Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | 11:41 GMT
BioWare MMO has been in planning for over 10 years
Star Wars: The Old Republic is ambitious, but maybe we don’t know just how much. Speaking in San Francisco last week, BioWare boss Ray Muzyka told VG247 that the Canadian firm had been planning an MMO for more than ten years.
“We’ve been thinking of making an MMO for probably over a decade,” he said. “At BioWare we tend to have long-term plans.”
Working to such long scales is necessary to keep the developer’s output at an “awesome” level, said Ray.
“We want to make sure that everything we do is awesome, really high quality,” he added.
“So what we did was assemble a great team, a mix of some of the best people from the MMO space and some of the best people from BioWare Edmonton who focused on BioWare RPGs, and put them together: that’s our Austin team.
“It’s really a fusion of the best of breed from both sides of the industry.”
Ray told us that BioWare has now staffed up to a roster of almost 500 employees, and that The Old Republic is a major deal for the company.
“This is an incredibly significant product for BioWare,” he said.
“I said in the presentation, ‘People ask us why we didn’t do KOTOR 3?’ For us this is KOTOR 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9: it’s that big in terms of the amount of content. It’s that ambitious in terms of the scale, and the interactions of the players with the world and the universe.”
Star Wars: The Old Republic was announced last week in California. No date’s on the game as yet.
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8 comments
#1
pjmaybe
29/10/08, 11:53 am
/stealth “this is why it looks shit” press release
#2
MesserWolf
29/10/08, 11:57 am
what a waste of time !
Let’s see if an mmorpg was what market wants.
#3
pjmaybe
29/10/08, 11:59 am
TBH if they paid any attention to what the public wanted, it wouldn’t have got out of the starting blocks. No one wanted SW Galaxies did they?
#4
RedPanda
29/10/08, 12:00 pm
Man, there’s a lot of hate in this thread
I’m looking forward seeing what Bioware can do with this – could be better than Lucas.
#5
pjmaybe
29/10/08, 12:04 pm
A turd with a torch shoved through it wielded like a lightsaber would be better than anything Lucasarts could come up with
#6
RedPanda
29/10/08, 12:22 pm
#7
David
29/10/08, 1:50 pm
I just hope this is good I’ve been wanting a good Star wars MMO since they destroyed star wars galaxies.
#8
endgame
29/10/08, 3:33 pm
this is going to be amazing! the best thing ever!