star wars mmo the old republic release date!!!

12/20/11!!!

here's the article

http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20110924

it's a comin! start your engines! i am stoked, bioware hasn't let down ever and blizzard is laggin on d3 so this is gonna be big. hopefully by then i'll have beat arkham city lol.

 

Love Star Wars, but will be avoiding as I think the costs are too high and also my wife may leave me if I join !

 

Yeaaaaa. Given how fat I got when I was playing WOW...not gonna touch this.

Tempting though. Gosh.

 

Argh, I don't know what to think about this game. I want to try it before buying it. I'm completely 50/50 on my decision to play. I haven't yet seen any features of the game I really love, and I HATE paying monthly for a game. It feels like such a damn ripoff! My friends are begging me to get this game for group online playing, but.....meh, I dunno.

 

they lost me with the tacked on shooter-style space combat.

 

o man, i just went through the classes and trailers and it's bringing me back to how fun wow was when i started it. to get in from the ground up could be really cool, plus having a personal starship and pvp elements.... i think i'm gonna have a new hobby for a while in 2012.

edit... looks like a pre-order will get me in early access, + i have 26 bucks in credit at amazon at the moment. so thats just 35 bucks for the first month. starting to look like a no-brainer.

 

i hope it doesn't suck like every mmo i've played in the last 8 or so years. every new mmo is fun for about 3-6 months then i cancel. maybe it's just me though.

 

While there's nothing inherently wrong with WoW, I'm losing interest. Most of the people that I really enjoyed playing with have moved on. SW:ToR looks to be the game that may suck them back in. I'm looking forward to it.

 

Not sure why you brought that up, but I don't play WoW either. Not to mention, WoW isn't based on a franchise about traveling from planet to planet in unique spaceships, having battles in space along the way.

and if you are trying to say SWTOR is like WoW, then I definitely won't be playing it.

 

wow did so many things right. with every mmo i play if they dont have a user interface at least as good as wow i almost rage quit immediately. there are just so many things that have been accomplished with games now that i expect, and if a game doesn't deliver i cant stand playing them. with that being said it doesn't leave much room for innovation.

i find it funny that every game basically copys wow and does terrible. the progression on wow now and new games is so boring. it's literally the same thing with +5 tacked on to your lvl and every piece of gear and i can't stand it.

where's my next everquest?

 

if anyone else here is interested in loosely coordinating a tfp jedi or sith guild or whatever it would be called in star wars i would be open to that. i don't have a lot of pc gamer friends.

 

I think the sad thing is there is no way you could expect something else. With EA as the backer, there is no way they would allow SWTOR to stray too far away from whats proven to make money, even by adding innovative (or at least fun) space combat. Which seems to be the problem with the vast majority of MMOs on the market.

And yes, I have played WoW, but it didn't take long to realize how limited and repetitive it is.