Community Cantina Tour

The SWTOR Community Cantina Arrives in New York!

It’s been a while, but The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour is back. This time it will be happening on  October 4th at Stitch 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, giveaways, and more. Attendees will receive exclusive swag! Space is limited so be sure to come early. Venue: Stitch NYCDate: Friday, October 4th 2019Time: 7:00 – 10:00PM ESTAddress: 247 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018 We look forward to seeing you there!

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Musco Responds to the SWTOR NYCC Cantina Chatter

Eric Musco took on the forums and posted a response to clarify some of the things that was talked about during the SWTOR community cantina at  this years New York Comic Con last Friday. NYC Cantina Discussion – Official Response? | 10.11.2016, 03:34 PM Quote: Originally Posted by Jamtas So I appreciate that Cristina Petrarca did some live tweeting during the Cantina of the information spoken of to go along with the site updates from Friday. (and thanks to Dulfy for linking them all as well) However, I just wanted to see if Eric, Ben or Charles was going to make a post summing everything up that was discussed as well so we can get some clear idea of everything? Are chapters being released all at once for the “binging”, in batches? Mention of a livestream in January regarding operations. Is that true, or is it not operations but Group content…

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Mount Code from SWTOR NYC Cantina

Here is the SWTOR New York Comic Con Cantina Exclusive Mount Code: “NYCantina16”  You get the mount by going to your account page and place the code NYCantina16 in your account page under Code Redemption. Then exit the game, and when you log back in, you will receive the Korrealis Sheriff speeder in your mailbox. You get one for every character existing and you will ever make.

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

It’s been a while, but The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour is back. This time it will be happening on Friday, October 7th, 2016 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*, giveaways, and more. Attendees will receive exclusive swag! 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: Stitch Bar & Lounge Date: Friday, October 7th, 2016 Time: 7:00-10:00PM EDT Address: 247 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018 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). We look forward to seeing you there! -The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Team *…

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SWTOR Cantina event Celebration 2016 [Video]

Here is a video captured from the 2016 SWTOR Cantina event, at Star Wars celebration Europe. I suggest starting at about 2 minutes, 20 seconds: they spend the time before this trying to get the microphones to work + announcing that they will play the #SWTOR5 trailer again later at the Cantina. Dulfy also had A reader has sent over this private Q&A he had with the developers with a focus on group content. Here is a snippet: Q: “Why do so many questions go ignored for so long, it becomes hard to try and defend the dev team and Bioware. Why cant you just say ‘there will be more group content’ or ‘there will be more ops’ “ A: “It all comes down to Shadow of Revan. We announced we would release info on a new expansion and when the date of the announcement came, we had issues and had to…

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NYCC Community Cantina and Cosplay Contest

The time has come for another SWTOR Community Cantina, the last on the calendar for 2015.  This time the Cantina lines up with New York Comic Con and there was a decent turnout at the Hard Rock Cafe. When I arrived around 6:20, there was already a line forming outside the building. They got the cosplayers inside early and the rest of us promptly at 7pm. We were given tickets for free drinks and our other goodies and Hard Rock staff were walking around with some good food (great for those who had just come over from NY Comic Con and also for those of us standing around in line awaiting entry.) As always, the staff are super friendly and always around to chat and answer questions. They’re a lot of fun to hang with and in addition to the cosplay contest and the Q&A, they made sure to mingle…

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Gamescom Cantina Q&A Video

BioWare had a Community cantina at Gamescon yesterday, and quite alot of new info is now available. Below is a 30 min Q and A video captured  by Echilda of The Potentiae on The Red Eclipse at the event, and below the video,Gamescom Cantina Q&A gathered by Dulfy from around the web. Lot’s of new interesting stuff guys! From jedipedia twitter No new fleet planned but there is a central hub you can travel to during the expansion There are big changes to crafting coming which they will explain later in a blog post. To add to that, someone mentioned that apparently they are planning to make gathering nodes adaptive, give you mats based on your crew skill level and the planet you are on Very early designs for SWTOR had a free roam space where you can drive your ship around and AT-AT walkers you could drive. From Gamona.de Companions…

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SWTOR Seattle Cantina Tour Canceled

The Seattle Cantina Tour  has been canceled, as BioWare needs to spend all it energy on getting Star Wars: The old Republic Fallen Empire ready. Instead the team will do a livestream with some gameplay of a chapter of the upcoming expansion. PAX Cantina – Important Update: Revised Plan | 07.27.2015, 08:22 AM Hey folks, We wanted to give you an update on a change of plans around our Seattle Cantina, planned to happen around PAX Prime. As we have been looking at our schedule, we feel that as we are just a few short months from Fallen Empire’s launch, it is really important that we focus our resources internally. Our goal is to deliver a AAA-quality expansion and we need to allow the team to put their focus on development priorities, to put all resources into making Knights of the Fallen Empire the best it can be. With that in…

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Go to San Diego Cantina Tour and get 30 days sub and some cartel coins

Attendees in the daytime event, at San Diego cantina tour, Will get 30 days sub and some cartel coins: The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in San Diego, California! | 07.09.2015, 07:32 PM Hey folks! I wanted to let you know about a promotion we will be running during our San Diego Cantina. If you stop by anytime during the day, log into one of the laptops we have there, and show us that you have an account and are opted in to receive emails we will claim a code for you on the spot which will add 30 days of sub time and some Cartel Coins. Just a little something extra for those of you come to visit us during Comic-Con. Note that you will need to log into your account (so if you have a security key, make sure to bring it along), we…

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The SWTOR Story Panel at SDCC

BioWare will be having a story panel for Star Wars: The old Republic at San Diego comic con. This is part of the San Diego Cantina Tour, and if you have questions for the panels you can now ask them on the forums. Hey folks! As many of you saw, last week we announced our schedule for San Diego Comic-con. As part of that, we are going to be hosting a Story panel featuring Lead Writer Charles Boyd along with the Producers of the amazing “Sacrifice” trailer. What they would like to know is what questions do you have for the panel? The panel will be focusing on the story around Knights of the Fallen Empire along with the making of and the story behind the “Sacrifice” trailer. So let us know what questions we can relay to these fine folks. Keep in mind, these questions should focus around the…

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Anaheim Cantina attendee-only rewards just went out

BioWare just send out the Anaheim Cantina attendee-only rewards. All attendees get 450 Cartel Coins! Hello <username>, We would like to start off by thanking you for pre-registering and attending the STAR WARS™ Celebration Cantina in Anaheim. It was a great event and all of us here at BioWare are thankful that so many of you could join us. As we mentioned on the pre-registration page, pre-registrants that attended the event would receive a special bonus. Below, you will find a code that you can redeem on your account page via www.swtor.com. Once redeemed, that code will grant you 450 Cartel Coins for you to use as you see fit! Your code: <code>, Again, thank you so much for joining us in Anaheim, we hope you had a great time! If you are interested in giving us feedback on how we might improve our Cantinas, feel free to fill out…

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SWTOR Anaheim 2015 Cantina Tour Flash Drive Files

Vulkk already posted an excellent recap video of the SWTOR Community Cantina Event from Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2015. But if you are interested in watching the whole vent, we have the video for you here. Below the video you can check out all the cool stuff from the 2015 Cantina Tour Flash Drive Files: Secret File Inside the thumbdrive is this file named as secretfile. The tag line is Hidden Away in the Dark of the Galaxy, Remained a Secret. The hidden image has now been uncovered and posted below: Yavin 4 Stronghold Ziost Cartel Market

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SWTOR Celebration Cantina Live Stream Recap and Overview (Star Wars Celebration 2015)

This Saturday a special Panel aired live for ~52 minutes on Twitch. Bioware live streamed the SWTOR Community Cantina event from Celebration Anaheim 2015.The video linked below is Vulkk’s recap of the SWTOR Community Cantina Event from Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2015. Did Bioware drop the ball with lack of new information or we got the awesome news we were dreaming for? Alongside the event notes, you will hear also his personal opinion and overview of the event.

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Community Event Pre-registration is now live!

BioWare is trying something new for this year’s Cantina Tours.  Starting with the Anaheim Cantina Tour in April is a pre-registration program that allow those who registered to earn additional rewards if they attend the registered cantina tour. Community Event Pre-registration is now live! | 04.07.2015, 09:07 PM Hey folks, I wanted to tell you about our new Cantina pre-registration page! You can find the page and some more details on it here. However, let me give you the TLDR on the perks of pre-registering for our Cantinas: If you pre-register and attend the Cantina, you are eligible for a pre-registrant exclusive swag drawing! If you pre-register and then redeem that Cantina exclusive pack code, you will receive an additional in-game reward. Pre-registrants will get priority access to the Cantina (you get in first!) Note: RSVPing on Facebook does not count as pre-registering, you must do it through this new…

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The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Anaheim, California on 18 April

BioWare just announced that the next stop in the Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Friday 18 April at 19:00–22:00 in PDT. The event will be hold at Hilton Anaheim 777 W Convention Way, Anaheim, California 92802: We’re happy to announce that the next stop in the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Saturday, April 18th, in Anaheim for STAR WARS: Celebration! This is your chance to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic community for a development team presentation as well as complimentary drinks*, food, and giveaways. Every attendee will also be receiving an Anaheim exclusive Prinawe Congregate vehicle code. We will also have a special appearance by the 501st, a green screen area for photos, and more! Space is limited so be sure to come early. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by and…

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Boston Community Cantina Cancelled

Due to snow, BioWare is cancelling the Boston Community Cantina. EricMusco Cancelled The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Boston, Massachusetts! | 02.20.2015, 09:10 AM Hey folks, Unfortunately I am here to deliver some bad news. Due to the crazy winter the northeast has been getting hit with, we are going to cancel our Boston Cantina Event. I know this may impact plans that some of you are having and so we tried to make this decision ASAP based on what the weather conditions looked like. I will make sure our news article and Facebook event also reflect this. However, as you know, at our Cantinas it has been our goal to change up the format a little bit. Focus less on the Q&A and more on a presentation or something akin to that where we can deliver new information. Well, we are going to take our…

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SWTOR Community Cantina Tour Schedule for 2015

Lead Community Coordinator Courtney Woods, was so good to e-mail us BioWares plans for upcoming Community Cantina events this year. The plans are below.  The next event will be at PAX East next month in Boston, MA on Saturday, March 7th at the Hyatt Grand Regency.  Please let us know if you will be attending any of these events. April Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, CA July San Diego Comic-Con August Gamescom in Cologne, Germany September PAX Prime in Seattle, WA October New York Comic-Con

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SWTOR: Pax South Cantina Tour Flash Drive Files

Here are the Pax South Cantina Tour files provided by Baa’nariim of Harbinger. Below is a run through of what attendance learned at the conference. New costume designer coming with patch 3.2 and a video will be added soon. The decision for action taken against ravagers exploiters finalized this morning. There will be a post from musco about it (no specific timeframe on when this will take action or the post will happen) There is no plan to change the new slot machine’s drop rate from its current form. They are sort of “afraid” of releasing future slot machines (future slot machines for other cartel reputations) due to the backlash and the controversy created by the community. Two more game expansions before end of the year. New Togruta race, new stronghold New planet Ziost in April They read Bruce Macleans developer letter which is slated for release on the website…

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The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in San Antonio, TX: 01/23 @ 7 PM CST

BioWare announced that the next stop in the Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Friday January 23rd, 2015 in San Antonio, Texas. 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 M8-3R Astromech code. Venue: Henry B Gonzalez Convention Center Room 007D** Date: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 Time: 7-10PM CST Address: 200 East Market Street – San Antonio, TX 78205 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). * This is an adult event and all attendees must be prepared to show ID. ** A PAX Friday or 3-Day Badge is required for entry.

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Las Vegas Community Cantina Flash Drive Contents

The SWTOR Las Vegas Cantina Tory is over. As always, attendance got a nice flashdrive full of nice new images from the BioWare custom printed pop up tent models. It looks like the new revanite armor is unsurprisingly less dread guardy and more revany. The mount looks cool. The giant Massassi looks like an Ops boss, and those twin walkers look like the old twin tanks from EC. Check it out below:

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The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Las Vegas, Nevada!

BioWare announced that the next stop in the Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Thursday, October 9th, 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 M8-3R Astromech code. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by and hang out with the SWTOR Team. Venue: Mandalay Bay North Convention Center Date: Saturday, November 15th, 2014 Time: 7-10PM PST Address: 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 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). Edit: Eric Musco did a Forum update on this: EricMusco The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour…

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SWTOR New York Cantina Tour Flash Drive Files and Review

If you’re wondering what happened at the SWTOR New York Cantina Tour, then Dulfy (as usual) has the hook-up for you. She has a fantastic, detailed post up already with tons of images from the Flash Drive files as well as a transcription of the Q&A and more information. The flash drive even has images of the new planets that are coming with Shadow of Revan expansion. Head on over here to this link and see Dulfy’s post to see it all for yourself and give her site some love. Here’s a table of contents of what it has for you. 1 Planet Rishi 2 Planet Yavin 4 3 SOR Gear 4 Cartel Market/Misc 5 Q&A Learn about Planet Rishi, Planet Yavin 3, the new Shadow of Revan gear as well as get a sneak peek at Cartel Market items and other miscellaneous things. Finally, they wrap it all up with the…

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The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in New York, New York!

BioWare announced that the next stop in the Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Thursday, October 9th, 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 M8-3R Astromech code. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by and hang out with us! Venue: Stitch Bar and Lounge Date: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 Time: 8-11PM EDT Address: 247 W 37th St New York, New York 10018 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 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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