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I'm confuzzled.

I browsed around on the internet looking for any info on the upcoming KOTOR Mmo, one site I found was this

http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/19/biowares-upcoming-mmo-based-in-kotor-universe/

I know they state that it's rumours but isn't it weird that we should expect the game so soon ? I mean, have they (Bioware) worked on this for a long time ? And if so, why havn't anyone heard of it :O ?

Because if they are just starting to develop this game, I hardly think we can expect so early as 2009, more like 2010-2011.

Anyone who wants to shed some light ?

Ps. Sorry if anyone have brought this up already, in a hurry, so I don't have time to search for it atm.

A reporter asked John Riccitiello from EA during E3 what games were being developed.

"We’ve got two of the most compelling MMOs in the industry in development."

The first one is WAR of course.

Then he said:

“And the one that people are dying for us to talk to them about — in partnership with Lucas, coming out of BioWare, which is, I think, quite possibly the most anticipated game for the industry at the point when we get closer to telling you about it.”

Ok so the reporter asked if it was KOTOR online and he said yes.

Anyway, afaik that's all anyone except Bioware knows and the EA reporter maybe said something that he shouldn't have.

The game will come out in 2009 unless it gets pushed back abit like most MMO's do for fine tuning and polishing. But they have been working on this game for some time now they just have done a very good job of keepping a lid on it is all.  :)

I think it's just a comment on the sad state of MMORPGs.

The games that set the standard, UO, EQ, AC have aged to the point we don't want to play them. Very few of the new releases are worth playing, and some have been just terrible, like Auto Assault, Matrix, etc.

That leaves you with playing the current behemoth, WoW, and if you're just not into WoW, you're kind of out of luck.

LoTRo is ok, if you like quest grinding, and Vanguard is supposedly getting better. The latest release that was supposed to be awesome, AoC, turned out like I thought  it would, just a button mashing graphically pretty mess.

That leaves people just salivating for something decent to release, and the current craze is KOTOR, mostly because we don't know anything about it, so everyone imagines it's going to be the game they want to play. And most likely it will release, and turn out not to be the game most people want to play (it can't be everything to everyone) and then we'll speculate on the next title to release.

I hope WAR will have a good release, but certainly that's not going to appeal to everyone, because it's RvR and not everyone is looking for an RvR game. Also, we don't even know if the RvR gameplay is going to be really good yet.

There is no reason to believe this game will be launching in 2009, i am guessing earlier to second quarter 2010. Bioware doesnt announce games unless they are close to finshed,

Late 2010 or early 2011 at the earliest.

Originally posted by protoroc

Late 2010 or early 2011 at the earliest.

Finally a realistic estimate lol. 

Originally posted by gillvane1

I think it's just a comment on the sad state of MMORPGs.

The games that set the standard, UO, EQ, AC have aged to the point we don't want to play them. Very few of the new releases are worth playing, and some have been just terrible, like Auto Assault, Matrix, etc.

That leaves you with playing the current behemoth, WoW, and if you're just not into WoW, you're kind of out of luck.

LoTRo is ok, if you like quest grinding, and Vanguard is supposedly getting better. The latest release that was supposed to be awesome, AoC, turned out like I thought  it would, just a button mashing graphically pretty mess.

That leaves people just salivating for something decent to release, and the current craze is KOTOR, mostly because we don't know anything about it, so everyone imagines it's going to be the game they want to play. And most likely it will release, and turn out not to be the game most people want to play (it can't be everything to everyone) and then we'll speculate on the next title to release.

 

I hope WAR will have a good release, but certainly that's not going to appeal to everyone, because it's RvR and not everyone is looking for an RvR game. Also, we don't even know if the RvR gameplay is going to be really good yet.

you really know how to bring a guy down don't you

It is depressing Bioware has yet to officially announce KOTR with trailers and such. I'm on my way to preorder games tonight/tomorrow and sadly none of them will be MMOs. Maybe I will preorder WAR. I know it will be good. But I'm not really into that type of game, sadly

Originally posted by Airspell

Originally posted by protoroc

Late 2010 or early 2011 at the earliest.

Finally a realistic estimate lol. 

Actually I read somewhere that that's actually accurate. They haven't even announced it officially yet, at least Bioware hasn't.

2011, I say. Maybe 2012.