Magister Lajciak

I doubt that making it in a more "realistic" style -id est the other two KotOR games- would task people's PC too much. Poor people are also unlikely to be able to afford a game with monthly fees - unless they are very, very motivated indeed to play it. Not true. A small monthly cost is much easier to swallow than a large upfront payment for high end computer components. Depends on how small "small" is. A year's subscription of WoW would cost you $180 (not including the initial game cost), for which you could buy a fairly high-end card (9800GTX) and plop it into any run-of-the mill Dell machine and turn it into a Crysis-capable monster. Now if we're talking $5 a month, then yes, your comparison is valid. Indeed - plus also bear in mind that the game usually does have an initial cost as well!

It's interesting you mention this as Blizzard has taken it a step in a more restrictive direction -- completely removing LAN play from Diablo 3 in order to help prevent piracy. Want multiplayer? You'll have to play through Battle.net. I don't know if they have / will do the same with Sarcraft 2 though. Really? I hadn't heard about that. Blizzard is just full of good ideas these days, aren't they? I don't like it either (I don't like it at all in fact), but it is still far better than EA's DDRM, since it impacts only the longevity of the multiplayer component of the game. Unlike EA's DRM, I will probably not pass up the game because of this factor.

It is not certain, but it makes sense to me that Revan is the Sith Emperor. Then they can spring the news on the unsuspecting (or very suspecting) SWOR players as a major plot twist or just keep everybody tantilized with information pointing in that direction, but not outright confirming it.

I will play it if they add an extensive single player, offline, non-pay-to-play, DDRM-free component to the game.

Unfortunately, there will be only the SWOR MMO.

Repeat after me: Revan is most likely the mysterious Sith Emperor, Revan is most likely the mysterious Sith Emperor, Revan is most likely the mysterious Sith Emperor, Revan is most likely the mysterious Sith Emperor, Revan...

In many jurisdictions, EULAs are not legally binding.

Interestingly enough, I have recently become much more reluctant to read Storm of Zehir previews/reviews due the the fear of story spoilers.

I think Revan might well be the life-prolonged hidden Emperor of the Sith Empire.

Or we can assume he is the new long-lived hidden Emperor of the Sith Empire.

I have a question about the overland map. Is there any possibility to teleport without traversing it? I mean, that would be a great implementation of the teleport spell, wouldn't it?

That's very... interesting. It seems that legal systems are gradually being extended to virtual worlds.

I have a question about the amount of content in the game: BioWare mentioned that the game has more content than all its other games put together and is like making KOTOR 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Does this amount of content apply to the story of each class, or is that the amount of total content altogether spread over X number of classes? If it is the latter, than the amount of real content per class will be about the same as in a single-player game, which does not make it worthwhile as an MMO for those who like the single-playthrough forms their cannon paradigm, as it does for me. Not that I personally like MMOs anyway, but still an interesting question, I think.

Yes, this does seem pretty likely. Or if not, it does seem likely that Revan will make an appearance somehow during the lifetime of the MMO or its expansions.

Edit: Meaning that the MMO will appeal to KOTOR singleplayer fans. I doubt it in general, but some might like it.

I doubt that making it in a more "realistic" style -id est the other two KotOR games- would task people's PC too much. Poor people are also unlikely to be able to afford a game with monthly fees - unless they are very, very motivated indeed to play it.

Yes, and the limited number of people who could have leaked it might make it possible to catch them.

Thanks for the link!

This MMO does not bother me as I thought it would. Same here - I guess it's because I have expected the bad news for a long time now.

It is entirely possible that by the time the Star Wars MMO actually comes out, World of Warcraft will be in decline. These games, no matter how huge, don't last forever.

I am no madam! My apologies then! Given your screen-name, however, perhaps I can be forgiven for assuming that initially. Take it easy! I made that mistake once myself... Since then she...damn he doesn't use female avatars anymore. Heh, good to know I am not the only one!

Maybe it can with a game that was leaked so early.

Not that I know of. There was a post/article that they were at least trying to track them down.

So did they catch the leakers yet?

No, we'll be starting at Level 3, but the search doesn't spit out any developer I could quote, so I might be mistaken. Yes, we do begin at level 3. It was stated in one of the previews.