Originally posted by sylum69

 

Originally posted by cheeba

None because I still can't play anything with an LA tag on it still to this day.  Most pre-cu SWG players blame SOE.  I know the truth and blame LA for there total screwup of one of the best MMOs ever made. 

 

About SOE having the licence .  If I remember correctly that contract is already up or will be shortly. 

 

About Bioware only working on there own IP's.  Do some research people.  http://games.ign.com/articles/798/798382p1.html  Thats not one of there ip's is it?  Sonic RPG anyone? 

 

If I had to pick one developer it would be bioware though. 

 

What do you know about LA's involvement?

Enough to keep my mouth shut so I don't loose my job with my current employer.  But the facts are out there and have been reported on this site along with many others.

Originally posted by Anofalye

 

Originally posted by AveBethos

Bioware.

I agree.

However, I don't see why BioWare would accept.  BioWare has no reason to accept to work with LA as it was in the past.  And LA can't adapt and change.

Bioware has had very bad experiences with 3rd party IPs recently - getting the KOTOR licensed yanked from them when they would not cave to LA's ridiculous release time requirements, and getting NWN because of the D&D license. They've said since then that they really do not want to work with IPs not owned by them anymore, and I don't blame them.

Bioware could make it work, and make it great. But I don't think they'll touch it with a 10 mile long pole.

C

  NCSoft 

Bioware sounds good but since they have no experience yet in the MMO market, least to my knowledge, that may be a "Blessed Curse". Since making a MMO is a whole 'nother animal from making a single player game I'm not sure that LA would fancy another gamble. I would tend to think they would go for a company that has a GREAT rapport within the MMO community and, again since Bioware has no MMO community YET, they would look at what company has steady and nice growing numbers. But, who knows what LA is thinking and this is might be too rational for them to take this approach.   Ha Ha   Man, I really hope for a fresh, new Star Wars MMO but all these rumors can drive ya crazy for those of us that want this so badly.

No one, you guys can't possibly be satisfied with any game.

I always thought that a Old Republic timeline MMO would be great.   All jedi's but they just focus on different roles.  In the EU there was jedi's that focused on healing, Mace was one of the best lightsaber fighters, other jedi's focused more on the force.  I forgot this Jedi maasters name but the one that looks like he has one of those facehuggers from Aliens on his face (Ki-adi-mundi I think), well he focused on learning the ways of the dark side.  Which is why many jedi's stayed away from him.    When you look at it, you basically got wizards, warriors, warlocks and healers with what I just mentioned.  The basic focus of any MMO.   Great thing about the Old Republic timeline is that you don't have any continuity that bogs you down, and you can reference Raven, and profetize about the Skywalkers.    Oh and you have tons of jedi's and sith, cause it is before the Sith Civil Wars.  So now you have factional PvP as well.

 EDIT:  Some issues with SWG, even pre-CU was class distinction and continuity.  (Like how hundreds of Jedi's happen to have escaped undetected by Vader)  I remember the all TK groups, or even the TK soloing entire herds of Pikens.  A Old Republic timeline based MMO would satisfy MMO needs, have the capability to reference SW fan needs and can even explore the whole Skywalker prophecy thing.  They never mention how old that prophecy was.  Imagine if it was thousands of years old.  Makes the OT story even better.

the only way a good star wars mmo will ever be made is if lucas arts gets off their butts and forms their own online games division and

steal devs away from other companies.

one of the main problems with swg was the fact that you had two different companies butting heads or simply not on the same page. one knowing online gaming but not the I.P. and the other knowing the I.P. but no idea how to handle a game or playerbase.

the StarWars License should be taken away from LucasArts.

SOE , there is no new star wars MMO.

Something funny here.....

Everyone keeps saying NCSoft, when infact they don't develop the games, they publish them.

I would say if a new SW mmo was to be developed I would list...

1.  Cryptic Studios

2.  Turbine

3.  Blizzard

4.  AreneNet

as some good choices.  They are all very good companies with very good track records of putting out good games.

As long as $oe has nothing to do with it then I really don't care. However, if blizzard got hold of it and they did cartoony characters like in WoW then I'll just give up on SW MMO's forever.

I voted Microsoft simply because they have the money to throw at a game like this but NCsoft would also be a very close second.

LOL.  You put an SOE button....and some people actually pushed it...hehe.

NCSoft or Bioware, either would probably do a fine job.

SOE.

Anyone but SOE and EA.

My picks would be in order.

1: NCsoft

2: CCP, Would make one hell of a sandbox with tons of skills like the SWG we all loved.

3: Would have been Mythic but now belongs to EA... sorry mythic

4: Blizzard, only b/c the game would work and would be finished polished product.

5: Bioware

6: Funcom

7: Areae, Inc : Who better to do it then Raph. Sorry i put him at 7th but i figured he might not want to touch another star wars MMO.

Originally posted by sgtwepps

SOE , there is no new star wars MMO.

Think before you post here fanbois.

Bioware fo-sho 

    Bioware for sure - and be sure to include giant space hamsters!!!

Originally posted by csthao

First of all Lucas Arts has enough money and talent to make their own MMO...I just simply dont understand why they would need another big company to mess up their own game...They made many popular single player games that has good quests and stories as it is...My personal favorite was the old Star Wars Tie Fighters or whatever it was called been such a long time (think it was back in the mid 90's) and the Wing Commander series...If I were them I would create my own mmo they have more than enough money to fund thier own game...

 I do not want to vote for NCsoft because I do not want to jinx the good experiiances I habve had with them so far. I am also still not sure who all the players are in the MMO world. I think I would just be happy to have a skill tree system like in pre-cu and open ended game play. Also good customer support would be nice also and updates as bug free as possable.

Put your feeling of WoW aside dont you think Blizzard shows the most talent to date, if you compare the smoothness of game play and player interaction.. all other MMO's that I have played EQ2,AO,VG and DAoC moving my WoW toon around the enviroment is x100 better, no invisible walls, warping, choppy animations the other games my character feels sluggish and slow to respond.