EA confirms KOTOR 3: it's an MMO

[fastpunk]

And guess who's developing it? Yup, Bioware. There have been rumors about this for a while now. Read all about it here:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6194664.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;2

 

[Texas Red]

Ah yes, the great publisher mentality. They made great sums of money off of both KotORs and instead of continuing, they go ahead and try to enter an overcrowded market with huge competition, where there was almost none before for console RPGs. How many games have tried this and failed?

 

[Chefe]

That's great to hear. They're taking everything that made KOTOR unique and throwing it out the window to give us another lulzy grindfest.

I wonder... does anyone really care about this?

 

[Shoelip]

Oh boy! Bioware is making a MMORPG! That's great! I'm sure it will be great thanks to all their experience making single player RPGs!

This is going to get them terminated. I know it. EA is going to force them to make something they aren't good at, it'll fail, and they'll shut them down. That's what happens... it's what always fucking happens. Bioware's first flop will be their last. Fucking EA.

 

[Jaesun]

Not surprised. Don't care. Won't play it.

I WANT MY FUKKEN KOTOR III!

 

[Chefe]

Do you ever stop to wonder when small development studios will realize EA just likes eating them up and spitting them out? Did we learn nothing from history, Bioware?

 

[MetalCraze]

On the bright side Bio won't rape Obsidian's storyline with turning it into yet another SW fairy tale.

KotOR3 will fail most likely. Many factors - MMOGrindfest guys don't care about some console/PC non-twitchy RPG with some kind of depth so there won't be much of the interest from them, vice versa for RPG players, we already have SW Galaxies and Bio guys have no experience in MMOG's. Plus there are tons of MMOGs out there. It will be hard to find a niche.

 

[larpingdude14]

ITT: i dont have the money to pay for the subscription fee..Bwahh!

 

[Comrade Hamster]

This is going to get them terminated. I know it. EA is going to force them to make something they aren't good at, it'll fail, and they'll shut them down. That's what happens... it's what always fucking happens. Bioware's first flop will be their last. Fucking EA.

I don't really mind if BioWare goes belly up anymore because they've sold out hard. Here's to hoping for another wildly successful SW:G!

 

[Shoelip]

On the bright side Bio won't rape Obsidian's storyline with turning it into yet another SW fairy tale.

KotOR3 will fail most likely. Many factors - MMOGrindfest guys don't care about some console/PC non-twitchy RPG with some kind of depth so there won't be much of the interest from them, vice versa for RPG players, we already have SW Galaxies and Bio guys have no experience in MMOG's. Plus there are tons of MMOGs out there. It will be hard to find a niche.

SWG is terrible. And the funny thing is, it used to be awesome, but Sony changed everything about the game in order to make it more like WoW. Now it's just a hollow shell.

 

[racofer]

Scchhhhwweeeeeeettttttttttt!!!!

My wallet thanks you EA/Biowhore, another game I will not have to purchase from you.

 

[Zomg]

Ah yes, the great publisher mentality. They made great sums of money off of both KotORs and instead of continuing, they go ahead and try to enter an overcrowded market with huge competition, where there was almost none before for console RPGs. How many games have tried this and failed?

Try to imagine being a suit that has the rights to the most epochally popular nerd license ever and seeing WoW, a spinoff of a game from a nearly dead genre, originally a shitty Games Workshop ripoff, make billions of dollars.

 

[racofer]

But now Biowhore will go into direct confrontation with Blizzard, and honestly, I doubt they will succeed. WoW is just to big of a monster to compete. Would this be the last breath from Biowhore before succumbing to the WoW side of the Force?

 

[Relayer71]

Wasn't ONE SW MMORPG enough?

Bleh.

 

[Raapys]

I don't know, I think this will appeal to a slightly different market than WoW. There's a distinct lack of sci-fi MMORPGs, it's just the fantasy genre that is crowded.

Now that the original SWG is ruined, I'm not completely against a game to replace it; especially one set in the Kotor timeline.

Only real bad things I see about this is that 1. EA is involved and 2. This probably means we won't see a real, single-player KOTOR3.

 

[Pegultagol]

KOTOR3: The Revan Clonez

 

[Jaesun]

They don't need to out do WOW's 10,000,000 subscribers. If they make a good enough game, they could make quite a profitable one.

 

[WalterKinde]

I guess Star Wars Galaxies and The Matrix MMO didn't teach by example.
MMO's based on movies don't make money.
And before someone chimes in with Age of Conan (based on the Robert E. Howard series and not the Schwarzenegger movies) and Lord of the Rings Online.
Conan is newly launched and Rings is not doing as well as they had hoped.

 

[racofer]

KOTOR3: The Revan Clonez

Yea.... I can already imagine the heated discussions on Revan vs. Exile and people using their characters as evidence against one another........

 

[Unradscorpion]

I hope this won't turn into a bunch of "They are raping the lore" threads few years later, like the case is with Fallout 3.

 

[RK47]

I guess Star Wars Galaxies and The Matrix MMO didn't teach by example.
MMO's based on movies don't make money.
And before someone chimes in with Age of Conan (based on the Robert E. Howard series and not the Schwarzenegger movies) and Lord of the Rings Online.
Conan is newly launched and Rings is not doing as well as they had hoped.

K Online is based on KotOR the game.

 

[racofer]

Which will be advertised with "Star Wars" in a huge golden gay font......

 

[Dire Roach]

The target audience here is Star Wars fans. There is no reason for this game to NOT be a financial success.

 

[WalterKinde]

At this rate how long do you figure until Ea Bioware closes their doors or gets absorbed into a section of the EA juggernaut?

 

[Castanova]

To all you people crying foul at EA over this - I'm willing to lay down money that BioWare had this in development before the EA deal. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if BioWare agreed to the EA deal in part because they wanted more support for this massive project.