nice find Cos.

Movie makes it look good... but I have a strange feeling it will be an utter failure in some ways

I so can not wait for this game. Loved the Kotors and this is bigger better and badass, especially the abillity on being a bounty hunter. Though a problem is, don't know whether it is online or offline or both.

Yeah 'TOR' is an MMO, so purely online. People have been wanting a KOTOR 3 for years, and there had beena rumour that it was going to be an MMO.

For the moment, this is KOTOR 3, even though it is 500 years after the events of those games. Leaves them open to go back and do a single player KOTOR 3 i suppose.

I love the back story though, it's truly fascinating.

Can't wait, can't wait. I know this is most unlikely but you guys think we are going to establish a foothold in this game, lets say make a guild and if like SWG possibly make a city. Just theory.

Not really Ibram. There is Bounty hunters which might just introduce a whole new brand of gameplay into the universe. Let's hope it does as being a BH on SWG got boring for me after a while.

Will it be like Star Wars Galaxy and you have to pay for it per month?

That is so exceedingly likely that it can be considered a foregone conclusion. I would be shocked (SHOCKED!) if $15/month was not charged for SW:OR

As far as interaction with our organization goes, more information is likely needed. That said, there are a number of ways to do it if the game's internal grouping looks anything like the guilds that prevail in pretty much every other MMO ever.

One thing to do would be to simply use the VE's exsiting framework as an orginizational basis for building a guild. The guild and a VE character would be necissarily divorced, given the game's setting and the VE's current timeline. Having the VE already here provides a lot of things that otherwise have to be set up seperately - forums, rosters, and the like.

If that is the case, one way of doing things would be to set up a guild (or guilds, depending on membership limits and the like) within the game that are headed by a few of the main officers here (for example, me, since I'll likely be playing. or Cos, or Tal, or whoever) with various officer powers within that guild distributed accordingly. Meanwhile on the VE side of things, not a lot changes. If we recruit people from inside the game, we have them sign up here too. If needed we can create a dedicated Squad/Squadron for members who are game-only or something if they really don't want to participate in the rest of the VE's activities.

I, for one, see the game as a potential recruitment vessel. Sure not everyone who we recruit from within the game will want to write, but that's fine, really. We've already got a well-established organization. If even 10-15 current members start up, get organized, and coordinate their efforts, we have a lot of potential to build a very strong community in the game and recruit from the community into the out-of-game community we already have.

Kinda win-win. Randomish and ranty, I know, but I wanted to illustrate the potential gain for our club with a new multiplayer SW game being published.

I was completely not excited after watching the trailer and even less excited to learn that its a MMO simply because I always disagreed that games should be paid for monthly, toss in some advertising.

i'm super excited for this too, i loved the KOTOR games and the idea of a real starwars mmo blew my mind, although i agree with Rogue Boy, the monthly fee is a turn off, why can't more mmo's take after guild wars and not charge a monthly fee

Blizzard claims like over a million monthly subscribers or something. Lets go with a more conservative number. Say 500K.

500K x $15/month = $7.5 Million

Now, that looks like a lot, but then cut out their server costs. Including hosting, electricity, etc, thats going to be a big chunk out of that. But it isn't all of it. They take a huge chunk of what is left and then use it to pay their staff and keep the updates rolling while the rest if profit. Cha-ching.

And remember, I cut down the number they claim. If it is actually more like what they say that is, double that number back up to about $15m/month

It really isn't just a server. They're almost certainly using some sort of clustered computing solution for each "Server" of the game. Given some of the errors you can get in the game "Map server not found!" it seems likely that each such server cluster is, itself, composed of a number of other server clusters. The end result is that each game server is sure to take up several racks of space, possibly even rooms of servers. I'm not really familiar with the system requirements of the server side of their app, but it is doubtless pretty hefty.

No offense, but i pretty much knew all the stuff mentioned in that video from books.............what ppl say is true, books are better............

Not sure if you guys have seen the trailer recently reveled at E3. I'm an addict already and it hasn't even been released yet

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