

In an exhaustive post on the SWTOR forums, Senior Online Community Manager Stephen Reid explains that the high-resolution textures-which players were able to enjoy before the game's official public launch-were removed due to a "deliberate decision by the development team."Īpparently the decision to remove high-resolution textures rendered outside of the cinematic cutscenes was due largely to the fact that in an MMO, it's not really possible to know how many characters will be on screen and viewable at a given moment. After some promised investigation, word has finally come out as to why said textures have vanished, and while it makes sense, it's probably not the answer that player were hoping for. The official Star Wars: The Old Republic community forums have been abuzz with complaints from players who've been wondering why most high-resolution textures in BioWare's MMO have gone missing after the game launched.
