Our 10-year anniversary is only a few months away! For such a momentous occasion, we wanted to do something special to celebrate with our players.
Every year around the launch anniversary for Star Wars: The Old Republic, we have an in-game anniversary event to celebrate. To commemorate the occasion, we add new rewards to a vendor that only appears during the event. As this upcoming anniversary is our 10-year celebration, we want to do something memorable: this year, players can help choose some of the rewards we add to the celebration!
Starting today, players can submit screenshots taken anywhere on ten select SWTOR planets. Take a screenshot of a scenic vista, a vibrant forest, a peaceful stream… and we’ll choose the screenshot that we feel captures the essence of that planet. One winner will be chosen per planet for a total of ten winning submissions.
The winning submissions will then be turned into Stronghold decorations and distributed by the 10-year Anniversary event vendor in-game! The ten eligible planets for this contest are:
- Hutta
- Korriban
- Ord Mantell
- Tython
- Tatooine
- Makeb
- Yavin 4
- Zakuul
- Ossus
- Mek-Sha
Since this is an event celebrating ten years of SWTOR, the team wanted to include planets that represent every era of the game’s history.
How to Enter
If you’re interested in participating in this contest, you can enter by submitting your screenshots to [email protected]. You’re more than welcome to submit a screenshot for multiple planets, but please limit all submissions to only one planet per email, and please only submit one image per planet. All image submissions must follow certain guidelines:
- No Player Characters in screenshot (NPCs are allowed).
- The in-game UI needs to be turned off. The default command for this is Alt+Z. This includes having nameplates turned off.
- Screenshots of cinematics do NOT qualify.
- No additional editing done to screenshots. For example, no filters added or editing done by external tools.
- Camera settings must be within intended in-game parameters. This means not using external tools or editing game files to exceed in-game settings.
- Graphics settings at Very High or Ultra
- Image Size: 1920x1080. The team will crop the chosen screenshots to a 4:3 format.
- Image Format: JPG
In addition to those image requirements, we ask that your email include the following information:
- Subject line clearly states the name of the contest and the specific planet where your screenshot submission was taken. Example: "The Best View In SWTOR Contest - Tatooine Submission".
- Account Name.
- Name of an existing character on the listed account.
- Server the listed character resides on.
Rules and Regulations
Players have from now until 11:59pm CDT on October 5th, 2021 to submit their screenshots! In addition to the above mentioned criteria and required information, there are a few additional rules players must follow in order for their submission to qualify:
- Qualifying accounts must have been created by August 31st, 2021.
- Accounts need to have a clean standing, both in-game and on the forum. No record of in-game suspension since September 1st, 2020 and no forum suspensions since June 1st, 2021.
- Character names must abide by our ToS rules.
- Screenshot submissions without the required information (Account name, Character name, and Server name) provided in the same email as the screenshot will be rejected.
- Each account is limited to one submission per planet. If you want to submit a screenshot for each eligible planet, please send a separate submission per planet.
- Submission emails that have more than one image attached will be disqualified.
- Email subject lines must follow the “The Best View In SWTOR Contest - [insert planet name] Submission” format.
Failure to adhere to the above guidelines will result in your submission being rejected. In the event that several people submit the same, or very similar, screenshots, the screenshot submitted first will be selected as the winner, so don’t wait to email us!
Results Announcement
After the SWTOR team selects the winning submissions, we’ll publish an article announcing the winners before our upcoming ‘Legacy of the Sith’ expansion launches. In this announcement, we’ll reveal the winning screenshots, and credit each player (Character Name / Server) who submitted a winning screenshot.
While the winners are credited outside of the game, they will receive something special in SWTOR; a gilded version of the screenshot they submitted! While the normal versions will be available to everyone via the 10-year Anniversary event vendor as soon as the event starts in December, the gilded versions will be distributed shortly after the event starts.
We look forward to seeing what screenshots the community comes up with!
A full breakdown of the official contest rules can be found in this article on our main website.