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Star Wars: The Old Republic: 2011 Release Date Confirmed; Hands-on Testing This Year!
MikeB
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Manager Sean "Ashen Temper" Dahlberg has now confirmed the 2011 release date we reported on yesterday in an announcement made to the official Star Wars: The Old Republic forums. With the genie essentially out of the bottle due to yet another slip by EA's CEO John Riccitiello this comes as no surprise to us.
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Additionally, Sean mentions that while the game will be launching in 2011, that this year will still see some significant developments fans of the game can look forward to, including the first hands-on testing of the game!
View the full announcement here.
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IMO this is good because gives them time to develop the game to an awesome standard, sucks that have to wait that long though =[
It's nice to see they're taking their time on this one.
I'm not here to complete my forum PVP dailies.
damn, so another boring MMO year!:(
This is good, they didn't win Most Anticipated MMO of 2010, now they have a shot at it for 2011!
Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty
Great news maybe this time we will get a finished mmo
"you are like the world revenge on sarcasm, you know that?"
One of those great lines from The Secret World
guess I will be spending my 50 bucks this year on cata and not SWTOR
Played: WoW, CoX, SWG, Eve Online, DCUO, Rift
Playing: SW:TOR
Best decision made by an MMO company to date. I think we can all agree we have been waiting for an MMO to delay a launch further to finally get a product out the door with some serious polish. This is definitely a smart move by BW/LA.
That's just crazy talk.
-Tinfoil Hat alert-
Seems to me these "slip ups" work mysteriously in EA's favor. Why let LA, or Bioware beat them to the big juicy announcements?
This is EA's game in other words, and they're making that clear.
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(Edit)- BTW, any word or clarification on whether or not this is strictly 2011 or within the 2011 fiscal? Which could be anytime between spring and next spring.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
im rather neutral on this , and wont get exited nor disapointed about this release date.
It could be that they found some sort of serious issues with the game and had to postpone, could be its the planned timeline and the early announcement was just to put heat up the hype level ...or they realy learned something from other IP's and wanna fire up a game as stable as possible. Guess well know once its out
wondering how linear/instanced it will be since they put a lot of time in it
World of Warcraft is a proof that MMORPG quality should affect schedule/budget and not the other way around.
Well I hope I can get in on the testing. I want to make sure we finally get a polished game.
My time in LOTRO has come to an end, and I am looking forward to this.
Good, does this mean they'll be spending the extra time making the game a MMORPG? Sorry, but EA is going to need to do more than wave some light sabers and cinematics in front of my face to get me to pay monthly for a co-op RPG that oversaturates the game with the IP to the point of almost making it comical. This game can wait until 2015 for all I care, because if it stays the course, I sure as hell am not going to pay for it either way.
Bans a perma, but so are sigs in necro posts.
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Guild wars 2, FFXIV (forgot which number it is), STO, Global Agenda.
compared to:
Darkfall, CO, various F2P games
to me 2010 seems a whole lot better than 2009.
Anyway a 2011 release date is a smart move. Unless that trailer had ingame footage then i highly doubted this game was to be released this year. No doubt some will now start to compare this game to the 40k MMO (aparently comming out in 2011 or 2012).
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
Guild wars 2, FFXIV (forgot which number it is), STO, Global Agenda.
compared to:
Darkfall, CO, various F2P games
to me 2010 seems a whole lot better than 2009.
Anyway a 2011 release date is a smart move. Unless that trailer had ingame footage then i highly doubted this game was to be released this year. No doubt some will now start to compare this game to the 40k MMO (aparently comming out in 2011 or 2012).
Guild Wars 2 is not coming out this year (barring any surprise announcements). So far what we are guaranteed to see is Star Trek Online and Global Agenda. Final Fantasy XIV may indeed make it out this year, but I am generally wary about accepting first-release dates for AAA MMOG's. They often experience at least one delay, if not more. We'll see what happens!
They shall take as much time as they need.
Not like another developer who rushes a major IP to make some quick bucks.
Maybe Bioware can get rid of the claymation characters in the beta. I would be a happy camper.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhh.
Why? why?
No hope for this year
You'll all forgotten 2 very important points:
1. It still might be a half-developed, buggy mess if & when they release it in 2011 (they might not even have workable game code this year lol!)
2. It may compete against the likes of D3 & SC2 in 2011 - very bad release strategy if so
They say that right before you die, your life flashes before your eyes. That's true, even for a blind man. ^DareDevil^
your no2 is a given.
Every game that has ever released has had to deal with other games coming out at/around the same time. Due to the traditional release times (pre Christmas - Nov/Dec, Post Christmas Feb/march, Midyear July/sep) most games tend to get clumped together with at least 1 other game similar to it. You could say 2010 is a bad time to release too because of a whole host of games coming out.
The point is saying that a game should not release in X year or Y month because Z game is coming out is pointless.
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
I think you're underestimating the behemoth that is Blizzard. That's not to say that I'm a fan or like their games in any way, but it is what it is. 2, possibly 3, major releases by the #1 game development studio out there at around the same time as anyone else's games go to market? Not a good idea by anyone's standards, even Bioware's. Other games/studios are neither here nor there, as they can't complete in the sqame league. It is entirely on point actually. They practically destroyed several other mmos with WoW alone over the first couple years, so I think it's a case of 'ignore at your own peril' Bioware.
Anyway, as much of a SW fan as I am, I've equally become a Bioware anti-fan since NWN probably, & have no love lost for Blizzard either, so could care less. I may try Sw:ToR when it launches, I may not (I didn't even try SWG until last year). So, I have no vested interest in saying what I did, but I think it's clearly a very relevant marketing point which I'm sure Bioware will take into consideration.
They say that right before you die, your life flashes before your eyes. That's true, even for a blind man. ^DareDevil^
They moved it to 2011 so they can copy WoW even more haha.
Played:
From Earth & Beyond, Anarchy Online, Matrix Online, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, Age of Conan, Tabula Rasa (Beta), EvE Online, City of Villians, Atlantica Online, Guild Wars, Lineage 2, Pirates of the Burning Sea, PlanetSide, RF Online, Second Life, Fallen Earth.
It is with great sadness and greater fear for my personal well being that I must appear as the glass half empty voice in this discussion.
That's too long. From the initial anouncement to realease they are pushing the three year golden rule for hype. If released in Q1 2011 they have pushed past a five year development cycle.
lest just get that in it's own line.
A SIX YEAR DEVELOPMENT CYCLE.
Investors are going to expect this game to buy them small countries on release day.
If the hype machine has toped out already (and in my opinion it has) then the game will release to an audience that is so burned out waiting for it they just dont care anymore (Duke Nukem). If the hype machine has yet to crescendo, then customers will expect a rainbow birthday party hand job in every box.
They are going to have to kill the hype. No press releases, updates, comic books, vids, blah blah blah, and save it all up for one month before release. In my mind that is about the only way to salvage the situation. Let us forget about it now so we give two craps when it matters.
I personally was so hung up on this game when I first heard about it I was expecting Jesus Christ himself to deliver my pre-ordered box to me along with informing me he was going to be ruling the world for the next thousand years, and I was free to chill and play some SW:TOR with him till he was done.
At this point, i'm reaching the point of ... "Meh".
Sanity is a delusion. The only truth is madness.
I think this is an interesting point, and I can see how you could feel like that. In some sense you're correct... pretty soon we may go through a dry patch here or there, however... I'd like to point out that BioWare has been pretty tight lipped about what will be in the game, and exactly how everything will work.
That being said, I think theres a great deal of information they can still trickle in that the fanbase will be interested to see. On another matter, I don't think we've reached the height of SWTORs hype capability. I think once beta kicks in high gear and the release date is rearing its head we'll see a great deal of hype being generated.
All that aside I do think that out of some of the ridiculous comments made in this thread, this one is actually a very valid point.