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[Gavin]

After months of speculation it's been confirmed, KOTOR is being given the MMORPG treatment by role-playing gods Bioware (now owned by EA) with LucasArts support and rechristened simply The Old Republic for this new outing.


Star Wars Galaxies and Sony be damned, we're finally getting the SW MMO we've all wanted where a couple of thousand Jedi and Sith running around the galaxy brandishing lightsabers doesn't look retarded if you know the timelines. We've yet to have confirmation of races and classes, but it's definitely going to be a lot, given their activity in the last two games I'd say we might even get playable Mandos in this one.


Oh and yes, we're getting the Jedi Academy on Tython people, if you call yourself a Star Wars fan and haven't just cried manly tears of joy over Bioware's love of fans through the use of SW lore then you need to go commit seppuku with your plastic lightsaber right now.


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[Edit] Added a few polls.

Edited by Gavin, 06 December 2011 - 07:47 AM.

[PWNED]

I am looking quite forward to this, I do hope that when released that the only way you pay is when you buy the game ala Guild Wars.

[Gavin]

I am looking quite forward to this, I do hope that when released that the only way you pay is when you buy the game ala Guild Wars.

I doubt it to be honest, Guild Wars is pretty much the only MMO that I know that doesn't charge fees and I can't see the LucasArts and EA money-making machines passing up the ability to make even more cash from their fans. That said, if it's relative to the other big MMOs for the content, I'd say it's well worth it, this is a Bioware RPG after all.

Oh something I forgot to add to the original post, May 4th is almost undoubtedly going to be this things release date, probably next year, maybe the year after that but definitely a May 4th. :animesmil

[Drizzt Do'urden]

I've never been a real big star wars fan. But the idea of using the "force" powers in massive arena battles, brandishing awesome blasters and missiles as Bounty Hunters, and massive battles in the vacuum of space via crazy spacecraft is none-the-less interesting.

I don't play a lot of PC games myself, but I would be more than willing to give this a go. Barring I'm nto still lost in a sea of dead locusts and/or dead Nazi's thanks to COD 5 and GOW2

[silpheedpilot]

Like we talked about, Gav, as long as I can be a spacer with some ill blaster skills I'll be just fine playing this until the end of time. Of course, by that I mean until the Warhammer 40k MMO drops.

[Gavin]

Other E3 confirmed facts:

- All players will have their own customisable ships that function as the player "home".

- PvP/RvR will take place in areas called Warzones, although whether this will be confined to instances such as WoW's Battlegrounds or be Open-World like War's RvR Lakes hasn't been confirmed yet.

- Alderaan is/will feature one of these "warzones".

[CaNz]

i just signed up for testing and am now looking at the forum... its freaking huge even though its still a year in the making...

i do plan on getting into this one though i tend to shy away from mmorpg gameplay (i dont have much of a life... but i could have easily wasted what i have away playing warcraft) i am making an exception for this one.... i just like star wars too dang much to let a well made game go by.

(by the way if anyone here has an account my name there is CaNzCo)

[James P. Galvatron]

I can't wait for the game if my labtop can run it then I will be willing to pay as long as its not more than WOW.

[Gavin]

Well after months of waiting it seems Bioware are finally ready to begin beta testing, and not a moment too soon in many eyes. Sadly at the minute it's confined to US only but hopefully I'll get a chance to beta the game when the European one opens.

[CaNz]

yeah.. i signed up for it... but alas i was not chosen.

[Gavin]

Only the first round of testing yet CaNz, keep up hope and you never know.

[Shy]

I've never been a fan of MMORPGs, but this really interests me. Star Wars is a huge passion of mine, and I'm eager to learn more about this era in the Star Wars Universe.

Non-Jedi FTW. I'm hoping that the classes allow a great deal of customization in terms of races and abilities.

-Shy

[CaNz]

Only the first round of testing yet CaNz, keep up hope and you never know.

yeah, I have never picked up an mmorpg before so i didn't consider myself the most eligible candidate, but hopefully i will snag a spot in the beta eventually... i certainly signed up early enough.

[Blue]

After the ridiculous amount of money that was invested in this (Already over 100 million for sure), it would be sad for it to be mediocre or just any other MMO. But I know its going to be kick ass. I'm going to need to get a whole new machine to just play it.

[Gavin]

I've never been a fan of MMORPGs, but this really interests me. Star Wars is a huge passion of mine, and I'm eager to learn more about this era in the Star Wars Universe.

Non-Jedi FTW. I'm hoping that the classes allow a great deal of customization in terms of races and abilities.

-Shy

One of the major selling points to this game, at least to a huge SW lore nerd like me is that actually it's pretty much a blank canvas for Bioware to work with, I expect to see some references to what happened in KOTOR, and Tales of the Jedi/Sith but all that stuff is three or four hundred years in the past now.

Also bah at you not wanting to play a Jedi.

yeah, I have never picked up an mmorpg before so i didn't consider myself the most eligible candidate, but hopefully i will snag a spot in the beta eventually... i certainly signed up early enough.

The one thing I would say CaNz is that a beta shouldn't be treated as just "Yippee, I get to play the game ages before anyone else", you have to look for bugs, weigh up how abilities work and whether they need to be buffed/nerfed and then write fairly detailed reports on it. Obviously yeah there is the "Yippee" part but at the end of the day you're trying to make things better for other player when the game does come out.

After the ridiculous amount of money that was invested in this (Already over 100 million for sure), it would be sad for it to be mediocre or just any other MMO. But I know its going to be kick ass. I'm going to need to get a whole new machine to just play it.

Certainly the financial investment in SWTOR is going to give Bioware/EA great incentive to make the game as successful as possible, but as a WAR player I've already heard many sighs of "It's just a PvE game" uttered. On getting a new rig to play it, I doubt that unless you've got a really old (like 4 years) computer you should be able to handle it. The whole reason Bioware are using their "stylised realism" is so that they can allow as many players to get into the game without requiring the latest Alienware PC.

[Blue]

I'm running a two year old iMac with dual boot. I don't want to start an apple rant but the hardware in it is terrible. And a game like this, I want to run it on the highest possible settings.

[Gavin]

Ahh. I do know what you're saying though, I expect despite Bioware's intent to avail TOR to the largest possible market a lot of their fans are going to upgrade/replace their rigs to run it at max graphics. I'll probably succumb to the temptation myself.

[Gavin]

*Necro-bump*

Seeing as BioWare released guild sign ups this week I figured I'd resurrect this thread in case anyone would be interested in joining. Hopefully PAX-East will shed some major light as we're hopefully quite close to release (less than six months at the outset). Anyone interested feel free to throw up an application here.

Originally I was going to call the guild Novus Concordia as a nod to OB's old Maverick Hunters RPG series but sadly it violates naming policy because TCW has introduced the planet Concordia in the last year.

[Edit] Forgot to say we're a multifaction guild so if you want to play Empire don't worry about it.

Edited by Gavin, 10 March 2011 - 07:48 PM.

[Gavin]

*joins guild* So... Can we play the game yet? 8D

I'm Frownie by the way because Boo was taken. Poo.

EDIT: ... Wait. Why is this guild anti-Sith? wtf. :(

Sorry, my bad Boo, I have the Empire "half" of the guild under a different username. Here. If we want to get both guilds in-game for launch I need 4 preorders for each, should be doable given we're hoping to have maybe ten, twelve players for launch and recruit more as we're going along. Even if you don't know much about Star Wars you're more than welcome, all we really want are fun and active players.

Edited by Gavin, 10 March 2011 - 07:55 PM.

[Pumpkin]

[Edit] Forgot to say we're a multifaction guild so if you want to play Empire don't worry about it.

Umm...yeah I hope so! How else am I going to be a sith secret agent. Thats my goal <3 I'm always the bad girl. It's just how I roll.