This one I have high hopes for, given that it's coming from BioWare. Granted, MMOs are a different beast than single player RPGs, but BioWare seems to be planning around that pretty well, given the article on IGN. I particularly like the "each class has their own story arc"

With BW behind the title and pretty much a free hand things should be great. I'm concerned due to the EA merger however. It seems that BW is changing and going to the darkside as a result.

ME too. i have already signed up for the Sith faction.

On a side note, I so wish SD would develop a MMO title. Hell it would be neat to see a NMoM title like that in the near future - hint, hint...

I'm a little worried that one of the SOE guys is a big name in the new development.  I never played SWG, but I heard many horror stories.

Offical Website

www.swtor.com

And before you start saying, it looks cartoony, it looks like WOW, just remember that NONE of the pics are final, they are in early development, its pretty much just concept, expect it to change ALOT.

But from listening to the pod cast with them saying "SWTOR has more content then all Bioware games put together" really gets me jumping. Honestly we got atleast 2 years more before it can even be considered close to being done. I'd rather have this game not come out at all then come out broken.

If this game succeeds and I have all the faith in Bioware that it will, it will most likely give WOW a hard time to compete, I hope so, WOW is a disgrace.

even though i am very excited about this game..like we know, Galaxies sucked, and WOW has had it's day (not that i thought much of it anyway) i still would have prefered KOTOR3.

Given that seems more and more likely a pipe dream i am more than happy to except this instead.

I'd say at least 12~18 months before we see a beta though....

Yep I remember it well and like you have not seen anything about it is some time. I was sort of hoping that the NMoM and Societies projects ended up getting merged.

I haven't read the Gamespot article, but the IGN one talks a lot about how they are approaching development and transition from single player RPGs to MMOs while trying to preserve the feel. If they manage to do it well, it has extremely good potential. They say they've had writers working on it for years already, which is reassuring because let's face it, not all the Star Wars stories written for games were good

It's still a long long ways off and it's way too early to guess how good it will be, but it definitely has good potential.

I don't think that a majority of the Warhammer people are SW people as well. I think a major section of WoW is but that is just based on sheer volume.

WAR has PvP players in the bag, doesn't sound like KOTORMMO is going to pull that away.

Would've preferred KOTOR III with internet multiplayer storyline, not as another MMO.  Most people can only sink 15 bucks a month into one of those things without feeling dirty.

Warhammer 40k MMO comes out, I'll be playing it for sure, especially if Mythic does it like they've done WHFantasy.

Totally be rolling a Tau.

FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

I think a heavy focus on story and the RPG elements, especially regarding RVR will make SWTOR a worthy title. If they go PVP, without a killer system in place as the main focus, I think it will fail.