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I agree with Star Wars: The Old Republic crowd. Th is announcement was by far the biggest news of the year, hands down.  I haven't been this excited about a game since I first heard Star Wars Galaxies was being make years ago.

Yes I'm a Star Wars fan, but its also the new approach they are taking the game. I just love the whole idea of being story-driven and choice-driven. For better or worse you have to live with you actions with no save button.

Plus the companions sound cool too, thats one thing I liked in Guild Wars as well. Although I didn't like Guild Wars that much anyway, companions and the free to play business model is the only things Guild War ever got right. I hope Bioware and LucasArts goes the same way with The Old Republic. I wouldn't mind paying for a new exspanion every year or so, if normal every day game play is free.

Originally posted by Postal13

What about Diablo 3???

Not an MMO.

What about Darkfall beta?

Originally posted by SignusM

Originally posted by Postal13

What about Diablo 3???

Not an MMO.

 

 

 

What about Darkfall beta?

Seeing as Darkfall beta has been promised on and off for years, its hardly news

Originally posted by Mysk

This is the way that I see things:

1. SW:TOR Announcement
2. Blizzard / Activision Merger
3. STO Re-Announcement

The change of leadership at AoC and the closure of TR were what I think of as "house keeping" headlines.  Things that happened that needed to be done.  There was also Richard Garriot jumping ship shortly before the closure.

The cutting of content from WAR, well.. some things never change.  Cutting content from release is standard.  Sucks, but it's standard.

In the end, I see a MMO release by Bioware as the news that directly affects the MMORPG genre the most, especially with the (dare I say almost delicious) drama yet to unfold as we see its inevitable affect on SWG.

My thoughts as well.  I think that SW:ToR will be a big disappointment, but it is obviously a major story.  It may not have been a surprise, but it is important.

The biggest news and mystery is "Tabula Rasa is closing yet SOE's vacant and pure crap game SWG still continues on".

That is like solving the Bermuda Triangle mystery, will never happen.

Let's see:

Tabula Rasa Closure   //dead, doesn't matter
Age of Conan Directorial Change   //old news, no big deal
Star Trek Online Re-Announcement   //not great to have a reannouncement. Small story.
WAR Ditches Cities and Careers  //old news, game is hanging on
 

We are left with: Activision / Blizzard Merger   OR Bioware Announces The Old Republic

Activision / Blizzard Merger is certainly worthy of big news.  It is very telling for the future of the industry (ie growth).  But since this is a gamers site and this is a reader's choice mergers don't feel right.

Clear Winner: Bioware Announces The Old Republic!!!  The real beauty is that without more detail information, we can let our imaginations run away with possibilities.  Therefore, in my mind, this is got to be the most amazing thing going on!

Age of Conan Directorial Change.

TOR, etc. is news for 2010-2011.

TR closure does it for me.

 STO  made me way more excited than anything else listed....Star Wars is great and all...but its still controlled by Lucas so I don't expect to much out of it...Surely nothing as good as the SWG PreCU was.  

I guess for me it was Blizzard +Activision.

Here we have the most successful money making game in MMO's WOW and there owners[Blizzard/Vivendi] decide to share the wealth?this made zero sense to me.WHY?Would a company having success take on a partner?does this show they lack confidence in themselves and feel a total Blizzard melt down was coming soon?

On the other hand we have a fairly decent long standing successful company in there own rights [Activision]why do they all of a sudden want to merge with a proven failure when comes to finances in VIVENDI.They own some kind of record for most money ever lost in there stock market or something like that,fact is they handle money poorly and OVER spend foolishly.The only real success coming out of  Vivendi's camp was WOW,until then they had a bunch of freebie kids hanging out on there battle.net.

Does Activision actually forsee Vivendi/Blizzard as making something of the future or are they just riding the coat tails of WOW?it really baffles me from both sides.