The Old Republic won't break any "WoW rules"

[Tinman]

Bioware won’t “break WoW rules” making Star Wars: The Old Republic

World of Warcraft is The Old Republic’s “touchstone”

[Tank]

fuckall interest in this game just went to non existant

[Voicy]

Meh. I'm still keen for this one - especially with the concentration on voice acting etc. As long as it's character centered and not a mindless grind withoutactual mandatory / storyline / character development quests then I'm cool with it.

oh and Tincan, you made a bit of a chronological blunder:

we can understand BioWare wanting to take advantage of certain design principles which have kept millions of gamers coming back to WoW for the past 10 years.

Vanilla WoW was releases in 2004 if I'm not mistaken.

[shadowfox]

Every MMO that comes out, I play and look at it. And if they break any of the WoW rules, in my book that’s pretty dumb

So ... WOW clone but using a Star Wars theme. Nice ... reskinning job.

That statement of his though, it's so retarded it doesn't bear thinking about. The last thing you need after 7 years' worth of a single game's dominance and a market that's suddenly becoming saturated, is a clone. Gamers are demanding something new.

Bring it on ArenaNet - they're breaking all the rules on this one, and if the amount of drool coming through my network cable is any indication, then breaking the mould isn't dumb.

[uduwar]

Bioware, are going to use the same design principals but I really hope they use their epic story telling skills. I would like to play through a mmo game where I don't need to grind to make levels, where it feels like I am actually playing a story line.
Quite excited about this, and hey if it fails you just cancel the subscription

[OmegaFenix]

I'll wait for previews or reviews before casting my stone. His statement could have been used out of context or something.

[shadowfox]

I'll wait for previews or reviews before casting my stone. His statement could have been used out of context or something.

True enough - and urdu is right in that Bioware has epic story-telling skills. But thus far, Bioware has only been tested in the general RPG arena, an MMO is a whole different monster.

I might have been a little over-cynical in branding it a reskinning job My interpretation of his statement is simply telling me that Bioware isn't going to go out and challenge anything, try and break new bounds, or anything like that. And that's dissapointing from a developer who is arguably the best at doing RPGs and who pretty much defined the genre as we know it today.

[Tank]

let me just clarify my stance, the only reason i had some interest in the game. Bioware doing the dev work. that's it, because i hate the source material.

yes i said it, I hate Star Wars. i also hate Star Trek.

[OmegaFenix]

True enough - and urdu is right in that Bioware has epic story-telling skills. But thus far, Bioware has only been tested in the general RPG arena, an MMO is a whole different monster.

I might have been a little over-cynical in branding it a reskinning job My interpretation of his statement is simply telling me that Bioware isn't going to go out and challenge anything, try and break new bounds, or anything like that. And that's dissapointing from a developer who is arguably the best at doing RPGs and who pretty much defined the genre as we know it today.

We will have to wait and see.

[OmegaFenix]

let me just clarify my stance, the only reason i had some interest in the game. Bioware doing the dev work. that's it, because i hate the source material.

yes i said it, I hate Star Wars. i also hate Star Trek.

/Dies