New Star Wars MMO

I think at that time they were talking about a different MMO they are also making, but I imagine they would carry the mindset over into KOTOR..

Some guy apparently took a survey a year ago, for a game called "Star Wars The Old Republic" which is an exact name that LucasArts just registered.

WOW....this would make me VERY happy if it came for the 360...cuz I know my computer would die, and my internet would have siezures with it...I would be happy with a 1-player version, even.

They are making a KOTOR III as well from what I hear.

Oh my, well that is exciting!

I personally prefer the Old Republic to the New/Prequel Republic. I dont really know why...I guess KOTOR(One) made that big of an impact on me...Still the best star wars game I've ever played.

Before the 'New Game Enhancement' (or as us old SWG players like to call it 'Nerfed Game Experience') used a system called 'skill trees', where as long as you have the points you can mix and match the different profession trees.

You had your basic trees: Brawler, Marksman, Medic, Artistian, Politican, Entertainer and Scout (there were three pilot trees as well, but they had a separate pool of points. There was also a Jedi tree once you unlocked it.). Once you full filled certain requirements with the basic trees, you can start training in 'master' trees and each basic tree lead up a number of master professions (some master professions requried a number of skills from different basic trees and one profession, politican, didn't lead to anything else). Here's a sight you can look at get an idea of how many proffesions there were: http://www.bafordham.com/swg/skilltrees.html

You had enough points to 'master' two professions: for instance before the NGE I had a Master Fencer/Master Ranger (Also a master Rebel pilot) and a Master Teras Kasi/Master Dancer. You could mix and match anything so long as you had the points to do it, so the combinations were near endless.

Then the NGE happened....which reduced the number of professions down to a strict 8. Yes 8...and you could no longer mix and match. One of those starting professions was Jedi, which pissed off a lot of people as before you had to work hard to get one. Making matters worse...this game was supposed to be set between EP 3 and Ep 4, where there were only supposed to be four jedi around canon wise. (They also changed the mechanics to twitched based)

Even worse is that they were activately talking with us on revamping certain skill trees (Ranger being one of them), only to suddenly dump the NGE on us and effectively make all that talk one big lie. I didn't even bother trying it when this hit (I think I was deployed at the time as well), it digusted me too much and made what accomplishments in game null and void.

Seems the way of MMOs these days, sadly. I wouldn't bother picking up Age of Conan, or Warhammer, for at least another year - if not longer. As it stands, both games have promised big things, and both have been forced to dump a bunch of 'pre-release content' due to not being able to have it ready by go-day; this, in turn, has resulted in broken classes, large sections of playable areas missing, and (in War's case) resulted in classes/races being removed completely until an undisclosed time...

So, you'll excuse me if I don't get excited about this Old Republic MMO - it could be really good, or really bad.

Recently, BioWare, creator of KotOR, Jade Empire, and Neverwinter Nights I and II, layed off several staff members. The staff members, disgruntled, informed the press that BioWare was, in fact, making a KotOR MMO. BioWare has neither Denied nor Acknowledged this, nor have they even chose to speak of the issue.

therefore it HAS to be true! lol

I hope so

Uhm..President of EA aka the company that owns BioWare already said at E3 08 that BioWare was making an MMO set in the Old Republic.