Everything you have heard about a new Star Wars MMORPG is all speculation and rumours. Here's my take on it:
It is my belief that they are working on one. In the press release on the Bioware site (I think), it is mentioned that they were working on an un-named sci-fi MMORPG. I had originally thought that it would have been based on the Mass Effect universe. But after hearing that they were going to make the game into a trilogy, I figured that releasing a Mass Effect MMORPG would be a bad decision; considering most players will get their fill of the franchise with a trilogy of games. So I'm back to thinking that they are working on a Star Wars MMORPG based on the Extended Universe, (my belief of this because Bioware would probably feel they had more creative freedom there, which is what they are known for). Do I think it will be a "KOTOR" MMO? No, I don't. Lucasarts has already said they intend to continue with their KOTOR line of games. I personally don't think Bioware would make a KOTOR MMORPG, simply because they have "been there, done that". Bioware is a company that pushes the RPG genre foward with each game they release; and they are always looking for new ways to do that. So that's my two cents.
Are there real informations about a new SW MMO out there? At the moment i know only about some rumors and some blogs, from users that maybe know more, about a new MMO. Ther are some people out there saying the Bioware is developing an MMO in the KOTOR setting but others are saying the Biowares MMO is not placed in the SW world but that an other not named studio is developing an new SW MMO that will start with the TV series at 2009. But this are no real infos only rumors. The video that was postet her is an video from the TV Series starting around the end of 2009.
Sorry for my bad english and best regards.
The video posted here was a trailer from the CGI-animated movie that will be released in theaters in August of this year (as it says IN the video). The live action TV series (starring live actors and set between Episodes 3 and 4) starts sometime in 2009.
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Everything you have heard about a new Star Wars MMORPG is all speculation and rumours. Here's my take on it:
It is my belief that they are working on one. In the press release on the Bioware site (I think), it is mentioned that they were working on an un-named sci-fi MMORPG. I had originally thought that it would have been based on the Mass Effect universe. But after hearing that they were going to make the game into a trilogy, I figured that releasing a Mass Effect MMORPG would be a bad decision; considering most players will get their fill of the franchise with a trilogy of games. So I'm back to thinking that they are working on a Star Wars MMORPG based on the Extended Universe, (my belief of this because Bioware would probably feel they had more creative freedom there, which is what they are known for). Do I think it will be a "KOTOR" MMO? No, I don't. Lucasarts has already said they intend to continue with their KOTOR line of games. I personally don't think Bioware would make a KOTOR MMORPG, simply because they have "been there, done that". Bioware is a company that pushes the RPG genre foward with each game they release; and they are always looking for new ways to do that. So that's my two cents.
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