Originally posted by Czanrei

EA would sooner shut down the project than allow a delay. It will most likely be a lot more hype nonsesne mixed in with a announcement for launch in Q1 of 2012.

That second sentence contradicts your first. EA won't allow a delay? Yet you are predicting 2012 when both EA and Bioware have said 2011. Where's the delay and where's the evidence that it WON'T be 2011 (again EA/Bioware are saying 2011).

i kinda feel that they will announce some beta testing dates,not exactly but kinda they will give month when limited players can play swotr,maybe alpha cbt or something.

Probably something to do with pre order.. but if you pre order the "Deluxe"!! (tm) collectors edition... for 150 dollars you are guaranteed a beta download that may or may not finish before beta ends.

Meh who cares, I know I don't care about the next wow-clone to hit the market myself. But I know they gonna make a mint off of fanboys and girls just on box sales alone. I highy doubt there is 200 hours per class of indivual story content, when they say stuff like that I usually cut it by 75-95% and thats the true number. My main issues with swtor really, is how it bascally sounds like a world of warcraft clone just with a story and star wars skin, combat looks simmlar and th egame seems very casual.

I do wonder what they are going to announce though, would be nice if it is open beta, so I can try the game, because otherwise I won't touch it, no matter what its gameplay is like or who made it. I've lost faith in bioware after dragon age 2 and mass effect 2, so I don't really expect much out of them anymore. I don't take risks buying mmo's I've never tried anymore because almost every time they end up sucking or I dislike them and I just wasted the money.

Wonder if it could be the games release date maybe?, Details on OB, or the collectors edition etc?

I'm guessing pre-order information and box art.  I appriciate all the effort the developement team is putting into the game, but more previews are meh.  The more I see, the less excited I am too.  I think Bioware, like Blizzard in '04, bit off more than they could chew and they're 8 years too late.

personally i know how my friends will react if they delay much longer (all of which are planning on jumping right in right at launch, they are going to be disappointed and people will start flaming on the message boards and if their delay is long enough people will forget it's even there.

Originally posted by Shodanas

Release date? I don't think so. I guess the announcements will relate towards the 'never done before' stuff regarding raids and maybe something more solid about crafting. 

 

That announcement, I am almost positive, will be to announce the date when the release date will be announced. An announcement of an announcement date, if you will.

Dream: "Just fooling about the rail shooter."

Reality: "Meh."

I say its news on the payment model they will say it will be a freemium model where the people who preorder get everything plus a 1 month sub and the ones that dont just get some sort of basic game.

I'll bet they're going to tell us that Darth Vader is really Luke's father.  

Originally posted by Dante1443

I'll bet they're going to tell us that Darth Vader is really Luke's father.  

NOOOOOOOOOO !!!

Originally posted by nolic1

I say its news on the payment model they will say it will be a freemium model where the people who preorder get everything plus a 1 month sub and the ones that dont just get some sort of basic game.

 

That'll never happen with the hype.  It would be an infastructure nightmare.  The idea of f2p is to bring in more players to butress a failing player community.  EA is going to have enough players.  They just need to wring more money out of them to recover the costs of building the game and still turn a 40% profit margin like Blizzard does on WoW.

I stand by box art and pre-order deals.  Worst case, they show crafting in more detail and anounce a delay to Q1 2012.  We all know it's coming.  It'll lead nicely into ME3 in March too assuming the game is stable and fun.

Doubt they will have a release date but I think they will announce the last couple of features for the game. They will probably show off the world pvp system and maybe another operation. I could also see them announcing the date for phase 2 of the guild system on the website. I bet Comi-con is gonna be all about answering questions regarding end-game since that really is all thats left that people don't know about.

At 3:30PM on Thursday, July 21st our panel for Star Wars: The Old Republic will be held inside room #6BCF. During the panel we will be answering questions from the audience, Awesome, another Q&A where a BW employee will answer questions that have already been answered, dodge questions they aren't allowed to answer, and say something arrogant to anyone who asks a question that they don't like. giving away some items, Nothing wrong with free shwag, even if it's for an underwhelming project. showing new gameplay footage and making some announcements!  As others have said, the announcements will likely concern the lead-ups to release date, such as pre-order announcements, pre-order rewards, etc. There may not be a release date yet, but hey, it's getting closer.  Once the game is released, and players rush throuh all of the "epic story," and then leave, EA/BW can see how far off their projected subscription numbers are, and start fixing the design flaws that have caused so many of us gamers/SW fans to lose interest.     

It would be bad news if they were to announce a release date, it would be like saying, hey our game is incomplete but we will annoy you by patching it up, changing your spells/skills and balancing them as we go!

Nah at best they may release info on potential beta tests and or new undisclosed info on their story/combat system but i really would not expect bioware to even make a stab in the dark release date at this point..

The announcemet will be how plants are designed and rendered in The Old Republic.

There will be detailed informattion on the fauna on all planets. There will be progression video of plants through different stages of growth.

The really big announcement at the end of CCSD will be Sith and Jedi flowers that are force sensitive.

SR will tweet or post something cryptic before CCSD and will post an I told ya so after CCSD.

You heard it here.

More gameplay footage *yawn*

This must be th emost picked over game by the developers ever, if its not perfect the masses will throw a wobbly.

They added another 2 hours to the story..

Story story story..ermmm we know BioWare, the game has a story..