Star Wars: The Old Republic anticipation thread.

But what if my two characters are a Smuggler and a Bounty Hunter??? :P

 

Gabe over at Penny Arcade has been playing the beta and put up a big post with some of his thoughts today. It's here, just scroll down a bit. My favorite bit:

 

^^^ I really like the sound of that!

 

It's KOTOR with the same gameplay of World of Warcraft. It's funny, I love both of these games but I really don't give a shit about this.

 

Pre-orders are now live!

 

And it will span trought a long timespan too.

 

Got mine!

 

So there's pre-orders, but no release date?

You get early access. Earlier than..... yeah.

 

The release date is stated as "Targeted for Holiday 2011".

That's pretty much as firm as any other big ticket game's release date, and this may be the most anticipated MMO in years!

 

Got my CE on amazon. Looks like the CE sold out good thing I ordered early.

 

I will definitely not try it, even though or maybe exactly because I'm convinced it will be a very good if not great MMORPG.

Playing WoW starting with the early Betas and then again from launch for about 2 years, I've kinda had my fill with the genre, you know?

I tend to get very competitive when it comes to MMOs which means they become quite time-consuming and... let's say, less than healthy in more ways than one.

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/RepublicDefendersTOR?feature=mhee#p/c/94AD0445F86C4754

Comic con sesseion and trailer.

 

Pre-ordered my CE today.

It's exciting and disheartening at the same time.

 

Why disheartening?

 

That youtube page is a little scary. I'd laugh if the game turns out to be terrible.

 

Cuz it's still 4-5 months before I can use it.

 

^^^ Ah yes. Understood.

 

Tried to preorder from the email I got and was told it wasn't available in my region.

Definitely will be dropping WoW and trying ToR for a couple months.. or knowing me leaving the WoW sub running anyway. I'm looking fwd to it.

Last time I spent some time on the ToR site I couldn't find anything about races you can play other than human, anyone know offhand?

 

^ You can see a list of confirmed playable species here at the SWTOR Wiki.

 

Blizzard is counting on it