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Anonymous Source  Posts: 6 Joined: 26 May 2008   | Star Wars Galaxies probably would have lived up to it's expectations and made a huge impact if Sony hadn't gone and screwed it up, pissing off it's subscribers and destroying it's sales. It's a shame because it had great potential. O_O |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3896 Joined: 4 May 2008     | I'll get it. KOTOR ruled, and I hope the MMO can live up to the expectations. |
Paperboy  Posts: 50 Joined: 3 Mar 2008   | That article certainly ended on a objective note... |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 617 Joined: 13 Jul 2006    |
That was close. I thought you were going to mention Raph Koster there. You don't want to get him started on the Star Wars Galaxies disaster because we'll never hear the end of how he doesn't want to talk about it. ;-)
Amen, brother. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 63 Joined: 20 Mar 2008    | Noooo EA's got my favorite franchise ! Who knows how they're gonna mess it up now ??? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 213 Joined: 29 May 2008    | a note you have to see here is that every series made MMO has completly ended everything, take Lord Of The Rings Online as an example, LOTRO was a good idea but the storyline took no turn Then came the bigger and badder Age of Conan and with about half the population of the world playing warcraft, LOTRO has no future and my Fiffty says that KOTOR will end out the same way |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1256 Joined: 13 Jan 2007  |
Remember that some game mechanics of the KOTOR series can't be reproduced for a multiplayer game. You cannot pause all other players around the world. Although the worlds from KOTOR didn't distract much from that officious rule, they had details which made them stick out. Geonosis, on the other hand, was like Tatooine but with more red. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2904 Joined: 12 May 2008   | It's still going to be DnD Based, which Kotor was. And I hope they don't make a WOW Clone with star wars skin |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 642 Joined: 6 Mar 2008     | EA nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! It better have the same combat mechanics or else I WILL KILL THE TEAM WHO MADE THE GAME..... |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 606 Joined: 24 Sep 2008   | Yeah, because if there's anything the KOTOR universe needs right now, its millions of juveniile jedi speaking lolspeak 24/7. What a great idea EA. Just another reason for me to never buy another game from you as long as I live. |
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Wordsmith Extraordinaire  Posts: 10318 Joined: 28 Nov 2007   |
Man, people like you really give me hope for the future of the gaming crowd. At least wait until you have actually played the game to bash it. You never know, this could be a hell of a game. Not very likely a WoW-killer, but still a good game in its own right. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 554 Joined: 8 Aug 2008    | Why do companies always take really good gaming series, and turn them into MMO's when RPG single player style were just fine? I mean, WoW worked, because it had a LOT of backstory, a LOT of lore. What does KoToR have for lore? 2 games + a few guys from KoToR being mentioned in a book? Not much to make a game off of IMHO. |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire Posts: 10318 Joined: 28 Nov 2007 | Warcraft had three games. Your point? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2168 Joined: 14 Nov 2007   | I'd much rather see KOTOR 3. I'm not an MMO fan, and I want to find out what happened to Revan and the Exile, dammit! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1540 Joined: 6 Apr 2008    |
The both went off to have successful careers as high-level raidbosses/Questgivers repectively. _-_ |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 575 Joined: 21 Jun 2008  |
The ultimate insult to them. I loved KOTOR, the sequel as well (not as much, but it was good). I honestly think they should of just made a third Knights of the Old Republic game, and not some MMO. Think of all the great stories we will never experiance from another KOTOR game when this comes online, but don't worry Bumpkin1337 will be a great replacement for Carth. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 632 Joined: 18 Jun 2008  | gotta say i wish they would just make KOTOR 3, continuing play as either the exile or revan would be brilliant, that or meeting the two of them, besides that i cant stan mumorpagers |
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Riccitiello Confirms KOTOR MMOG
Electronic Arts boss John Riccitiello has confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in the industry: A Knights of the Old Republic MMOG is on the way.
Riccitiello spoke about EA's MMOG amibitions with Portfolio.com at E3 this week, claiming his company had an interest in World of Warcraft prior to Activision's merger with Vivendi. It didn't work out, he claimed, "Because [Vivendi] couldn't afford control of EA, and I wasn't giving it up."
Instead, EA will make its move into the MMOG market via BioWare, which it acquired in October 2007. BioWare announced a deal with LucasArts in the same month to develop an "interactive entertainment product," leading to widespread speculation that a KOTOR-based MMOG was in the works.
Speaking about the upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning from Mythic as well as the new project, Riccitiello said, "We've got two of the most compelling MMOs in the industry in development. And the one that people are dying for us to talk to them about - in partnership with LucasArts, coming out of BioWare, which is, I think quite possibly the most anticipated game, full stop, for the industry, at the point where we get closer to telling you about it." Asked directly whether he was referring to a KOTOR MMOG, he said, "Yes."
Even though no release target has been announced, it will be interesting to see how this affects Star Wars Galaxies, the original Star Wars-based MMOG developed by Sony and released in 2003. Despite the popularity of the Star Wars franchise, Star Wars Galaxies never lived up to expectations, suffering from soft subscription numbers that have reportedly been in decline for the past few years. Knights of the Old Republic, originally launched in 2003 as a stand-alone RPG, maintains virtually all elements of the Star Wars universe but is set 4000 years prior to the events detailed in the movies, thereby allowing the creators to bypass the George Lucas' increasingly crappy, juvenile stories.
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