Speaking at the DICE summit, BioWare’s Greg Zeschuk has gone on record saying that Blizzard’s massively popular MMO, World of Warcraft, is the touchstone for developing StarWars: The Old Republic.
According to Furiousfanboys Zeschuk said, “It is a touchstone. It has established standards, it’s established how you play an MMO. 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.”
Whether or not this is a good thing remains to be seen. On one hand, one could argue that there is no room for a StarWars themed WoW-clone in the MMO-sphere, but on the other hand, 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 7 years.
StarWars: The Old Republic is due out sometime this year, and will be released exclusively for Windows.
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