SOE Also Making a New Star Wars MMOG?

Hand Solo writes 'Ten Ton Hammer has an inside scoop on SOE making a new browser-based MMOG based on Star Wars. Rumor is that it will be run on the Free Realms platform. This is generating a lot of buzz around the net. Quoting: 'Former and current Star Wars Galaxies players can still remember the sting of the 'New Game Experience' that changed the face of that game for everyone. SOE has repeatedly said that they have learned from their mistakes, and plan to not repeat them. If SOE isn't expressly targeting the hardcore segment this time around, they (unlike BioWare) won't have quite the same initial level of expectations to deal with. Don't let us give you the impression that SOE plans to take on BioWare, and their highly anticipated MMOG debut, The Old Republic, particularly given the engine the game is rumored to be based on. More plausible is that it will be based off the Clone Wars CGI animated film, offering a more stylized approach to the universe. "

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Re:Browser Based?

[Darkness404]

You mean browser based MMOs like Runescape or Kingdom of Loathing? Or all the social-networking MMOs? Or what about kids games with MMO-like themes like Neopets or other virtual pet sites or Adventure Quest All you are really limited by is A) Connection speed and B) Graphics. However its -far- more convenient for your users. For one is the ability to play it on almost any computer, from a netbook to a Core i7, to your old Pentium III stored in your basement. Its also OS independent, if you stick to Flash, Java, server-side code and Javascript. Another is portability, its unfeasible to install WoW on a library computer or a locked-down internet cafe computer, but most computers have Flash, a browser and Java and so you could play a browser-based MMO quite easily.

Re:Browser Based?

[negRo_slim]

And let us not forget Quake Live, pretty impressive for a browser plug-in. And once you run in full screen the whole 'browser based' part has less and less meaning.