I would very much like to see this as a possibility. A KOTOR MMO would be excellent. However, I'm having second thoughts about it solely being in KOTOR. I say span it out over time periods, or at least start it off with Bane; after Revan and the Sith Triumvirate, not much seems to happen.

I'd love to see a good Star Wars MMO... just not KotOR.

KotOR is about story. MMOs are about making money. The two don't mix. KotOR as an MMO would be disastrous.

My thought is that an Old Republic era game is WIDE open as far as Star Wars canon goes. You can pretty easily create your two factions with the Republic on one side and the Sith on the other, and possibly have more factions such as the Hutts.

When they say its a 'KOTOR' game, I hope it is -not- KOTOR. I want a game set in the SW universe, LONG before the movies, that still feels essentially like Star Wars.

Second job that doesnt pay. Its either


A: going to be a WoW clone,

B: Fail and be scraped before

or

C: Fail like so many before it,

And to top it off, Kotor is somewhat of a dead franchise... no amount of grinding and leveling will ever make it as good as the first or in some cases the second game

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My thought is that an Old Republic era game is WIDE open as far as Star Wars canon goes. You can pretty easily create your two factions with the Republic on one side and the Sith on the other, and

-So, just throw an old republic skin over Galaxies then?

Bioware's a good company, so they won't make the same mistakes SOE did. The fact that EA is the publisher brings with it mixed feelings. They've been trying to bring out better quality games as of late, but that doesn't forgive their history of just churning out corporate trash. But they did can Tiberium because it was apparantly shit, so maybe they've seen the light (side).

I think the Industry is finally starting to break away from the 'WOW' formula anyway. AoC did some things different, like Combat etc... and now WAR is doing it's own things that are different.

The fact that Star Wars is set in space will also help, as it opens up a ton of new possibilities for them. It probably won't be as unnesscarily complex as EVE, but I hope they can bring in some of EVE's ship-based PVP battles - after all that era in star wars was as much about fleet engagements as it was land combat.

A good setting would actually be the Mandalorian Wars, just before the first two games. The amount of conflict in that time period was huge, and whilst their was no Sith per say until Revan fell, I'm sure there's room enough in the Canon to add the faction, then it can be a three way.

Surprised,are you? /end yoda

Seriously, I think they'll screw it up. Lucasarts has a talent for that kind of thing... I'll just sit in a bomb shelter and cling to my original KOTOR.

It hasn't come out yet, and my canon sense is already telling me to run away..Sith Emperor, cold war in space, etc...

Shudder...

A pretty good dev video that just has a bunch of devs talking. Good so far, outlines their vision.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/starwarstheoldrepublic/video.html?sid=6199708&tag=gs.email

I suspect it won't be out for ages, so start saving

/me tackles Dec and brings him into a corner

KEKEKEKEKE!

Anyway, this game looks like it is going to be cool, they finally put it back into BioWare's hands.

They are sort of absurdly large. I'm hoping that they fix the graphics for that at some point. That seems to be a common comment for the screenshots, hopefully they'll take the hint.

They haven't really said anything about it yet as far as game mechanics go. I'm personally hoping for a level-less system of some kind, as Galaxies originally had, with a smoother type of mechanic behind it (instead of just having dozens of different kinds of experience; it makes sense, but its clunky). I really don't like levels as a mechanic in general and think that getting away from them can do a lot of good. That said, KOTOR I and II were essentially based on the d20 system (boo) so levels may be inevitable.

Aye, kind of enjoyed that system when Galaxies had it.

That is, of course, what I mean. :P

I actually wouldn't mind the graphics being cartoony... just no lightsaber hilts that could crush stone.