Originally posted by IAmMMO

It won't be a MMO.  It's going to be a online RPG don't like Diablo 1 & 2 were done with the whole battle.net.

Yes it will. read the interview again. He said the word "MMO". and that is enough info for expecting the Bioware MMO is Kotor.

For anyone not seen it yet

Jul 17 2008 12:44PM EDT
EA to Play in Knights of the Old Republic
17-kotor-logo-large.jpgN. Evan Van Zelfden in Los Angeles warns, watch out World of Warcraft. In an interview at E3 this week, Electronic Arts chief executive John Riccitiello said that EA is working on the next version of Star Wars game Knights of the Old Republic, and it will most certainly have a massively multiplayer online component to it.

"We've got two of the most compelling MMOs in the industry in development," said Riccitiello. The first title, based on the Warhammer property, will launch soon. "And the one that people are dying for us to talk to them about -- in partnership with Lucas, coming out of BioWare, which is, I think, quite possibly the most anticipated game, full stop, for the industry at the point when we get closer to telling you about it."

Does Riccitiello mean the oft rumored Knights of the Old Republic Online? "Yes," he said.

Moving into MMOs is an essential component for any gaming company, and it's a big part of the reason Vivendi merged with Activision, for that company's World of Warcraft MMO.

Riccitiello told Portfolio.com that he was interested in owning World of Warcraft, and that he did discuss it, but it wasn't in the cards. "Because [Vivendi] couldn't afford control of EA, and I wasn't giving it up."

But EA is firmly on that path now, with a KOTOR MMO, which would sidestep the consoles owned by Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. "Increasingly, people are going to be talking about direct-to-customer in our business," said Riccitiello. "I think we'll be talking about it louder than most."

forgive me if it's been posted before but i found this a couple of weeks back

http://kotor.mmolab.com/index.php/Main_Page

I was a player for 3 years, i left not too long after the NGE, the NGE shafted me bigtime, i was one phase change from unlocking Jedi when NGE went live. i gave it a try though with an open mind, i even created a Jedi but went back to my main and respecced to BH, i became a good BH too on Kauri Server. I could solo an elder Jedi, not hard some might say, well i was solo'ing lvl 90 elder jedi's when i was lvl 82, no underhanded tactics or aids, simple one on one using every skill i possessed.

back on topic though, KotOR online should have Jedi's from the start or at least easier to unlock compared to Pre-NGE SWG, this is because if the game is set prior to the jedi wipe (order 66 i think) there were jedi in great numbers all over the galaxy. If the game is done right and the company wants to make it a success to beat EVERY MMO on the market and to be released in the market then it has to be the same style as PRE NGE SWG...   a simple MMO like SWG is today won't cut it.

Originally posted by lovecraft0Z

Originally posted by IAmMMO

It won't be a MMO.  It's going to be a online RPG don't like Diablo 1 & 2 were done with the whole battle.net.

 

Yes it will. read the interview again. He said the word "MMO". and that is enough info for expecting the Bioware MMO is Kotor.

Yes he did say it was going to be an MMO.

And once it does come out, who ever is still playing SWG will leave then. I just wonder if they will be forced to close the game down after that.

Originally posted by Antaran

back on topic though, KotOR online should have Jedi's from the start or at least easier to unlock compared to Pre-NGE SWG, this is because if the game is set prior to the jedi wipe (order 66 i think) there were jedi in great numbers all over the galaxy. If the game is done right and the company wants to make it a success to beat EVERY MMO on the market and to be released in the market then it has to be the same style as PRE NGE SWG...   a simple MMO like SWG is today won't cut it.

Honestly, I enjoyed how hard it was to become a jedi. I remember walking around a city and seeing one for the first time. Freakin awesome. Aye, it was hard to become one but it made it worthwhile. Not everyone was going to be a jedi like most are now in swg. But thats just my opinion.

I'm really looking forward to this new Bioware game. There's no reason why this game shouldn't be amazing.

I love how ppl reason there should be zillions of jedi, because it's the Old Republic era.

If you read novels, comics from that era, you'll see there were a few thousands of jedi all around in the galaxy. Jedi is not  common like flies, they are very special and rare. Star Wars is not only about jedi anyway.

 Easy to unlock, or one-click-to-get jedi, hahh. How about that "jedi's life is a sacrifice"? And the hard training? It has zero immersion if everybody and their mother is a jedi. Easy things get boring fast anyway. And if you want to be the all mighty jedi without putting the time and effort into it, you should just play a single players game like KOTOR, or Jedi Academy.

the NGE showed me what a star war world full of jedi look like and i did not like that at all, so even a "new" star wars mmo in the time line of the old republic will not make me jump up and down and waiting to play that game. i was happy with swg when it followed the time line of the "old" movies and seeing a jedi was super rare and unique. the "new' star wars movies only made people forget that SWG was set in the time when all jedi were DEAD and bringing them all back just killed the game.

if they had just kept the holo grind and made jedi rare i would still be a bounty hunter in that game today trying to hunt them down but i fell for there trick and did the village quest to be a jedi and regert that ever since.

Call me an RP jerk who doesn't give a damn about your average fanboy gamer that just wants to flare up a saber and play Jedi, but I think there should be some serious difficulties to being a Jedi or even a Dark Jedi.  There are codes and consequences for both sides.

In KOTOR, there was the Force Meter which showed how light/dark you were... when you play out of your role, you're 'penalized' and when you play your role, you're rewarded.  I'm not offerning an exact solution here, but I do think that it shouldn't be easy to become a Jedi - in fact, I think it should be an almost 'unattractive' offering to most people who want to play around in the Star Wars Universe...

Or maybe I'm just taking it too seriously right now because I'm tired of children with glowsticks running around.

...Anyhoo, in case anyone missed the post I made in the middle of the night... I'll repost in this thread:

It's kind of an oldie but a goodie especially if you missed it and are looking forward to the 'Kotor MMORPG'.

Download the interview HERE: http://www.eucantina.net/media/EUCast%20-%20%20Cantina%20Chat%20with%20Drew%20Karpyshyn.mp3

And fast forward to 33rd minute.

Some quotes from the interview - which of course don't directly verify the KOTOR MMORPG

"I would love to give you guys sneak exclusive information."

"There's a lot of information out there - I think people have a pretty good idea of what's going on."

"I've seen 'stuff' and I think it's pretty impressive and I think people are going to be pretty happy and pretty excited when it finally comes public"

Enjoy :)

BTW: For those unfamiliar with Drew Karpyshyn's work, he's the writer responsible for KOTOR 1 for BioWare as well as Mass Effect, as well as a few Star Wars novels and much more. Check out his website at: http://www.drewkarpyshyn.com/games.htm  

Originally posted by DeaconX

Call me an RP jerk who doesn't give a damn about your average fanboy gamer that just wants to flare up a saber and play Jedi, but I think there should be some serious difficulties to being a Jedi or even a Dark Jedi.  There are codes and consequences for both sides.

In KOTOR, there was the Force Meter which showed how light/dark you were... when you play out of your role, you're 'penalized' and when you play your role, you're rewarded.  I'm not offerning an exact solution here, but I do think that it shouldn't be easy to become a Jedi - in fact, I think it should be an almost 'unattractive' offering to most people who want to play around in the Star Wars Universe...

Or maybe I'm just taking it too seriously right now because I'm tired of children with glowsticks running around.

...Anyhoo, in case anyone missed the post I made in the middle of the night... I'll repost in this thread:

It's kind of an oldie but a goodie especially if you missed it and are looking forward to the 'Kotor MMORPG'.

Download the interview HERE: http://www.eucantina.net/media/EUCast%20-%20%20Cantina%20Chat%20with%20Drew%20Karpyshyn.mp3

And fast forward to 33rd minute.

Some quotes from the interview - which of course don't directly verify the KOTOR MMORPG

"I would love to give you guys sneak exclusive information."

"There's a lot of information out there - I think people have a pretty good idea of what's going on."

"I've seen 'stuff' and I think it's pretty impressive and I think people are going to be pretty happy and pretty excited when it finally comes public"

Enjoy :)

 

BTW: For those unfamiliar with Drew Karpyshyn's work, he's the writer responsible for KOTOR 1 for BioWare as well as Mass Effect, as well as a few Star Wars novels and much more. Check out his website at: http://www.drewkarpyshyn.com/games.htm  

 

Best post of the thread so far.