Star Wars: The Old Republic is Making a Big Change to Its Servers

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Star Wars: The Old Republic is making a big change to its servers by migrating them to the cloud. This upcoming change is a part of The Old Republic's ongoing efforts to upgrade and modernize the game for its second decade of service.

In a recent blog post for The Old Republic’s 11-year anniversary, it confirmed iterations of its Public Test Server had been hosted on Amazon Web Services. Now, The Old Republic has officially announced it is migrating all of its live servers to AWS in the near future.

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Doing so has a number of benefits for both players and developers. The technology will improve player performance and connectivity, and will allow for more efficient backend maintenance to ensure the health of SWTOR. Resources used to maintain current servers would be freed up to focus on other aspects of the game, and The Old Republic will be able to integrate more modern tech into the game to improve graphics. It may even be able to offer gameplay in regions currently unable to play SWTOR.

To facilitate this migration, Star Wars: The Old Republic is launching a server fully hosted on the AWS cloud to test its functionality. From April 3 through April 18, players will be able to play on the temporary Shae Vizla server to help test it. SWTOR will be looking to find any problems with performance, functionality, visuals, or connectivity with the new cloud host. What’s more, players that log in to this server and complete a PvP match, a Galactic Starfighter match, and a Flashpoint in Star Wars: The Old Republic will receive the highly-coveted Opal Vulptilla mount for all of their live server characters.

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