Bioware have warned that heading into your Old Republic game's files and editing the loading screen, an exciting new trend amongst players of the latest Star Wars MMOs, could corrupt your installation and, besides, the next patch will probably undo all your hard work either way.
Joveth Gonzalez, Bioware community manager, felt that this was becoming widespread enough to be worth a brief warning on the official forums.
"We’ve noticed that many of you have been going into your SWTOR game files and overwriting the default loading screen. While this has resulted in some very impressive custom loading screens, we need to remind you all that changing game files will corrupt your installation and force you to repair with the subsequent patch."
Feeling that this didn't quite end on the right sort of diabolical note, he added "overwrite your SWTOR loading screen at your own peril." That's right, changing your loading screen to something based on My Little Pony may result in actual peril – don't forget.
