Star Wars: The Old Republic launches Dec. 20
Star Wars: The Old Republic will be arriving in 2011... just barely. The hotly anticipated MMO will launch in North America on December 20th, with a European launch following on December 22nd.
Star Wars: The Old Republic will be arriving in 2011... just barely. The hotly anticipated MMO will launch in North America on December 20th, with a European launch following on December 22nd.
"We appreciate the patience of the millions of fans who have been waiting for the game’s release," Dr. Greg Zeschuk, co-founder of BioWare, told audiences at Eurogamer Expo today. "When we launch this groundbreaking MMO with world class storytelling this holiday season, we hope you will agree that it was worth the wait."
While the game officially launches on December 20th, you'll be able to unlock "Early Game Access" by pre-ordering the game at "participating retailers." Once again, EA emphasizes that access will be limited at launch.
Included in the box will be 30 days of access to the game. The Old Republic is being anticipated as one of the last MMOs to use a subscription model instead of the increasingly popular free-to-play scheme. After the first 30 days, players can choose to pay $14.99 per month, or pre-pay $41.97 for 3 months, or $77.94 for 6 months.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic will be arriving in 2011... just barely. The hotly anticipated MMO will launch in North America on December 20th, with a European launch following on December 22nd.-
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Gonk : TOR :: Dognose : DNF
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except both those people love the games, cool story though
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PREORDER PREORDERED
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what date is the early entry?
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It depends how early you pre-ordered the game because it's like a queue system, they haven't announced how early it will be though. My guess is maybe up to a week early.
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I could be wrong but I thought they are saying that isn't right now. Because I also saw that originally, but now there is no mention of that on their site and they aren't saying anything about it. Maybe that is still what it is though and they just aren't confirming it.
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There has never been anything official announced about early entry other than that it's 100% first come, first served. Nothing about when it starts or how long it'll be.. but they did say that it doesn't matter which version you bought, just what date you entered the preorder code on their website.
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That's what she said.
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is it good?
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It sure seems like the games that offer lifetime at launch are the ones that fail and go f2p
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hahaha
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oh god that bit at the end gets me every time I see it
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hahahah awesome
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What is going on there...I can't tell who the player is, the guy with the mustache?
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They finally tightened up level 3
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The overall absurdity of the scene. The Jedi allows himself to be seduced, his R2 unit fried, and then some gay Twiilek runs up to him and stabs him with a hypo, all the while he just stands there.
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The plot of that sence is fine, it's just really poorly put together. The player doesn't react at all to two dudes running up, one of whom has a gun that he shoots his robot with. He does turn around a little when the dude sticks him with the needle but other than the he looks like he doesn't notice or care that he's being assaulted. Also his fu-machu facial hair makes it look even dumber, but that's obviously something that the player did. Maybe he just is exhausted, so much that he doesn't react when people shoot his little robot buddy in the face.
I mean it's an MMO so it's expected (well at least by me) that they have to spread their resources around more than you would if you were making a single player RPG so you can't make everything as polished but it still looks dumb.-
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Yeah, people have said that the Republic Jedi scenes are pretty bad. Each character class has a separate storyline with a different writing team behind it. From what I understand, the Imperial Agent line is similar to Alpha Protocol (which is good) and both the Jedi Knight and Jedi Consular are on par with the movie prequels.
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What's the significance of 29:30?
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Good lord, this game looks bad. RANCOR BONER CANCELED.
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I'm betting all my money there will be another delay that will push the release out to 2012.
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Yeah probably, it will be a miracle if they hit the date and a huge accomplishment.
We will see, I hope it happens. Its weird one of my sources said 2012 and the other said the same date posted here, so its hard to know which will hit (I am leaning Dec will happen).
Its official now for Dec I really think it may actually happen, time will tell for they could always delay it but it look negative now, since they gave a date too much media what slam it.
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I was in a playtest over labor day weekend, and I'll admit the character models are a bit cartoonish, but the environments are quite stunning.
And really... Graphics are not all that... Look at Aion, it uses the Crytek engine and for the most part, isn't much fun.
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It's awesome.
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I'm not even in the beta how can they be ready?!
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Glad its coming out this year! I'm a clean, and reformed, now former mmo junkie, so enjoy guys and gals!
