May 23-25th Los Angeles, CA (E3) – June 10-12th San Diego, CA (SDCC) – July 24-27th Cologne, Germany (Gamescom) – August 13-17th Seattle, WA (PAX Prime) – August 30th – September 2nd New York, NY (NYCC) – October 9-12th Las Vegas, NV – November 7-9th Austin, TX – November 21-23rd It’s interesting til notice they only will visit Europe once, and no meetings a…

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Community Cantina Tour – Atlanta, GA – 2/28

The date for the next Star Wars: The old Republic Community Cantina is up. BioWare will be visiting Atlanta, GA on February 28.  Hopefully this event will give us the first hints on what to expect in game update 2.7. Check out the announcement below. The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Atlanta, GA! 02.07.2014 We’re happy to announce that the next stop in the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Friday, February 28th, 2014 in Atlanta! This is your chance to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic community for a development team Q&A as well as complimentary drinks*, food, and giveaways. Every attendee will be receiving a highly coveted Tauntaun Fawn code. Space is limited so be sure to come early. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by and hang out with us! Venue: The Tabernacle Date:…

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Phoenix Community Cantina Flash-drive Contents

We know we are late with this story,  due to a misunderstanding we are posting it a few days late. But here goes. BioWare had one of there infamous  SWTOR Community Cantina’s this last weekend. At the event new info was released as well as alot of hints of what might be comming. Housing stevebelt  asked about player housing, and while the verbal answer was of the “that’s a good idea” variety, judging by his not-so-wry smile and general body language, I’d say it’s almost a certainty they are working on player housing. In his question he made a note of how ripe for CM player housing content was, and the smiling/nodding only got bigger. Based on this, I would be completely stunned if we don’t see player housing in 2014.  New Story At the Cantina they said that a new story arc would begin with the 2.7 update, and would…

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Community Cantina Tour – Phoenix, AZ – 1/31/14

Bioware will be having there next Community Cantina in Phoenix on January 31. Unlike all previous Cantina Tours this one is listed as 18 years + rather than 21+. I’m not sure why that is? Local state laws? I don’t have much knowledge of US law, so I’m only guessing. Below is the official statement: The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Phoenix, AZ! 01.06.2014 We’re happy to announce that the next stop in the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Friday, January 31st, in Phoenix, AZ! This is your chance to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic community for a development team Q&A as well as complimentary drinks*, food, and giveaways. Every attendee will be receiving a highly coveted Tauntaun Fawn code. Space is limited so be sure to come early. If you’re in the area, make sure…

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SWTOR Austin Cantina Tour thumbdrive assets

BioWare haold one of the famous cantina tour parties last night at there headquarter in Austin – Texas. While not much new information was given, all attendees got thumbdrive containing GS concept arts and screenshots of new Cartel Market items, and stuff coming with Galactic Starfighter. Check it out below: Minipets from Cartel Market cards Cartel Market Concept arts Galactic Starfighter Concept arts/Screenshots

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San Francisco Cantina Tour thumbdrive files

The lifting of the Galactic Starfighter NDA, comes the day after BioWare hold their cantina tour gathering in San Francisco last night. At the event, all attendees got a thumbdrive whit images and info of upcoming content. Below are all the images including: Six GS screenshots, Tons of GS concept arts/paint jobs (mostly Empire ships) A forest trooper and mountain trooper gear set coming to cartel pack/cartel market New information on upcoming  stuff from the events includes: Public Testing coming up this weekend New Flashpoint (Kuat Driveyards) in February. Role Neutral, Level Neutral. Bridge between regular game and GS. Early Access will feature Strike Fighters, Scouts, Gunships. Bombers in February. Every starfighter model present in the game world will eventually be available in GS. Most will be just be variants of the basic ships available to everyone. Most will be obtained through the Cartel Market Rakghoul/Chevin event coming back sooner than later and…

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Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Austin, Texas – 11/22

BioWare Community Cantina will stop by Austine later this month. As always we should get information about upcoming content from this event. Hopefully the last peaces of information we want to know about upcoming expansion Galactic Starfighter. There is no mention about getting some hands on time with Galactic Starfighter though. If you are in the Austin area when this is going down, let us know. THIS IS AN ADULT EVENT AND ALL ATTENDEES MUST BE OF LEGAL DRINKING AGE TO PARTICIPATE. PLEASE BE PREPARED TO SHOW ID. Important details for the less-than-savvy minors amongst us 😛 The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Austin, Texas! 11.07.2013 We’re happy to announce that the next stop in the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Friday, November 22nd, in Austin! This is your chance to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic community for a development team Q&A…

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Community Cantina: San Francisco, November 13th

If you are in San Francisco, on November 13th, be sure to stop by the EA San Francisco Offices (211 Redwood Shores Parkway Building C. Redwood Shores, CA 94065), for some good times. BioWare will be holding one of their famous Community Cantina, were food, drinks and good fun is assured… Oh.. and you also get freaking  hands-on time with Galactic Starfighter! Since I live in Denmark, and Lisa is from Austine, we wont be there (unless some miracle happens), but let us know if you are. And let us know all the juicy details! Check out the announcement below: We’re happy to announce that the next stop in the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Wednesday, November 13th, in San Francisco! This is your chance to join the Star Wars™: The Old Republic community for a development team Q&A as well as complimentary drinks*, food, and…

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New York Community Cantina infomation

BioWare had a Community Cantina gathering in New York last night, were new game information was released. As always attendance was gifted with a flash drive containing images of upcoming stuff. Items of interest includes a new zaldrate mount and new customization kits for Blizz. The nights discussions also had some items of interest: They want to add better tools to help guildmasters master guilds. Increasing inventory would have an impact on loading time, which is already not all that fast. I asked about new level caps in the future and was told this was a “top secret” question. Adding chapters to class stories involves much expensive logistics, not just writing and coding; they have to bring back the vocal talent, do translations, etc. Adding a new character class is very unlikely. New abilities would have to be designed, a new 50-level character path would have to be written and produced…

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Reminder – Community Cantina Event – New York – 10/12

BioWare will be hosting a Community Cantina Event in New York this comming Saturday. Just in time for people to also visit the New York Comic Con. I’m definitely looking forward to the teases on the thumbdrives, they have NOT dissapointed! Hopefully we’ll get a little insight on 2.5? We’re happy to announce that the next stop in the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Saturday, October 12th, in New York! This is your chance to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic community for a development team Q&A as well as complimentary drinks*, food, and giveaways. Every attendee will be receiving a highly coveted Tauntaun Fawn code. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by and hang out with us! Venue: Stitch Bar and Lounge Date: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 Time: 8-11PM EDT Address: 247 West 37th Street. New York, NY…

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Q&A session from community Cantina – Seattle, August 31

Redna and chill from  ootinicast.com went to the Community Cantina held in Seattle on Saturday evening, 31 August 2013. There they had the chance to sit in on the Q&A session featuring Amber Green (Live Services Specialist) and Eric Musco (Community Manager)  and Lead Designer Damion Schubert. The Community Cantina in Seattle might have been the  biggest cantina ever, with more then 300 people in attendance. Therefor they had to  split up the whole thing, including Q&A, into two parts, and the second round barely got everyone in who was still in line.  The Q&A transcript also includes some questions that was asked afterwards that weren’t part of the formal Q&A. Check ot the snippet below, and read the whole ting over at  ootinicast.com  Q: Why not more playable species, like Nautilans? A: Each species takes tons of time to develop for all the options, moves, and so on. Because Cathar sold well, they are in…

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The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Los Angeles June 13th

Looks like BIoWare is releasing a new destination in there  Community Cantina Tour each week. Last week we got the news that they crew will show up in Dallas on May 17th, and today we learn they will show up in Los Angeles June 13th. Below are the details: We’re happy to announce that the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Community Cantina Tour will be stopping in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 13th! This is your chance to join the Star Wars™: The Old Republic community for a development team Q&A as well as complimentary drinks* and giveaways. Every attendee will be receiving a highly coveted Tauntaun Fawn code. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by and hang out with us! Venue: Caña Rum Bar Date: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 Time: 8-11PM PDT Address: 714 West Olympic Blvd, Downtown LA, CA 90014 Space will be limited, so be sure to arrive early! You can RSVP on Facebook here (Facebook RSVP is…

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