The latest expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic, Legacy of the Sith, has been getting panned by players on Twitter, Reddit, and other platforms. The base game was released on November 21, 2011. The expansion was scheduled to release on the tenth anniversary of this release before being delayed until February 15, 2022.
The problems being faced by players include a bevy of bugs and some questionable design decisions like the overhauled user interface. But players have first and foremost been complaining about the brief story mode.
The biggest criticism has been the very term used to describe Legacy of the Sith. Players have been refusing to even call this an expansion. “It’s clear that funding and team size have dropped massively since Knights of the Eternal Throne,” the user Erastopic said in a post on Reddit. “Calling this an expansion is a crime.”
This isn’t the first time that players have expressed these sentiments. Erastopic notes that “we went through the same thing” after Onslaught was released. “Massive hype that resulted in what at the time was the shortest expansion in the game’s history.”
“I dare say the majority of the player base for Star Wars: The Old Republic play it for the story and rewarding those players after a two-year wait with a two-hour short story that could have been a story update for Onslaught is nothing but insulting at best,” the user says. “If this is the new standard when it comes to content for expansions, it’s time to stop calling them one.”
The post by Erastopic has thousands of upvotes and hundreds of comments. Players have been expressing similar concerns on the official forums.
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The developer behind the game, BioWare, has been making progress on the bugs, but apparently has no intention of changing the user interface. The company has made no statement on the story mode.
This despondency on the part of players finds a reflection in their reviews of the game on Steam. Legacy of the Sith is currently pushing 100 reviews on the platform and the overall response has been mixed. The general assessment of the situation seems to be that while dedicated players should wait for an upcoming patch, new and returning players might just want to steer clear of the expansion entirely.