KOTOR MMO to be revealed next month!

According to The Daily Star, Bioware and LucasArts will unveil Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic MMO Next Month.

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Can't say I'm that excited, I love the KOTOR series a great deal but I honestly don't think it would be as good a MMO as it is a single play experience. MMO's are usually very poor at telling stories and the past KOTOR games have all been about the stories. It also feels a little unfair to those who have been waiting ages for a new Kotor but actually hate MMO's. Can't stand them, although I did love SWG but I suspect KOTOR MMO will be very much in the same World of Warcraft vain of games. Would have loved to see KOTOR 3 with todays tech, but I guess LucasArts can make more money with a MMO. I can see all the tacky specal appearances now :)

I think I'll pass and wait for Kotor 3 proper from who ever, even if its Obsidian. Not sure I want a MMO and I'd bet a lot of KOTOR fans would agree, one of the reasons I loved the past games because they weren't an MMO.

I agree to an extent, but I'd at least be willing to let them try it out.  I'm not going to shoot them down and say the game won't work before they even announce the details.  I'm looking forward to hearing more of what they say about this.  I think, if done properly, this can be a great MMO.

I absolutely loved KOTOR and really enjoyed KOTOR 2 as well, but I've never been too into an MMO and I don't know how well this game would actually hold up against every other MMO out there. I would rather just see KOTOR3 that has a great story like the original, but has awesome real-time combat like a GoW game...that would be amazing!

TRUST BIOWARE.

shits going to be awesome.

I've been trying to decide whether it would be a good idea or not for about a year, and I've decided that it would be. They don't have to follow the traditional format of giving you text to read with a few sound clips. It would take a bit longer, but they could still do the full conversation trees. They can still do the huge skill tree. All that really needs to change is adding in the other people, and maybe a modified version of the party system. Although I would assume that they would account for that with the other players.

Well first of all, to the OP, this appears to be KOTOR 3, meaning you won't experience a singleplayer campaign KOTOR.
Anyway... I've pretty much given up on Lucas Arts, after various failings, an Unleashed not grabbing my personal attention, I can't see myself wanting to buy any product developed by the company; similar to Sierra about 4 years ago.
Bioware have already said they're not in the MMO Lucas Arts project, and hence are not making this MMO KOTOR/Star Wars game.  If it's not from Bioware than I couldn't care less. Bioware has Dragon Age, the Mass Effect trilogy, recently opened rights to the Baldur's Gate franchise from Interplay and Wizards of the Coast, and some unannounced projects, I can't see a company with just under 200 employees taking the brunt of a console trilogy, a purchase from EA for the entire company, a singleplayer focused PC game AND a KOTOR MMO with co-op from Lucas Arts. If anything their MMO is an independant property, they've already said their MMO is going to bridge the gap between storytelling and MMO gameplay; if they're tied to Lucas Arts than the latter is going to be significantly affected, especially if it is a KOTOR storyline, since the timeline for KOTOR is around 4000 years Before A New Hope. Their MMO is most likely an in-house intellectual property, and is therefore not KOTOR 3/MMO KOTOR. And reiterating; they've said as much. I can't wait for this MMO to be announced and Bioware's company line being no where near it's announcement and all the articles and forum posts on Bioware developing a KOTOR MMO slowly die out; they aren't making this project.

Imo I think they should make a mass effect mmo, the universe they created for it is incredible (plus the music is so damn awesome), it would be a shame to get another recycled Star Wars based game, however I wouldn't mind ;).

I cant wait!!! =P
Hopefully it will live up to its high expecations.

"Well first of all, to the OP, this appears to be KOTOR 3, meaning you won't experience a singleplayer campaign KOTOR.
Anyway... I've pretty much given up on Lucas Arts, after various failings, an Unleashed not grabbing my personal attention, I can't see myself wanting to buy any product developed by the company; similar to Sierra about 4 years ago.
Bioware have already said they're not in the MMO Lucas Arts project, and hence are not making this MMO KOTOR/Star Wars game."

October 21st, we get the "big announcement" apparently.

As I read the the moral choice thing, it gave me an idea. When you create your character, you could be a neutral character. As you go through the game, you become morally good or evil. From that, you become a part of a faction in the game, either good, neutral, or evil. That's about the only way I can see the moral stuff from the KotOR games work at all.

It could be either really good, or really bad, like most things.
Nonetheless I'd be willing to give it a try.
We'll see how they do on their first MMO.

I'm not really into MMO's, if only for the fact that I have to shell out monthly fees. :p  I wish they would have stuck to the first game's style.

im kinda iffy on it. If they can keep the immersion of a single player RPG and have all of the good parts of an MMO it might be worth picking up.

"As I read the the moral choice thing, it gave me an idea. When you create your character, you could be a neutral character. As you go through the game, you become morally good or evil. From that, you become a part of a faction in the game, either good, neutral, or evil. That's about the only way I can see the moral stuff from the KotOR games work at all."

I would like there to be a good star wars mmo and a new kotor game

Ooooo, been waiting for this, should eb VERY interesting to say the least.

It sounds like crap. Everyone wants to "MMO"-transform whatever IP they can get their hands on. It's just a cash grab. All you get is short, boring quests that allow you to barely advance in levels so you can keep the monthly money flowing in.  It's boring.  I'm pretty sure everyone gets tired of playing a cog in the machine with MMOs when they could've played the main hero in the single-player games.

Anyone dug up anything recent on this alleged upcoming announcement?

Nothing ever seems to be confirmed or denied with this game. Its weird.