With GDC coming sooner and sooner, the news about exactly what will happen there is beginning to flood out, and this tidbit of news was released without much fanfare. At GDC there is to be a session that is titled: "The Future of MMOs" with speakers ranging from Blizzard's VP of Game Design to one of the founders and General Manager of BioWare. Wait ... Founder of Bioware? Huh?
First and foremost, BioWare has never released an MMO, and this session is described as: "Several experienced MMO developers will discuss their respective visions for the future." Experienced, hmm, that's got to refer to that MMO that the "new studio", BioWare Austin, have been working on. If so, could that long-under-wraps MMO actually be the long rumored KOTOR MMO? The Lucasarts collaboration has been announced for a while now, could GDC be the time when these two pieces of information and one piece of speculation are finally put to rest in the form of a single game? We'll have to wait and see just what materializes out of this, but GDC is looking more and more interesting all the time.
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2-10-2008 @ 3:10PM
Deck said...
Oooo... oooo... This could be sexay!
Oh this is great news, I am hoping for the best!
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2-10-2008 @ 3:41PM
NukeAssault said...
What is the picture backwards?
Any who, can't wait to hear what they will say.
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2-10-2008 @ 4:02PM
terrence said...
It is. For a few reasons:
I couldn't find a picture of them at previous GDCs so I just used one from the Game Developers Choice Awards, and HOPED :) that the mirroring would mean no one would notice.
Picture just looked better with them facing that way.
Sorry.
2-10-2008 @ 9:27PM
NukeAssault said...
I see, well its no big deal. I was just curious. I suppose they do look better facing this way though.
2-10-2008 @ 5:20PM
Ryan said...
Mirrored? What?
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2-10-2008 @ 5:22PM
terrence said...
Come on man, i don't have the translator program, just tell me what it says and feel lucky that I even got the reference :)
2-10-2008 @ 5:23PM
terrence said...
And by mirrored I meant that I just used the "Flip Horizontal" option in Photoshop.
2-10-2008 @ 6:09PM
Anticrawl said...
I thought Bioware said the MMO they are developing with Lucasarts wasn't Star Wars themed...
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2-10-2008 @ 6:13PM
terrence said...
I hadn't heard this, but I sure hope not.
I've never gotten into any MMO before, but I'd buya KOToR MMO day one.
2-10-2008 @ 6:21PM
Mythor said...
Bioware hasn't released an MMO as yet so in no way are they experienced. There is a huge gap between fiddling around in development for a bit and actually getting the game in the hands of gamers and seeing if it flops.
I'm sure the Bioware guys would have interesting things to say about MMOs, but it's disrespectful to the genuine MMO experts to have them on as experts in the field when they've never really made one.
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2-10-2008 @ 6:37PM
Jestor Rodo said...
Rumors are flowing both ways . Bioware is one who will lead those forsaken by the mismanagement by SOE with SWG. And yet Lucas Arts claims that they will create the next Star Wars MMO on their own.
We await the GDC and the truth and of course everbody Loves that Jestor!
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2-10-2008 @ 11:01PM
outforprophets said...
Here's the closest thing Bioware has in terms of MMORPG experience:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights
Eh, kinda borderline MMO if you ask me.
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2-11-2008 @ 8:17AM
George Arauz said...
Obviously what ever they release for an MMO will be sick
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2-11-2008 @ 12:16PM
deviantpdx07 said...
What's up with people spelling it KOToR? Shouldn't it be KoTOR?
Knights of The Old Republic...KoTOR....
wtf, srysly.....KoTOR dude...drives me nuts....
/whatever, just weird thing that bothers me lol
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2-11-2008 @ 5:02PM
BowserUSC said...
Yeah, I was wondering what was up with that as well. Probably so many people messed it up so its now aleetspeak word (i'm not typing it the other way, I hate leetspeak, just a bunch of illiterate nerds and children).