We stopped by EA's booth at E3 2012 to check out what BioWare has in store for Star Wars: The Old Republic in 2012. Read on to find out what we learned!

New Planet: Makeb

Unlike Denova, Makeb is an actual full-blown new planet that players will be able to run around on. BioWare’s Dallas Dickinson described Makeb as a ‘massive’ planet full of hours and hours of new storyline content. Makeb is an entirely new planet created for Star Wars: The Old Republic, so BioWare basically has free reign as far as Makeb’s lore goes. Makeb’s content will center on the storyline of the rise of the Hutt Cartel. In short, the Hutts are making a play for control of the galaxy and Makeb is where it all begins. Players of both the Empire and Republic factions will land on Makeb in an effort to squash the efforts of the Hutts before they really take form.

Read more of Michael Bitton's Star Wars: The Old Republic: SWTOR at E3 2012.

When I first saw the Cathar as a quest giver I said to myself it should have been in game.

Theres nothing really left to say except apparently they were the joke of E3 most people were silent during their crappy presentation.

I truly don't understand why they don't fix Ilum...Stop adding warzones, fix open world PvP.  Revamp Ilum and you would have me rejoining.  I can't understand why they have this giant, empty, crappy, pvp area (same with lawless sands) why they don't revamp it..?

All those bright neon glowing colors during battles. Looks like a bunch of ravers at Electric Daisy Carnival

I don't understand why they add content when they know they need to fix the current issues in the game. Adding content won't make people return. People will just assume that it will be crappy like llum. Fix the current issues first before you add new content k cool.

Originally posted by Jonoku

I don't understand why they add content when they know they need to fix the current issues in the game. Adding content won't make people return. People will just assume that it will be crappy like llum. Fix the current issues first before you add new content k cool.

Exactly.

SWTOR has a bad rep for being "unfinished" and buggy, you would think they would want to change people's perception of the game first by sorting the original game before adding more content that has a pretty high chance of adding even more issues. 

I am pretty sure i seen batman in that video..

Yeah check it out at 0.50 it is indeed batman..

Adding content and addressing existing issues aren't mutually exclusive. This is a very common misconception about game development. The fact of the matter is you can't get people excited to come back or check out your game with bug fixes. Can you imagine BioWare releasing a flashy trailer all about fixing bugs or addressing some other issues? Adding additional features and content is important to any live game. Fixing bugs and addressing balance issues can (and do) happen at the same time.

Will those turrets be usable?

Originally posted by Xstatic912
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What puzzles me is Ea wants a good size of the mmo market but aren't willing to commit to it. ...

Sorry, but they "commited" something like $700 or $800 million when they bought Bioware and an undisclosed amount for developing SWTOR. EA even stated that it's the largest budget they ever spent on the development of a game.

That's a pretty good "commitment" if you ask me ...

suprised they even had a presentation for star wars the old republic

they must be making it look like they care about it.maybe they forgot and didnt have there tiger woods golf presentation availible?

but why is batman in a starwars game?

Originally posted by MikeB

Adding content and addressing existing issues aren't mutually exclusive. This is a very common misconception about game development. The fact of the matter is you can't get people excited to come back or check out your game with bug fixes. Can you imagine BioWare releasing a flashy trailer all about fixing bugs or addressing some other issues? Adding additional features and content is important to any live game. Fixing bugs and addressing balance issues can (and do) happen at the same time.

Fixing content though, which is different then bugs - Again, Ilum, They have made no mention of it in months, it's a graveyard and it was one of the most promising aspects of end game content.  If they revamped it instead of adding all this fluff...

theres alot more wrong with swtor's pvp then just ilum

so i doubt revamping ilum will do anything to swtors pvp.chances are,the same bunch who ruined ilum the first time would probably ruin it the 2nd,and they'll just be back to where they started

my advice is,if you truly care about the pvp in swtor.your wasting your time and should just quit now,theres mmos out there that are leaps and bounds ahead of swtor's pvp.which is sad considering one of the things they hyped up about was there pvp team being really good

Sadly I quit playing. I just couldn't stay interested. The main reason I left WoW is because I was bored with the end game content. Dailys get old FAST. I was hoping SWTOR would be different, but once I hit 50, I found out it was exactly the same. "Oh, now you're 50! Time to grind a ton of quests, dailies, and (heroics)."

I wanted TOR to bring something new to the MMO world. What a let down.

Michael Bitton:

" I’ll take what I can get on this front, but I’m really hoping to hear about the ‘super secret’ space project BioWare has in the works before the year’s up!"

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Where did you get that time frame from?

Just out of curiosity, what's exactly wrong with Ilum besides it not being played much?

Seems like the regular battleground area to me, with objectives, but then persistent.

But I haven't played it. Anybody here that can tell the details in mechanics what's wrong with it, or what should be fixed in it?

Originally posted by zinger71
Batman...lol. I had to see for myself. Sure as heck. There he is. The caped crusader at 0:50...SWTOR is DCUO.

Lol. Not really Batman. But yeah, it has some of that look. Looked pretty cool, actually.