What do you think of BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic announcement?

[BuckGB]

Just in case you haven't heard, you can find the announcement here. Let your opinion be known!

[Lady Dragonfly]

Abomination, period.

[Siberys]

Same here. Abomination.

[Claudius]

I said 'I'll wait and see'

I'm really neither into star wars or MMO so I guess I am not dissapointed. Sounds like a good idea to have a good story in an MMO but I really don't have too much confidence in playing MMO because I think the players would have a different attitude than me towards gaming.

[Drunkside]

Abomination... is a too fancy word for it, its alot worse than just abomination. Stupid idiot mmo´s...

[Xandax]

To early to see. Depends a lot on what they do with it.

[superbob263]

Ok my hopes and dreams of having KoToR III achivments on my Xbox360 gamerscore list are now dead.
And anyways KoToR is not supposed to be an MMORPG and do we really need another one anyways didnt star wars galaxies tank and get boring because somehow everyone in the starwars universe got this virus that made them a jedi...

[dragon wench]

I think what we are seeing here in Bioware's decision to make KOTOR 3 an MMO is the widespread perception that PC Gaming, save MMOs, has an increasingly pessimistic future..
Also, we can't forget they are now owned by EA, nor can we forget that Dragon Age will be ported to consoles...
Coincidence? I think not.

I love the way gaming companies and other commentators obsessively discuss the decline of PC gaming.. Sorry, so who was it that initiated the move to consoles and MMOs in the first place? Who was it that decided to opt for fluff over substance, despite the huge success of games like BG2?
Anybody else recall the disappointment that was NWN 1?

Maybe Bioware is still better than most in terms of producing a story-focused RPG, but I don't trust them in the slightest.

[Kaer]

Abomination.

I lived when they went from Warcraft III: FT to WoW, but given that one of the things I liked about the KotOR series was the first person story aspect of the party member bits and most of the other RPG aspects you don't get in an MMO, I think this is a mistake.

At least tie up the storyline with an RPG before leaping into the miasma that is the MMO market.

[lum1n]

abomination. I'm very disappointed. And after that I hate LucasArts... money-eaters.

[Sweethart Rose]

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Originally Posted by Xandax To early to see. Depends a lot on what they do with it.

I agree with you.

FYI: I recieve GameSpot Daily Newsletter and the release ( project) date is 10-31-2011.

[Solcius]

honestly i am pretty sure this game is NOT a kotor.... Its just in a similar era. I heard theres still going to be a KOTOR 3 but not in the near future. This game, Though, is in no way related to the kotor games. I bet it wont even metion Revan

[Xandax]

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Originally Posted by Solcius honestly i am pretty sure this game is NOT a kotor.... Its just in a similar era. I heard theres still going to be a KOTOR 3 but not in the near future. This game, Though, is in no way related to the kotor games. I bet it wont even metion Revan

Well - according to the FAQ on the site; it does relate to KOTOR.

Also from an earlier post by Buck:

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Originally Posted by BuckGB If you listen to the GameSpot interview, LucasArts' Tom Nichols states that this game will be Star Wars: KotOR III, IV, V, VI, etc. Based on his comments, it sounds like we'll never see another single player KotOR.

It does seem like it'll be the follow-up as well.

[Redswirl]

If Lucas Arts were devloping it I wouldn't even look twice at it,but seeing as Bioware is making the game I will wait and see how it turns out before writing it off.

[DataJedi]

I would rather wait and see what comes of it. I'm not excited nor too patient. However, at first I thought a Star Wars MMO would suck, especially when killing the KOTOR series. But as I've said; better just wait and see what comes o' it.