After months of rumours and badly-kept secrets, we finally have the official announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic. As expected, it turns out to be an MMO, and set in the Star Wars universe; more specifically, the KotOR era.
We’re just a few hours out of the great revelation and the official site has gone online. Information is flying all across the Internets and we bring you the lowdown on what The Old Republic is going to be all about.
The publisher for the Stargate television series MMO game Stargate Worlds has announced that it will be releasing expansion content for free to subscribers while time progresses. In a recent interview they said that they are already working on post-launch content like new worlds, creature and storylines. Plus more character orientated updates like new abilities, ways to explore the universe and armour sets (so no horse armour Oblivion style transaction).
They mentioned that those kinds of additional content would be called “seasons” but there would also be things like the inclusion of Atlantis or those characters as a possibilities but big updates like that would be sold in a retail box. The sales line is that the publisher wants players to get new content for continuing to play and not just patches. This however isn’t really news or anything shocking since every MMO going adds new material and has episode based content updates. City of Heroes is a good example of free story updates and World of Warcraft has enough sold in a box updates to make The Sims blush. The real news is the current estimated release date is still early 2009 with a beta expected before that date, most likely before the end of this year.
The game will be released on PC only so no console users allowed unlike early expectations of a 360-PC crossover title.
The game that was flip flopping all over the place, apparently is actually being made. Yeah and it doesn’t look that bad either!
I honestly can’t wait. The game takes place 30 years after Nemesis. You get to work your way up to Captain. You get to control your character across planets, go aboard your ship, and then fly it around space.
Create your own race or go with a race we’ve already seen (Humans, Vulcans, and everyone else). Customize your ships and characters. At launch you can be part of Star Fleet or the Klingon Empire. Combat, exploration, tactical actions are all here.
The graphics look solid for an MMO.
Still no news on when it will be released. Below is the video conference held by the developer Cryptic Studios at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas.
