SW:TOR - Estimated investment by EA = $150mil :o
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SS look cool, but thats a lot of pennies for what i personally think wont make that much back despite the license and devs i do feel it wont topple wow.
You under estimate the star wars fans young padawan.
WoW has a huge advantage. They were first. Not the first MMO, but the first to embrace "mainstream" players.
And thanks to their advertising, if you ask the average person on the street what an MMO is, they'd likely say "isn't that World of Warcraft?"
It's likely that WoW will only be toppled when Blizzard shuts down the servers.
And thanks to their advertising, if you ask the average person on the street what an MMO is, they'd likely say "isn't that World of Warcraft?"
It's likely that WoW will only be toppled when Blizzard shuts down the servers.
We have not really heard much about what this game will entail really considering it will come out next year. But I have no doubt that it will be brilliant (it's Bioware). In regards to the assumption that it will be heavily instanced they stated recently that 90% will be open world including some open PVP and that the 10% instancing will be for the main storyline kind of the way AoC did the same thing.
I found AoC to be too heavily instanced myself, every zone instanced, multiple instances of instances etc. Personal preference of course, but I certainly wouldnt call AoC "open world". 10% instancing doesnt really sound much like the "more instancing that most mmos" that Blaine Christine mentioned.
As I say, we can only wait and see how it will be as you correctly mention we really dont know much about the game at all. I'm still predicting heavy instancing and an STO/ncsoft-like feel to the instancing. Hope I'm wrong for those people who play it, really do, but its one of the only ways I can see of them being able to implement the whole your choice matters/all npcs voiced/you affect how things unravel type of thing.
If that was true SWG even after NGE would still be a contender.
One of the greatest crimes ever unleashed on an MMO title.
(along with Trammel for UO and ToA for Daoc
)I meant as per the AoC Destiny line. Bioware stated last week 90% will be open world (but it will not be a Vanguard type environment if that's what you are driving at). So no worries there really .. the worries are here:
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/367/feature/4104
and the bit that is worrying is where he says ... "The market will continue to evolve. I think you will see more big AAA MMOs with micro-transactions."
Subscription and micro-transactions look quite likely.
Ah, see now its the vanguard type of environment that I consider "open world", anything else is just instanced to me. Maybe thats what the SWTOR producer meant when he said the game would have more instancing than most MMOs.
And EA can drop all the money on voice acting they like.. WoW still got Mr T first
And Ozzy, Prince of Being Off His Face All The Time.
What other MMO advertises like Blizzard does with WoW? None of them. That's one of the reasons why Warcraft is a household name, and the rest are playing catchup.