Star Wars KOTOR MMO - What will happen to Galaxies and the recourse for SGW WOW

I'm curious what you guys think will come from the announcement October 21st from Bioware, Lucas Arts and EA about their new MMO.

I know that it has not been officially confirmed that the game is a KOTOR MMO, but it certainly sounds like it will be.

My guess is this:

1. KOTOR MMO announced October 21st, 2008 and will be released sometime in 2009

2. Lucas Arts will either not renew SOE's Star Wars Galaxies license because of how terrible it has been peforming since the NGE or create a "classic" Pre-Cu, Pre-NGE server. I honestly think, though, that SWG will be discontinued in 2009 and players won't find out until the last minute.

3. My guess is that the KOTOR MMO will be released mid 2009 because Bioware licensed the Hero Engine back in 2005 to start work on it and that should of helped to speed stuff up.

4. If the KOTOR MMO is indeed released in mid 2009, I think that WOW will have about a 500k user attrition rate over to the new KOTOR MMO within the first 60 days of its release and that Stargate Worlds will lose at least 25% of their subcriber base because even though I am excited for Stargate Worlds, I honestly don't think it is going to be a great game. I am guessing Gamespot will give it about a 7.0

Anyone have any other ideas?

Stargate has a HUGE fanbase... don't underestimate it. It's looking pretty good (IMO). The classes are pretty unique in comparison to most MMOs. The armor looks pretty bad, but it's still pre-beta.

I probably won't get it, but I'm not a fan of MMOs. I still pay attention to it incase something sparks my desire to buy it.

stargate has a huge fanbase... the stargate MMO however, has looked terrible since day one, and has zero fanbase.... the game deserves to be underestimated. it looks like it was made in 1999....Roland123_basic

Well, you have to keep in mind that Stargate Worlds is still in Alpha / Stress Testing, it still has a long way to go to be finished.

uh... stargate worlds might as well not even come out because nobody even wants to play the game, it is looking absolutely terrible. second, there is no way KOTOR will have 10.5 million subs, im sorry.... what we are seeing with wow right now will probably never happen again in an MMO.Roland123_basic

He didn't say that a kotor mmo will have 10.5 million subs. He meant that 500k of WoWs current subs might go and try the kotor mmo. But I agree with that last like though "what we are seeing with wow right now will probably never happen again in an MMO."

stargate has a huge fanbase... the stargate MMO however, has looked terrible since day one, and has zero fanbase.... the game deserves to be underestimated. it looks like it was made in 1999....Roland123_basic

zero fanbase? That's a bit innaccurate. It does have a fanbase, how big of one, I don't know, but obviously not huge.

[QUOTE="Roland123_basic"]uh... stargate worlds might as well not even come out because nobody even wants to play the game, it is looking absolutely terrible. second, there is no way KOTOR will have 10.5 million subs, im sorry.... what we are seeing with wow right now will probably never happen again in an MMO.Vastano

He didn't say that a kotor mmo will have 10.5 million subs. He meant that 500k of WoWs current subs might go and try the kotor mmo. But I agree with that last like though "what we are seeing with wow right now will probably never happen again in an MMO."

I think MMO's potentials are unlimited, and WOW is just a start, wait till they go totally mainstream.

I hope we can see the day pretty much everybody is subscribed to a MMO, that'll be fun.

im looking forward to kotor mmo, but it wont surpass wow, atleast not at first it would take some time.. even if it is a really great game..

but i have high hopes for it.

and sgw performed horribly on my pc.

It doesn't really matter what rating gamespot give to a MMORPG, they just can't rate MMORPGs, there are too many factors for them to be fair.Ncsoftlover

Exactly. AoC got a great rating. 8.5 or something. And for the first part of the game, I'd agree. But after you find out the game is missing huge chunks of content, I would give it a far lower score. And PvP balance was pretty horrible at the time, not sure if it got any better as I quit after 2 months.

Stargate has a HUGE fanbase... don't underestimate it. It's looking pretty good (IMO). The classes are pretty unique in comparison to most MMOs. The armor looks pretty bad, but it's still pre-beta.

I probably won't get it, but I'm not a fan of MMOs. I still pay attention to it incase something sparks my desire to buy it.

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