Comments on: WoW is the target for The Old Republic, says LucasArts and EA

By: Glam

Glam — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:04:26 +0000

From my understanding after reading a while in the community area they really wish to challenge “World Of Warcraft”.
Are they really going to put up a fight? i am unsure, it does seem many people are excited about this game.

But as a SWG vet i am not happy about this at all.. (you can figure why..), oh well, keeping my fingers crossed for some company with the guts to go where SWG did, and not tail WoW.

By: damocles

damocles — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:37:08 +0000

Nostalgia for Starwars? Who has time for nostalgia when its shoved down our collectives throats every few years by Lucasarts?

I really don’t understand the fascination with SW any more. The new movies were terrible and the universe is old and tired at this point even when ‘reinvented’. I know millions disagree but I also know millions more are in agreement at this point.

Bioware have survived almost solely on the SW IP for nearly a decade now and to be honest they have been getting less and less inventive with each iteration. Mass Effect is just plain boring. This massive respect for them baffles me. I don’t understand why they are renowned as such a great developer when their ‘story driven’ aspects involve nothing more interesting than the ancient ‘select a response’ mechanism.

And before anyone labels me as a troll, I have several friends who work at Bioware, I know they are talented and I know the company is a great one to work for, but I still dont understand why they have such respect.

To be honest, the last game that came out of Bioware that I truly enjoyed was BG2. Most of the people that worked on that game are gone now.

EA cant possibly help the equation because they have just introduced the silly kind of attitude made evident in this article. ‘EA’s reputation is for wanting to win’?? Come on. So what if it is, it doesn’t mean shit unless you have the people to make it happen.

By: Centipede

Centipede — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:20:33 +0000

I really doubt they can make this true. I’ll cross my fingers for them…. Hopefully it will not be a WoW clone with Sci-Fi graphics.

By: Vahn16

Vahn16 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:16:26 +0000

I don’t know. Star Wars is pretty much the go-to sci-fi series, and, in terms of all time box office revenues, each film in the series is near the top ten. I think MMOTOR has a better shot than anyone else at dethroning WoW. EA’s money + BioWare’s skill + Star Wars license drenched in years of nostalgia = tons of potential.

Now if the game’s release collides head on with Blizzard’s “next-gen MMO,” things will be really interesting.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:10:49 +0000

Yeah, but the trouble is, they’ve instantly limited themselves to fans of Star Wars. Which is immediately a much smaller potential audience than ‘anyone who’s ever read, watched or played something a bit fantasy-ish’.

It’s nice for them to have lofty goals, but surely it would’ve been better to have some realistic targets to aim for first?

By: patlike

patlike — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:00:42 +0000

They believe it. No doubt. I think the story guy said in the panel that the game has more content than all other BioWare games ever made in total. They were using words like, “insane.”

By: Blerk

Blerk — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:24:10 +0000

Hahahahahahaha! Good luck with that.