BioWare MMO release window revealed, KotOR rumors persist

by Samuel Axon Jun 19th 2008 at 5:30PM

Filed under: Launches, MMO industry, New titles, News items, Rumors

Total Video Games has a new scoop about BioWare's mysterious MMO project. The site reports that Electronic Arts' CEO told investors that his company is funding an MMO in Austin. Of course, that's a no brainer. Since BioWare is owned by EA now, we assumed that much. But he want on to say that the MMO is slated for a release in "the fiscal 2010/2011." That means it's coming between April 2010 and March 2011. It'll be a long wait; how sad! That's not all, though.

There's also the rumor that will not -- cannot die. An alleged disgruntled ex-LucasArts employee (the "ex" bit because of the recent layoffs) e-mailed gaming blog Kotaku saying that one of the projects "in the pipeline" at LucasArts is Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3. That alone is no surprise, since LucasArts and BioWare announced a new collaboration months ago, but ... he also said that KotOR 3 is an MMO.

Oh noes! Not that rumor again! Well, anyway, we're sure our very intelligent readers know to take with a kilogram of salt the paraphrased words of an alleged disgruntled former employee. Right?

Tags: 2010, 2011, bioware, bioware-mmo, ea, electronic-arts, knights-of-the-old-republic, kotor, kotor-3, kotor-mmo, lucasarts, release-date, rumor, star-wars

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Brela said on 9:12PM 6-19-2008

Well I know this is the internet, but I'll try and somewhat backup the above 'rumor'.

My former guild leader was a former Blizzard employee who was let go just before WOW's release due to financial constraints within the company, and ended up at Lucas Arts. At this time he still had connections with former co-workers at Blizzard who told him, about the upcoming skill changes. These included the mage elemental pet, invisibility etc, this was well before any news was leaked on the matter, and it later came to be. This all occurred last September weeks before I quit WOW.

One thing that caught my attention was he informed us that Lucas Arts had begun work on a new Star Wars MMO. His character over the time I knew him was extremely professional, really easy going, hardly a show-off. So take this as you will, but I have a hard time seeing this being only a 'rumor', time will tell.

Teiraa said on 10:02PM 6-19-2008

It is nothing new that the Bioware MMO is scheduled around 2011.
Already last year there was such a statement from EA:
http://www.massively.com/2007/10/11/ea-buys-bioware-their-mmo-delayed/

Derek K. said on 10:46AM 6-20-2008

How could you *not* do a KoTOR MMO? Honestly?

It's like SWG, except you can legitimately have all the damn jedi you want.

Korriban said on 6:10PM 6-20-2008

I've been salivating over the possibility of this for quite some time now. The occasional tidbit dangled in front of us by the guys here at massively keep that hope alive.

The thought of someone improving on what SWG used to be (before the dark times...before the NGE) is music to my ears.

For too long has fantasy dominated the MMO market. It's time for Sci-Fi to return to reclaim it's crown.

The only thing that will kill my dream is if I hear that SOE are getting involved :\

http://onemorequest.blogspot.com