New Star Wars Mmo Coming!!!

[Loook]

YOU HEARD ME!

I recently took a Survey about a game on SurveySpot. I usually delete this crap but was bored. I tried to copy/paste the description but naturally it was blocked. Here is the information I can recall even though I had to agree NOT to share said information. Screw that.

Next-Gen was in the article about 1000 times along with mentioning SWG all over the place.

Setting: 3500 years before Vader

Title: Star Wars: The Old Republic (no not that crap one you'll find with google)

Features I remember:

8 professions-smuggler and BH stick out immediately

Functional Light side/ Dark side- npcs and others remember what you do and their reactions change accordingly.

Legacy system. When you reach top level, apparently you have the option of producing an offspring with special bonus traits and starting over...or something to that effect.

Companion: Han had Chewy, Luke had R2...blah blah....someone to accompany you. Potential for romance sticks out as something oddly unique

Fully customizable ship. Can be bought or stolen!!

No more miles of reading text. Events happen in game with full voice overs. Sounds damn impossible if you ask me.

Full grouping ala any damn MMO

Some sort of minigame that is used to influence others?? Not many details on that one.

well, there were 10 major points we had to vote on and classify in order of what we liked the best. These are the only ones I remember.


So, could we have something here?? It sounds cool to me!! 1/2 of it was "would you pay 39.99 for game and 12.95 for sub?" and stuff.

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!!!WOOOOT!!!

anyone else take the survey? It may still be up at surveyspot -New video game survey was title.

Any thoughts???

[Aosin]

I'd be more excited by a Fallout MMO.

[Thomas_Nuffan]

if i wanted to play old republic online with a bunch of jedi running around everywhere, id just play galaxies

[AKABE]

nothing will beat galaxies before the jedi patch.

ANd how the hell do I change the color of this website...its a terrible brown for me right now. :S

[Luna]

links?

[Loook]

Yeah, I too would rather have a Fallout MMO haha. I've kept this avatar while waiting for Fallout 3 for years.....

Sorry there are no links since it was from SurveySpot. I dug around and can find zero information on it. Only someone else who took the same survey would be able to verify. I wouldn't lie to ya though!

[white96cobra]

Just sounds like another "focus group" for Sony. I wouldn't be surprised if they just up and change the time line now.

[Thomas_Nuffan]

by the looks of it maybe that wasnt just another focus group..

The rumours are being shot down.. but then again.. the rumours that Dell was buying Alienware were shot down as well. MMORGPDOT is reporting the story. It's running rampant all over the net. Given Galaxies' bumpy ride, and the fact that many game contracts expire after three years, it is not inconceivable that LucasArts, holder of all Star Wars rights, might want to shop around the license. According to informed sources in the industry, that's exactly what the company is doing. Two shops have been mentioned as talking with LucasArts--Cryptic Studios, home to MMORPG City of Heroes, and Canada-based BioWare, maker of the action RPG Jade Empire.

Of the two, BioWare appears the more likely candidate. Besides the fact it developed the critically acclaimed and wildly popular Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the developer just founded a new studio in Austin, Texas--home of SOE's Austin branch--which employs several ex-SOE staffers. The shop's sole project is an unidentified MMORPG set in a science fiction universe, just as Star Wars: Galaxies is. Can SOE keep hold of this property with the problems that they've had?

http://www.tentonhammer.com/index.php?q=node/2847

[Thomas_Nuffan]

SOE losing Star Wars: Galaxies license?
Source: Popular game blog Kotaku.

The official story: See below.

What we heard: Of all the Star Wars games, Galaxies has been the most controversial. After releasing it to mixed reviews in 2003, Sony Online Entertainment was criticized for completely overhauling the massively multiplayer online role-playing game's combat system in Spring 2005. The publisher drew even more criticism last November when it implemented a series of allegedly buggy new game enhancements that eliminated several character classes.

Given Galaxies' bumpy ride, and the fact that many game contracts expire after three years, it is not inconceivable that LucasArts, holder of all Star Wars rights, might want to shop around the license. According to informed sources in the industry, that's exactly what the company is doing. Two shops have been mentioned as talking with LucasArts--Cryptic Studios, home to MMORPG City of Heroes, and Canada-based BioWare, maker of the action RPG Jade Empire.

Of the two, BioWare appears the more likely candidate. Besides the fact it developed the critically acclaimed and wildly popular Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the developer just founded a new studio in Austin, Texas--home of SOE's Austin branch--which employs several ex-SOE staffers. The shop's sole project is an unidentified MMORPG set in a science fiction universe, just as Star Wars: Galaxies is.

What's the official line on all this? "The SWG license stuff is completely untrue," was a SOE spokesperson's terse response. "LucasArts and SOE have no plans to 'sunset' Star Wars Galaxies," said a LucasArts rep, referring to the practice of gradually phasing out a game. "It's had its fair share of hurdles, but it has also had its share of successes in its own right, so we aren't interested in abandoning it and focusing on the future."

However, what the LucasArts rep said next raised another interesting possibility--that another Star Wars MMORPG could be in the works. "We have had several developers approach us expressing interest in developing a future Star Wars online game," said the rep. (emphasis in the original.) However, if any such game is in the works, it will be a long time until it surfaces. "As of right now, it hasn't gone anything beyond that (that is, no conversations, no serious talks, no pitches, etc.)," assured the rep.

Despite the official denials, there is still much talk of all not being well at SOE Austin. Though potentially biased, a contact within another studio claims to have been peppered with resumes from SOE developers. The source claims that "over half of the [SOE Austin] coders and artists are scrambling for the lifeboats" because "they all seem to know they will be losing SWG." The studio has already seen one major departure--chief creative officer Raph Koster left this week "to pursue development interests outside of the company."

Bogus or not bogus?: Officially? Bogus. Unofficially? Who knows...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_bl...ic_id=24466266

[Thomas_Nuffan]

but yeah, all this stuff is all over google.

interesting