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[malace_ixo]

I love their games; hands-down my favorite dev. I'm not exactly sure what kind of investment they've made individually on TOR but I've heard it said something like a $100 billion's been put into it. I'm sure LucasArts has probably put forth a big part of that but that's a massive undertaking.
 
WoW dominates the MMO market and everyone wants to nip at their heels and get a piece now that they've seen how many paying customers show up for the online community. star wars is a huge franchise so they must be banking on a big fanbase and Bioware's reputation for great stories to somehow pull out something phenomonal.

I wonder if they'll be able to make as big of a dent in that niche as they're hoping for. My guess is they won't make enough profit for TOR to be seen as a success. For my personal taste I might have liked them to wait for the industry to provide better technical resources to get a next-gen flavor out of their graphics before going MMO.

KoTOR 3 got dropped, probably around suggestions from LucasArts that they felt it was time to take a plunge. Who can fail to infer how carefully they must have eyed WoW? I think it's a mistake. I'm confident TOR will be an awesome game. Bioware never fails to deliver. But with how much they must have put into it I don't think they'll get enough of a return for this to be anything but red ink. I'm filled with the impression that KoTOR 3 would have been a more sound business decision. It would have gone far to advance the reputation of the franchise and continued to draw in fresh faces as we all become more acclimated to the MMO world.

Idk. We'll have to see. I've been poring over everything I could find since the game was announced. It may prove to surpass my expectations. But a $100 billion is no light investment. A next-gen KoTOR would have killed

[Stanley Woo]

Not really KotOR related.

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