E308: BioWare says there is no KOTOR MMO (wink)
by Mike Schramm 
Jul 16th 2008 at 8:30PM
Filed under: Sci-fi, MMO industry, Rumors, Massively Event Coverage
We just saw BioWare show off their new Dragon Age: Origins here at E3, and while that singleplayer game looks great (imagine a Mass Effect game set in the world of Baldur's Gate), we did spring the requisite massively multiplayer question on them for you. At the very end of the Q&A session with developer Dan Tudge after the demo, the PR rep told us there was just "time for one more question," and we threw it out there: "So, how's the Knights of the Old Republic MMO coming?"There was silence in the room for a moment. Tudge quietly said, "I... have no idea what you're talking about," and then everyone laughed as the PR rep nervously said, "Good answer." Tudge added, "You're asking me that in front of my boss?" And so we revised the question: Dragon Age has a very MMO-style design -- there's a minimap in the upper right, party portraits in the upper left, and a bar with icons for skills across the bottom. Does BioWare really want to make an MMO? "The interface looked like Baldur's Gate to me," said Tudge cooly. "The real question is, how much of the MMOs did Baldur's Gate influence?"
Touché. But we left the press conference with a smile, a special secret that we'll share with you now. As much as Tudge was thrown off by the question, as much as the PR flack was aghast that we asked it, we did leave with this satisfactory piece of information: they didn't, in point of fact, deny.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James said on 12:53AM 7-17-2008
I'm guessing they didn't say no because you didn't ask a yes/no question...
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zouve said on 1:41AM 7-17-2008
If he didn't, in fact, say no, then there is something amiss with your headline.
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ScytheNoire said on 8:44AM 7-17-2008
I wonder if it's some type of inside joke, because a friend of a friend who works at BioWare always tells him the same thing, with the wink.
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Ghen said on 11:41AM 7-17-2008
Good question though. Very Geoff Keighley style ;)
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Derek K. said on 11:53AM 7-17-2008
My thought:
If there *isn't* a KoTOR MMO in the works, there probably is now.
Look at the huge rumor mill going on, and the amount of publicity they are getting *without doing anything.*
If I work at BioWare, I'm sure as shootin' pitching this to my boss.
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