Star Wars: The Old Republic Releasing Sometime Before, Uh, March 31, 2012

I can wait CAUSE I GOTS BF3!!!!

Why the hell did Bioware announce this game two years ago?

If they had announced TOR at E3 this year, with a release date of 2012, to quote Chris Grant, my boner would have snapped off.

2012 is too far off really.  If they don't roll it out before the end of the year they will lose their audience to WoW returners, freemos and Rift/LOTRO hardcores.  Less press noise, more speed to the release Bioware.

They're doing exactly what Blizzard always does:  Ignoring requests for release dates so they can just work on their own time.

OMG! I can not wait for this game. I'm hoping and crossing my fingers that this will be the first MMO to actually pull me in. 

" 2012 is too far off really.  If they don't roll it out before the end of the year they will lose their audience to WoW returners, freemos and Rift/LOTRO hardcores.  Less press noise, more speed to the release Bioware. "

" This still isnt KotOR... "

Sucks,.   But honestly, I don't want them releasing it if it isn't done.

 We currently have over one million double-opt-in beta testers...

I'm fine with this continuing to get delayed....I will have no life when it comes out -_-

funny thing is, in a years time maybe even this year blizzard is proberbly gonna announce the new mmo they've been working on for the last couple of years now, which is gonna be WoW2. Tor will likely not be the WoW killer but WoW 2 will. And if they dont get Tor out the door before blizzard announces WoW 2, Ea is gonna take a serious hit on sales.

Why is that Jedi wearing Master Chiefs armour?

" Why is that Jedi wearing Master Chiefs armour? "

That's fine. My "MMORPG" for this year will be Skyrim. I'm buying a new rig for it anyways, so it'll be primed when TOR drops.

Any chance of this bombing after release, like most other MMOs? (and more importantly - what would it mean for MMO-land if it does)

 I just wonder how they can recoup the £100,000,000 + they have spent developing it.

" Any chance of this bombing after release, like most other MMOs? (and more importantly - what would it mean for MMO-land if it does) I just wonder how they can recoup the £100,000,000 + they have spent developing it. "

Exactly, no other western MMO (except WoW) has been able to retain 500k subscribers - month in, month out.

SWOTR will be the first to successfully accomplish this, but they'll need more to recoup from launch and on-going development costs.

My guess is it will launch in September this year along with the blu-ray release of the "origional" movies and the  prequels. 

" @dagas:  You could play it like that, except its story is probably going to be watered down crap like any other MMO. "

" "  Star Wars: The Old Republic, easily the highest-profile competitor to World of Warcraft sinceBlizzard assumed genre dominance" yea sure, nothing will take wow down, it's pretty impossible IMO. "

" @WrathOfBanja said:

" @dagas:  You could play it like that, except its story is probably going to be watered down crap like any other MMO. "

did you forget... BIOWARE is doing this game.  The story will far and away be the single best thing about this game. "

" @sephirm87 said:

" @WrathOfBanja said:

" @dagas:  You could play it like that, except its story is probably going to be watered down crap like any other MMO. "

did you forget... BIOWARE is doing this game.  The story will far and away be the single best thing about this game. "

You mean the people that made that one game where you wandered around collecting party members for five hours and then fought a giant terminator? "

 "We currently have over one million double-opt-in beta testers for the world’s first story-driven, fully 
voiced MMO," said EA Games president Frank Gibeau. "Everyone is waiting for us to announce the ship date… Sorry, but that’s not going to happen today. We’re holding the date for two reasons--first, we don't want to tip off the competition; second, we want more data from the beta test to guarantee a spectacular experience at launch."

I hope the "fully voiced MMO" wont be as generic as this bs.

I work at the company that is building the servers that TOR is being housed on. I built one of them yesterday. This game must be close to coming out soon. They must be just about done if they are setting up the Physical network it will reside in. I am very excited.

@Leeroi:Has your company set up game servers in the past, would you know around how long it would be from when the servers are installed to when the game is released? It has to be soon right or they're paying for the server space and not making any money?

@Ethan_Raiden: I have never before seen any game servers come through, but there are only two companies that make rack mounted cabinet servers in the US that I know of so I imagine they probably had a few MMO clients in the past.  Beyond that I have no information to give. All I know is we built another 6 of those guys last shift, and I expect to see more when I get to work tonight.  I really really really hope this means that they will be starting up soon, but who knows how long that will take.