Star Wars: The Old Republic Will Actually Ship This Year

just wish MMO's were cheaper, i'm a poor scummy student god dammit!

That last part has me genuinely excited.

@GreenOcelot: Don't worry it will go f2p in 6 months.

@ucankurbaga said:

@GreenOcelot: Don't worry it will go f2p in 6 months.

I don't see it going fully F2P but i do believe at some point they will have a F2P option running along side the subs like what is happening with Star trek online, DC universe etc why they are not launching that way from the start i don't know it would be better for them in the long run if they did.

Totally read that headline as "Star Wars: The Old Republic Wii ships this year". Blew my mind for about three seconds.

@Xeirus said:

@Meowshi said:

@Xeirus said:

@CL60 said:

@blueduck said:

@CL60 said:

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@Meowshi said:

@Benny said:

Too bad for them that they started making this when WOW was at its peak, only to have interest in WOW begin to wane since cataclysm was released.

Quality aside, when guild wars is released; the subscription based model will be completely irrelevant to new games post-WOW, if it isn't already.

With a monthly fee, a developer can churn out patch content at any rate they like and still get money regardless, whereas with guild wars, the onus is on arenanet to get high-quality content out as fast as possible so people can pay them for it. In my opinion, a much better model.

Interest in WoW is dying because the game has been out for years, not because people are tired of the style of gameplay. They just want that style in a shiny new wrapper. What the mass market wants is basically WoW in a brand new setting. That's essentially what this game is offering.

You're insane if you don't think it will be successful.

GW2 is innovative and will most likely be a more engaging game, but it won't sell anywhere near as much as The Old Republic. Quality does not equal sales.

Is that why Rift did so well? It was Wow in a shiny new rapper.

Uhh, Rift is doing well.

Yeah for its budget its doing well but if you took the amount they spent to make TOR it wouldn't be looking so hot right now.

EA has stated they need 500k subs to do good enough, Rift was Trions first game, and it sold around 1.2 million and has a very solid playerbase and is growing. A bioware starwars game with the knights of the old republic name will do just fine..most of the MMO playerbase wants MMOs that play similarly to WoW.

"good enough" won't be enough, I hope the game is great I really do because I want to play it and enjoy it. But from the video they showed (I know, I know, it's not much) this game looks awful. It'll do very well at launch but I promise it will drop off or go f2p after a year. But who knows, to each hsi own.

The game looks like an MMO. People who are disappointed in it are either people who aren't fans of MMOs in general or people who expected something that differed from your standard MMO. Either way, your problem is with the genre, not the game, and it's you're own fault for building up expectations based on nothing. From day one the developers of this game have been honest about what it is.

"We are not re-innovating combat."

"Our game is all about gear."

"We respect the trinity system."

Only way you could have been confused is if you weren't listening.

People still think that a game needs to do WoW numbers to be successful? EA has already said they only need a million subscribers to break even. Even SWG managed to sell a million copies, and it was a steaming pile of shit. If you people want to ignore Bioware's name recognition, Star War's franchise appeal, and the massive amount of hype these games have; then be my guest. Just don't pretend like your predictions of dumb are based on any sort of logic.

I"m basing my opinion on the trailers they have shown, literally everything from this game that's been posted is pure recycled copy/paste battles from every MMO out there.

I think you need to calm down, you act as is you work for the damn company. It's an opinion, I have mine, you have... whatever yours is, I can't tell, just seems like you're trolling.

Fuck off. If you lack the mental capacity to handle a discussion with someone who disagrees with you, then you shouldn't be a part of this discussion. I'm not interested in having a discussion with some halfwit who is going to accuse me of trolling. Grow up, kid.

@wompa421 said:

@Meowshi said:

@wompa421 said:

I still don't know about this game if it wasn't an MMO I would definitely buy it but since it is one I'm going to wait till giant bomb does some coverage and a review on it to see if its worth me sinking a lot of time into it. The only MMO I've played was City of Villains and I played the shit out of it I did play WOW for a week and got bored hopefully this game is worth it because there are a lot of games coming out late in the year that I'm interested in.

That is an incredibly silly decision. Giant Bomb is not the place you go for MMO coverage or reviews. None of the main four even like MMOs, and they've already stated they have no interest in the game several times. If you're relying on this site to determine whether or not to buy an MMO, you might as well use it to determine which JRPGs and EA sports titles you want as well.

oh i didn't know everyone there said they had no interest in it i guess i'll have to go with gamerevolution.com and game informer and other places for the review.

Yeah, certain genres of games aren't well-represented on the site; mainly because there's only four guys!

@Drazat said:

This needs to be F2P

There are plenty of F2P MMOs out. This game is aiming for WoW's marketshare.

If it does go F2P, then I'll predict it will just be shut down shortly afterwards. It's too expensive for that.

this will keep me busy until D3

@MB said:

@Robosaur said:

Does anyone else think that it will start the day of or after Galaxies shuts down?

The first paragraph of the article says the launch of SW:TOR is five days after Galaxies shuts down...

Pretty sure he was referring to the early access.

UTINI !

Man, it really pisses me off when people say this game is going to be bad, first off it is a matter of opinion, sooo if you don't like MMO's then don't talk about the game and screw off. Second, this game is being made by Bioware, if you expect anything below a polished and fun game then you are crazy, plus its been in development for almost 6 years, if it is not polished then i have lost all faith in humanity. There is no need to hate on this game just to hate, and for the crazy people that think it will go F2P, if you want the most fully fleshed out, premium and polished experience then you gotta pay for it bub.

Man, it really pisses me off when people say this game is going to be bad, first off it is a matter of opinion, sooo if you don't like MMO's then don't talk about the game and screw off. Second, this game is being made by Bioware, if you expect anything below a polished and fun game then you are crazy, plus its been in development for almost 6 years, if it is not polished then i have lost all faith in humanity. There is no need to hate on this game just to hate, and for the crazy people that think it will go F2P, if you want the most fully fleshed out, premium and polished experience then you gotta pay for it bub.

Oh man, I love that quoted picture. Jeff you hilarious bastard XD

@Meowshi said:

Fuck off.

Real mature "kid". People these days, with no common sense. Talk like this to someone in person and see how well that goes, "kid".

I have high hopes for this MMO. Ignoring endgame content, I want to believe that each character class has a leveling experience that mimics its own entire KOTOR game. I'll gladly spend the enormous $150 CE asking price if I'm getting hundreds of hours of top-notch BioWare quality gameplay.

That said, I'm crossing my fingers I get a beta invite. $150 is obviously a huge amount of money to spend on a game, and BioWare wouldn't be the first studio to make a crap MMO. The previews they've had of the game don't do them favors.

While I reckon this will easily be the best MMO since vanilla WoW, I think they teased the game far too early, and its unlikely I'll ever invest in a subscription model again.

@Xeirus said:

@Meowshi said:

Fuck off.

Real mature "kid". People these days, with no common sense. Talk like this to someone in person and see how well that goes, "kid".

Like I said, I'm done with you. If you want to have a conversation with someone, don't start it off with accusing them of trolling. Once again, kindly fuck off.

I'm optimistic about this game. Or rather, I really want to see it do well, for both BioWare's and my KOTOR sequel expectatsions' sakes. 

Would be cool to see the GB crew doing a video series on SWTOR, especially playing as a party, but judging from their Bombcast comments I don't think they'll like it very much.
 
Finally, I hope this sudden announcement for the holiday season doesn't compromise the launch quality of the game. Maybe they're trying to avoid too much competition with Diablo 3. I wouldn't mind buying it at the end of their fiscal year if that extra time meant a smoother release, because MMOs always launch with problems.

@familyphotoshoot: @familyphotoshoot said:

This game is doomed.

I find your lack of faith disturbing