Bioware's new MMO-- Star Wars: The Old Republic

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Kasz216 on 21 October 2008

shio said:

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shio said:
Man this game could be amazing. Star Wars is simply perfect to be an MMO, with a vast universe with thousands of planets.

I hope they let you have your own ship and have space dogfights. So amazing.

Didn't Star Wars Galaxies try all that and fail miserbly? I haven't played it but I've only heard bad things about it, even from the people that worked on it.

I never played it , however according to people who did, Star Wars Galaxies was a great game when it came out and had a consistent 300k active subscribers. But then Sony took control over the game's development (I don't know if it's true), made some ABYSMAL changes that the players hated and worsened the game, leading to cancellation of several subscriptions (and I mean alot, around 35-40% cancelled at one time just after one of those mistakes).

Now the userbase of the game is no doubt below 100k, but Star Wars Galaxies was a huge success: It sold over 1 million copies and made alot of dough from the subscriptions. It was definitely more profitable than Kotor, for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Galaxies#Reception_and_criticism

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Zucas on 21 October 2008

Man that sucks. Damnit I wanted KOTOR 3.

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ctk495 on 21 October 2008

Lame I was waiting for KOTOR 3.

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flagship on 21 October 2008

Screens look like garbage, I guess this means we aren't getting KOTOR3 next Christmas. :(

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shio on 21 October 2008

flagship said:
Screens look like garbage, I guess this means we aren't getting KOTOR3 next Christmas. :(

It's in pre-alpha stage. Judging graphical quality at this point is stupid.

http://i48.tinypic.com/120qaon.jpg

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steven787 on 21 October 2008

Too many MMOs, do these companies realize that people generally only play ONE MMO?

I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.

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halogamer1989 on 21 October 2008

I can see this having REAL competition with Stargate Worlds and the guys over @ Cheyenne.

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naznatips on 21 October 2008

I really like the cartoon style of it. Tired of the same old crap in MMOs.

@halogamer joke post? I didn't even know that game existed till you mentioned it, and I'm sure I'm not alone on this. This is a Bioware game and a new Star Wars MMO... you can't really compare it to a franchise as small as Stargate.

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.jayderyu on 21 October 2008

If this game uses low enough system specs. Make good with it's fourth pillar of character story driven gameplay rather than repeat quest game play. Then I know plenty of gamers who will drop WoW to play this. Of course that's just my select of friends not the masses. Theres also Interplays revival attempt with the Fallout MMO. oooh, this should be really hard choice if they are out at the same period and are both good.

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