STAR WARS: The Old Republic, developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts, will deploy Game Update 7.7.1b on September 9. Servers will go down at 5:00am CT / 10:00am UTC for an estimated 8 hours, affecting online play and scheduled events.
The maintenance begins at 5:00am CT / 10:00am UTC on September 9 and is expected to last about 8 hours. Scheduled in-game services and logins may be interrupted during the window. A complete list of patch notes will be published on Monday. Read the official Steam announcement for the schedule and details: official Steam announcement.
While the specifics of the update are not posted yet, the maintenance window suggests a mix of backend fixes and content tweaks that might require careful rollout across regions and platform services. Some fixes may be invisible to players until servers return. Login queues and scheduled events could shift. Patch notes on Monday should clarify the exact scope of work.
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