GAMING: Star Wars: the Old Republic MMO Announced!

[Carthusianish]

I am so IN:

swtor.com/

Bioware’s creativity and integrity as game makers + EA’s backing = something spectacular!

Don’t know when it will be released but this promises to be quite something.

 

[Bataar]

I was crushed by this news. I’ve been waiting for a true sequel to the KOTOR series since I finished KOTOR2. While rumors have swirled that a MMO would be forthcoming in the series, I never thought they would betray their core fan base in this manner. The best thing about the KOTOR series is the story and there’s no way they can have a deep, character driven story in an MMO. Plus, I won’t pay a monthly fee to play games and I don’t like multiplayer games in general so needless to say, I’m upset.

 

[Carthusianish]

although…they did say that Story was one of the main pillars and that it would be a deep, individualized story dependent on a player’s actions and their character’s identity. I see that as quite close to what a KOTOR 3 would have been.

I understand your disappointment – everyone has their own very specific expectations for something like this. Even with it being an MMO I have several specifics I hope that they do in it. But at the end of the day, I am not the one making this game so I dont have any control over it. I’ll try to be happy with whatever they make as long as it is pretty good and I think they can make something pretty good. I am just happy there will be a new Star WArs based MMO to replace Star Wars Galaxies (which I played when it first came out until they destroyed it by changing it.)

 

[Carthusianish]

Well, you never know. If you recall, KOTOR 2 was not done by Bioware but by Obsidian – who knows, maybe Lucasarts requested Bioware’s MMO take place 300 years later so that they could get someone else (like Obsidian) to still do a KOTOR 3 to finish the story.

We’ll just have to see. I love MMOs and I love the Star Wars universe so I am super happy!