This is the only good bit of information to ever come out of the KOTOR MMO rumor mill.

I'm still not convinced.  This could be a SWG expansion, or yet another change to SWG, or just something else entirely.  It's interesting that it says "international" when describing the online service, though.

Maybe I'll revise my position from "not going to happen" to "we'll see".

Originally posted by Gutboy

Many companies trademark anything and everything they can think of to keep other companies from using  any incarnation of a IP. Just standard business practice. 

 

LOL - Yes it is SOP when you are planning to use the Mark.

Please go here http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=search&state=heldv9.1.1

And use this search term:

Lucasfilm AND on-line AND LIVE[LD] AND "041"[IC]

Kinda not "anything and everything" is it?

So there are only two games Bioware hasnt announced. Their MMO and the project with LucasArts.

Kinda strange isnt it....

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Bioware's MMO is a fantasy game with dragons, nothing to do with Star Wars whatsoever.

Maybe someday there will be a Kotor, but it will be quite a while if you are waiting for Bioware to do it.

Explain then their calaboration with Lucas Arts? If they were making another Orcs n Elves game then what does Lucas Arts have to do with it?

Originally posted by Battleskar

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Bioware's MMO is a fantasy game with dragons, nothing to do with Star Wars whatsoever.

Maybe someday there will be a Kotor, but it will be quite a while if you are waiting for Bioware to do it.

 

Explain then their calaboration with Lucas Arts? If they were making another Orcs n Elves game then what does Lucas Arts have to do with it?

Willow?

Originally posted by Toolfan

Originally posted by Battleskar

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Bioware's MMO is a fantasy game with dragons, nothing to do with Star Wars whatsoever.

Maybe someday there will be a Kotor, but it will be quite a while if you are waiting for Bioware to do it.

 

Explain then their calaboration with Lucas Arts? If they were making another Orcs n Elves game then what does Lucas Arts have to do with it?

 

Willow?

Doubt it. I' betting the MMO could be either Dragon Age Online or KotOR Online or maybe, just maybe a Mass Effect MMO.

Originally posted by Hauken

So there are only two games Bioware hasnt announced. Their MMO and the project with LucasArts.

Kinda strange isnt it....

Bioware has three unannounced titles.  The MMO, the Bioware/LEC game, and a "New Next Gen Game".  The new next gen game might be Mass Effect 2, since Bioware has already made it clear that they intend to make at least three games in the Mass Effect series.

The MMO or the next gen game could also be the LucasArts project.

Another thing to consider is that Bioware's MMO development team includes some of the folks who worked on KotOR, which means they were folks who originally worked in the Edmonton studio who hadn't worked on an MMO before.  The rest of the team is mainly folk who worked on UO and SWG, since those are the two major MMOs that were developed in Austin, so it would be hard to build a team in Austin of experienced MMO developers without some folks who had worked on both or either.

Originally posted by Hrothmund

Originally posted by Toolfan

Originally posted by Battleskar

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Bioware's MMO is a fantasy game with dragons, nothing to do with Star Wars whatsoever.

Maybe someday there will be a Kotor, but it will be quite a while if you are waiting for Bioware to do it.

 

Explain then their calaboration with Lucas Arts? If they were making another Orcs n Elves game then what does Lucas Arts have to do with it?

 

Willow?

 

Doubt it. I' betting the MMO could be either Dragon Age Online or KotOR Online or maybe, just maybe a Mass Effect MMO.

The Bioware MMO wasn't listed as a Bioware IP in the EA press releases.  Bioware was (still might have the jobs listed) hiring some folks in Austin to work with a third party IP owner.  The only thing being developed in Austin by Bioware is the MMO, so everything points to the MMO being based on a non-Bioware owned IP.  That leaves out Mass Effect and Dragon Age.  It doesn't limit the IP to being Star Wars or any other LucasFilm IP though.  I highly doubt it is an EA owned or licensed IP, since Bioware licensed software to do their own billing for the product (from Perpetual) and EA has had their own system set up for that since UO was launched.  With the EA buyout, and Perpetual going belly up, I would assume that Bioware will use EA's billing system.

Originally posted by kb056

Christ, if people who have been folowing Bioware's development and can't see the mmo is going to be Mass Effect Online, then your blind and will see nothing even after it's announced.

 

Open your eyes, people!

 

Doubt it.  What proof do you have on that.  All you are doing is speculating too.  I don't see any indication of Mass Effect Online. 

Has been confirmed by MANY major sites now that IT IS A KOTOR MMO.

Originally posted by golstat2003

Has been confirmed by MANY major sites now that IT IS A KOTOR MMO.

Not to be argumentative, but nothing was confirmed.  Kotaku and others were all linking back to the same rumor, or to each other, but never to any official source.

edit : looks like a brand new bit of news hit today:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/17/porfolio-com-lucasarts-and-bioware-building-kotor-mmo/

it has been confrimed Kortor will come out 2009      http://www.gamespot.com/news/6194664.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;1