I completely agree that in many ways SWG was way ahead of it's time.  Unfortunately, that was also part of its downfall. 

However, now we're seeing a gradual shift towards more sandbox experiences.

Personally, I have believed for a long time that the best Star Wars MMO would be a hybrid sadnbox/themepark experience.  It's possible... but the right people really need to be involved.

Again, this is why I say I think what SEO is doing with EverQuest Next is going to be great for MMORPG's and I would love to have them take on Star Wars again with the same pilosophy and all the lessons learned from SWG.

Originally posted by dustyhayes

Originally posted by Vorthanion

Originally posted by zakin

Originally posted by GeezerGamer

I'm not buyin it.
And besides, LA can't make a game to save their arse.
If they have any say in the game's development....And I think they've had more say in the previous 2 than what we are being told, the game will be crap anyway.

 

LA is also very upset with Bioware/EA's handling of SWTOR

That doesn't make sense, since LA has to give approval for anything Star Wars that is made and according to developer blogs, they were constantly keeping eyes on SWTOR's progress from beginning to end.  So, either someone is lying or LA doesn't want to admit they supported an idea that was good on paper, but not as good in practice.

1. If there was to be another Star Wars MMO I would keep an eye on it, but I would appoach it with skepticism and my expectations would be far more conservative because the Star Wars brand won't be getting anymore leaps of faith out of me.

2. Yeah I'm sure LA would be pretty unhappy with Bioware/EA since they had the talent, the resouces, the financial support of a high-budget Michael Bay movie, and the golden IP to have an excellent opportunity give Blizzard one hell of a run for its money and it got squandered to make "WoW in Space theme parker"  while they should of been bold and orginal in making an next gen MMO instead of repeating the same mistake which SOE did with the SWG's "NGE" /Rant Off because I could write a few pages of this.

3. All I got to say is "Star Wars prequals" Lucas defend it, would not admitt his mistakes and blames it on the Star Wars fans for ruining Star Wars.

Number 3 reminds me of a parody video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlbPXZEpRE

Even if a lot of people saw the first 3 films as abominations, he did keep defending them as if there was nothing wrong.

Originally posted by Deleted User

If LA was smart, they would eat some crow hire SOE to re-release the original SWG, no patches. and stick with only fixing bugs, that's it.

That would equal insane profits in today's market, that particular version of the game was far ahead of many MMOs today.

I know it's a pipedream, but seriously, if I was an investor in that company.. the game is already made, HELLO.

Roll it back, release it new, no bonuses for anyone, clean slate, and boom...PROFIT! and the sandbox crowd as well as the SW IP fans /drool.

just a humble opinion.

but I'd still insist on a one year period of intensive bugfixing, graphics updating and polishing, then release as Star Wars - Galaxies Reborn

Originally posted by zakin

Originally posted by GeezerGamer

I'm not buyin it.
And besides, LA can't make a game to save their arse.
If they have any say in the game's development....And I think they've had more say in the previous 2 than what we are being told, the game will be crap anyway.

 

LA is also very upset with Bioware/EA's handling of SWTOR

If Disney is upset too, maybe there will be a new Starwars MMO announced soon.

Let's hope for the best

Lucas Arts no longer owns Star Wars. It's Disney now.

Also I very much doubt Lucas Arts would have sold an exclusivity deal to Paradox in 2010 while Bioware was working on SWTOR. It makes no sense at all.

It's possible LA hedged its bets and gave out another SW MMO licesnse. (They did torpedo SWG with SWTOR, even after it was their insistence on the NGE.)

Looking at the timetable, this guy from EA states,

"When I was in EA we were deeply concerned about how boring SWTOR’s gameplay was. And that was back in 2010. They finally realized the truth and decided to delay the game for another year to try to fix it."

http://whatculture.com/gaming/why-guild-wars-2-triumphed-where-others-failed.php

So I guess anything is possible. OP states the second license was given out in 2010.

Originally posted by DamonVile
The post is almost a year old and still no word or even rumors....hmmm

Who knows. The internet is a giant rumorville. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.400521-Obsidian-is-Pitching-a-New-Star-Wars-Game

Originally posted by tiefighter25

Originally posted by DamonVile
The post is almost a year old and still no word or even rumors....hmmm

Who knows. The internet is a giant rumorville. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.400521-Obsidian-is-Pitching-a-New-Star-Wars-Game

that's not a rumor though. They are pitching a new star wars game. It may even happen if it's not an mmo. As far as  I know only the rights to MMOs was sold to EA. There's nothing stopping somethinng like this from happening.