Lucasarts/BioWare game could be "Star Wars The Old Republic"

[ManaByte]

Lucasfilm registered a trademark for "The Old Republic" and "Star Wars The Old Republic" in July of this year, and the trademark applies to:

IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Interactive entertainment software and accompanying instruction manuals sold as a unit, namely computer game software and manuals sold as a unit, video game software and manuals sold as a unit; video game software, computer game software, and pre-recorded CD-ROMs and DVDs featuring games, films, music, computer game software, and video game software; downloadable video game software and downloadable computer game software

IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Entertainment services provided on-line by means of global and local area networks, namely, providing interactive computer game software, interactive video game software and interactive computer games and interactive video games, all on-line by means of global and local area networks; providing news and information programming in the field of entertainment relating to interactive computer game software and interactive video game software over an electronic network; providing news programming in the field of entertainment relating to science fiction over an electronic network; fan club services

Expect someone on GAF to see this and take credit for it, but EB got it first.

[maxy]

I smell  Kotor MMO

[DJ_Tet]

No, those fuckers better not make an MMO before giving me KOTOR 3.

I've been patient, but now I need my next-gen KOTOR.

Or at least Mass Effect 2.

Not a fucking mmorpg

[cool breeze]

I really don't want an mmorpg.  At worst I want a Diablo style game, but I would most like KOTOR3

[ManaByte]

SOE am cry.

The funny thing is that BioWare Austin is made up of the people SOE/Lucasarts got rid of from the first SWG team. Basically it's launch SWG minus Koster. Rich Vogel, Kevin O'Hara; etc. from SWG are the ones heading up BioWare Austin. Brack got smart and went to Blizzard where he could nerf to his heart's content.

SOE buys EA Austin and gets the UO2 team and code. They make SWG for Lucasarts and it sucks.

BioWare buys the SOE Austin exiles and makes SWG2 for Lucasarts.

[Great Rumbler]

Someone actually holds a patent for selling a game and instruction manual in the same package? Really?

[ManaByte]

Someone actually holds a trademark for selling a game and instruction manual in the same package? Really?

The title of the game is usually on the instruction manual somewhere.

[maxy]

From gamespot

"LucasArts and BioWare invite you to attend the official unveiling of the game that's been rumored about for years," reads the invite before providing event-locale details. The gathering will be held in San Francisco on the afternoon of October 21, just more than a month after the release of the latest Star Wars game, The Force Unleashed. At a presentation at the Game Developers Conference this past March, producer Hayden Blackman said that the fast-selling game was settled on after a proposed third single-player KOTOR game was ruled out.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6198627.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;1

 

[Tabasco]

This is like The Next Generation.  You've got TV series(single player RPG) that everyone loves and wants more of, but they get greedy and go make movies no one wanted (MMO).

[Howard Alan Treesong]

wow, who could have EVER predicted that the Bioware Austin MMO was a Star Wars game based on KOTOR

:eyeroll

also, Manabyte, I hate to break it to you, but just cause you've been fired from multiple MMO GM positions doesn't make you an "insider"

feel free to keep pretending, though, it's highly entertaining

[DJ_Tet]

I caved and started buying FPS, but I swear to god if I can only have FPS or MMORPG I'll quit gaming.


I'm not buying an MMORPG, so you can take that to Howard, and you can shove it up his ass.

[Eel O'Brian]

also, Manabyte, I hate to break it to you, but just cause you've been fired from multiple MMO GM positions doesn't make you an "insider"

feel free to keep pretending, though, it's highly entertaining

TOO MEAN

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[Mr. Gundam]

a proposed third single-player KOTOR game was ruled out.

STUPID MMO's. ARGH!! I'M ANGRY!!

[DJ_Tet]

Look, I'm no manabyte, but I spend my money on Star Wars stuff.  Hell, I'm playing through The Force Unleashed on fucking DS right now.

But fuck you for devoting manpower to a fucking SW MMO when you could/should/have promised a 3rd KOTOR game.

Wait, can you fly tie fighters in the mmo?

No, I'm not buying it regardless.  Keep my tie fighters in TIE FIGHTER.

[Tauntaun]

I'd totally gay up to KOTOR3 but it better not suck huge monster ass like KOTOR2. 

[Tucah]

KOTOR3 would have been awesome.

KOTOR MMO will probably be okay, but I will only play one MMO and that will be WoW.

[Mr. Gundam]

But fuck you for devoting manpower to a fucking SW MMO when you could/should/have promised a 3rd KOTOR game.

KOTOR II totally hinted at a third game with Malek and the Exile meeting up beyond the Outer Rim.

 

[Smooth Groove]

Kotor 3 should just be an all out action-adventure game.   The RPG lite combat in the first two games got old quick. 

[Tabasco]

But fuck you for devoting manpower to a fucking SW MMO when you could/should/have promised a 3rd KOTOR game.

KOTOR II totally hinted at a third game with Malek and the Exile meeting up beyond the Outer Rim.

 

Revan fo.  I butt raped Malek with my light saber.

[Flannel Boy]

But fuck you for devoting manpower to a fucking SW MMO when you could/should/have promised a 3rd KOTOR game.

KOTOR II totally hinted at a third game with Malek and the Exile meeting up beyond the Outer Rim.

 

Revan fo.  I butt raped Malek with my light saber.

Ummm . . . I don't like the sound of that.

[ShogunOfFear]

Why can't they just do both?     How can they not do a KOTR3 after that cliffhanger ending in KOTR2?  I think the MMO could work especially if it is a prequel to KOTR taking place during The Mandalorian Wars.   

[maxy]

It is an MMO 99.999%,site that only covers MMOs got invited



http://www.massively.com/2008/10/07/check-out-our-bioware-lucasarts-announcement-invite/

[Yeti]

I want a new KOTOR game soooo bad, but not like this. NOT LIKE THIS. 

[TakingBackSunday]

Fuck, just give KotOR 3 to Obsidian again or something.  ANYTHING would be better than an KotOR MMO, even an Obsidian one.

[Jansen]

no mmo please

[DJ_Tet]

Kotor MMO > Kotor 3

If it's good it will last you years. If it's not we can pretend it never happened.

It may last you crackheads years, but some of us want a real game.

[WrikaWrek]

Fuck mmos. Seriously.

I don't want a life style, i want a game.

[Mr. Gundam]

no mmo please

Now this is a meme I can stand behind.