Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Q&A

Another week's worth of community-submitted questions has been answered over on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic website, though this time around the team's responses are fairly short. For example:
Lesai: When it comes to planning content and game direction, how much of it is based on the developers' plan for the game, and how much of it is based on community suggestion and feedback?

Daniel Erickson (Lead Game Designer): As we come to the end of our big must-have features (like Group Finder), updates are driven more and more by the community. Expect to see far more of the smaller quality of life requested features (color matching for companions, chat bubbles, etc.) start to get real traction under them in the near future.

CelCawdro: What are your long-term plans for implementing playable species? Are Cathar merely the first of semi-regular species additions?

Daniel: Like all of our ongoing content updates, we'll release Cathar into the wild and see how they perform. If new species are clearly popular we'll keep them coming!