Bioware and Lucas Star Wars rumours surface
THE DARK, satanic rumour mills are grinding out a yarn that Lucas Arts and Bioware are conspiring together to bring about a massively multiplayer online role-playing game of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
According to GameSpot, both Bioware and Lucas Arts refused to comment on the project, but now have admitted that they are working together on something.
The pair have launched a cobranded Web site, www.LucasArtsBioWare.com and say they are working on something big.
Neither side said anything about the forthcoming game, only that details will be unveiled at a later date.
Bioware is now owned by Electronic Arts and when that outfit bought it for $860 million earlier in the month, pundits said that the price was a bit steep. However EA came back and said that the reason it had to pay so much was because of an unnamed MMORPG in the works at Bioware which is due to appear in 2009. ยต
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Isn't there already an online game with Jedi running amok in a vast persistent universe ?
Oh yeah, there is, but nobody plays it anymore because it sucks.
So Bioware thinks it can overcome the hurdle of suckiness inherent to almost all Star Wars games and produce something of interest ?
Fine. Good luck to them.
Just one thing though : beware that if you don't include Jedi and Sith, you'll have the fanboyz ranting endlessly that you cannot play with lightsabers, and if you do, you'll have them ranting that EVERYBODY has a lightsaber.
How you're going to get around that will be fun to watch - from afar.
I know everyone is jumping for joy at this news, finally the chance for a good Star Wars online game. However, no where in any of these articles from Bioware/Lucas, have they mentioned Star Wars, or KOTOR.

I hope they are making a Star Wars online, but lets not get over excited yet.
I am betting on an Indiana Jones MMORPG :)

Most Star Wars games do suck. I blame Lucas, hell only two and a half out of six movies was any good.
I thought Bioware turned down KOTOR2 and NWN2 because they wanted to develop their own game universes, like Mass Effect and Dragon age.
Wasn't Bioware made part of the EA collective? so should it not say Lucas and EA?
I'm just saying, people might want to curb their enthusiasm about the results.