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After the “big reveal” at the San Francisco LucasArts office, we were given the chance for Q&A with BioWare and LucasArts on details for the KOTOR MMO. Which was kind of silly, since they largely refused to answer any of the questions with anything besides “We can’t talk about that yet.”
So here’s what we don’t know: —The level cap —The release date —The type or total number of classes (so far, only Jedi and Sith have been officially announced) —If or what kind of vehicles and spaceships users will be able to own/access/build —If or which races will be faction-specific —What kind of business models the MMO will employ (subscription, micro transactions, etc.)
As for what we do know, you’ll have to hit the jump to find out.
LucasArts and BioWare are holding a press event in San Francisco today to reveal their next massively multiplayer online game, known as Star Wars: The Old Republic. The title has already been formally announced as a PC release, a successor to the Knights of the Old Republic role-playing games and not designed as a replacement for Star Wars Galaxies. We’re there, liveblogging the midichlorians out of the thing, furiously typing away as if our friends were about to be crushed to death by an Imperial trash compactor if we didn’t update fast enough. Hit the jump for the thrilling, up-to-the-second liveblog of the event.
As EA confirmed today, the next Knights of the Old Republic is going to be a MMO. From Portfolio.com:
“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 rumoured Knights of the Old Republic Online? “Yes”, he said.
Watch out World of Warcraft, you just might have some serious competition here.
EA to Play in Knights of the Old Republic [Portfolio]
Citing a source “close to BioWare”, gaming site Primotech writes that the recently acquired developer may be revisiting the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic universe for an upcoming massively multiplayer online game. The developer’s Austin-based spin-off dev house, publicly announced in March of 2006, has already confirmed it is hard at work on an unspecified MMO, but had released little in the way of details since its birth announcement. The rumoured Knights of the Old Republic MMO would obviously be set in a time frame with a comfortable distance from its Sony Online Entertainment published sister, Star Wars Galaxies, so potential crossover would be (hopefully) nil.
Despite how wonderfully good (and logical) such a project would be, consider it rumour for now until we hear more.
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