General Discussion

Originally posted by Locklain

Originally posted by BioNut

EA is changing a lot as a company it seems. With allowing mythic to change their name back and taking a less active roll in what Id and BioWare will do I think we are seeing them become a true publisher.  Besides BioWares old CEO is now running EA (I think) so they probably have more freedom than any other developer under EA.

Also I have heard that the BioWare MMO has a 100 million dollar budget .

It would have to.  How much do you think it would cost just to license the Start Wars name?

Dunno but that includes BioWare's, Lucas Arts' and EA's money.

I can't decide how to feel about this news. I am excited because I LOVE star wars, I loved KotAR, and Bioware makes good games. I'm uneasy because I think Bioware will be aiming at the WoW market, and alas make a spoon fed linear game, which isn't the sand box I am looking for. And after reading the interview with the Bioware MMO devs from which they all said they were playing WoW, I fully expect a World of Star Wars.

The Devs at Bioware play a lot of different games.  I wouldn't get too negative at this point.

Originally posted by Abrahmm

I can't decide how to feel about this news. I am excited because I LOVE star wars, I loved KotAR, and Bioware makes good games. I'm uneasy because I think Bioware will be aiming at the WoW market, and alas make a spoon fed linear game, which isn't the sand box I am looking for. And after reading the interview with the Bioware MMO devs from which they all said they were playing WoW, I fully expect a World of Star Wars.

Lets face it, WoW is popular because of its play style.  Sandbox games are for a minority of gamers, most people need direction and if they don't have it they become lost.  I would love to see a great sandbox game but we will never see one from a big name company.

Originally posted by Abrahmm

I can't decide how to feel about this news. I am excited because I LOVE star wars, I loved KotAR, and Bioware makes good games. I'm uneasy because I think Bioware will be aiming at the WoW market, and alas make a spoon fed linear game, which isn't the sand box I am looking for. And after reading the interview with the Bioware MMO devs from which they all said they were playing WoW, I fully expect a World of Star Wars.

There's many differant areas a dev could be outlining and studying in playing a mmo, like WOW. Just because the Bio devs said they play WOW doesn't mean they are building their mmo to be just like it. They could of have been talking about how polished each aspect of WOW is want to carry that into their game.

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Originally posted by metalhead980
I just hope is a skill based system and not some hold me by the hand Class system that WoW uses.

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As opposed to what other games that don't use class system? hmm let me think, hmmm, it's on the tip of my tongue... oh right! Just about 99% of all OTHER games. Not to mention that class system was not just a "WoW" thing. Older games came out with classes before WoW ever did, so stop your WoW-bitchin because this all started with Everquest and almost every single other MMO after it WAY before WoW did.

Originally posted by BioNut

EA is changing a lot as a company it seems. With allowing mythic to change their name back and taking a less active roll in what Id and BioWare will do I think we are seeing them become a true publisher.  Besides BioWares old CEO is now running EA (I think) so they probably have more freedom than any other developer under EA.

Also I have heard that the BioWare MMO has a 100 million dollar budget .

I don't know about that ,something just seems a little bunk about who made this confirmation , Sounds like lack of self control on his part , or he felt it would be the talk of the day ,bringing even more overall hype to EA during the week of E3. I'd expect a little better from someone in his position TBH. I'd like to hear what Bioware has to say.

Originally posted by Locklain

Originally posted by Abrahmm

I can't decide how to feel about this news. I am excited because I LOVE star wars, I loved KotAR, and Bioware makes good games. I'm uneasy because I think Bioware will be aiming at the WoW market, and alas make a spoon fed linear game, which isn't the sand box I am looking for. And after reading the interview with the Bioware MMO devs from which they all said they were playing WoW, I fully expect a World of Star Wars.

Lets face it, WoW is popular because of its play style.  Sandbox games are for a minority of gamers, most people need direction and if they don't have it they become lost.  I would love to see a great sandbox game but we will never see one from a big name company.

Where do people get this EVE is a sandbox and it has plenty of quests and direction if players want it. Same with popular sandbox games in other genres like Elder Scrolls, GTA, etc. A sandbox game can have Quests you and I have different definitions of what a sandbox can be obviously

edit- And we see plenty of sandboxes made by big name companies (Halo 3 forge mode, GTA, Elder scrolls, Fallout 3, etc). They've just blown up bigtime in PC/console space I seriously doubt you have a crystal ball that tells you the future in anycase it must be cracked yo

woo thanks for link awesome. didn;t really doubt the rumours but exciting stuff all the same