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LucasArts, Bioware Announce Star Wars MMO
LucasArts and Bioware held a press conference today to confirm what has been suspected for a long time: they're working on a Star Wars MMO. It will be called Star Wars: The Old Republic, and it will be a continuation of the Knights of the Old Republic franchise. Further coverage is available at Gamespot, and IGN has some of the concept art. An official website for the game was launched as well.
"According to the game's official announcement, Star Wars: The Old Republic is set thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader, with the galaxy divided by war between the Empire and the Sith. That's about 300 years after the events of KotOR, a time frame that, according to Zeschuk, 'is completely unexplored in the lore.' Players can take the role of either a Jedi, a Sith or other classic Star Wars characters -- and, as perhaps can be expected from BioWare, Muzyka says story will be a major component, underlying and driving all of the player's actions."
Eh. The problem isn't how they made it. The game they made was okay, and it developed a nice little niche following.
And then WoW blew up, and they decided to try and be WoW, even though the game had been pretty much designed to be NOT WoW, at which point the whole thing caught fire imploded and shit itself into a grotesque mockery of life.
Look at Eve...Same era, also sci-fi themed, similarly geared toward the hardcore contingent, but Eve stayed true to itself and is quietly prospering.
What Blizzard does well is figure out what they want to do, and make it into a good game. What Sony (and EA) does well is try to figure out what will make them the most money in the shortest time.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Yeah, like there is a Highlander 2.
"There can be only one."
There should have been only one!
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I don't know, it's kind of comforting to see that not everyone has grown up into a boring person as most seem to do. At least you're excited and happy about something, right?