Star Wars: The Old Republic Interview
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Seeing as both KotOR I & II were critically and financially successful single-player role-playing games, why did LucasArts decide to produce the massively-multiplayer role-playing game The Old Republic, rather than commission a single-player KotOR III in vein of the previous two KotOR games?
TN: I think that is a great question. There are a lot of reasons why we put this together: Bioware felt that it was time for them to get into the MMO genre, and they felt they could bring their great story to the genre which has previously been missing. Classic role-plying games are about character progression, exploration, story, and combat. Those are your 4 main pillar for a Role-play game. MMO's have had great character progression and lot sof combat, but have not delivered on that story pillar. That is why we pulled this project together; LucasArts is known for story telling games like Monkey Island and the Star Wars stuff, and the Star Wars brand is about storytelling and the Bioware brand is about making great stories.
Each class is going to have its own story. Hundreds of gameplay hours that is going to be unique to each class. Regardless of what class or side, we are never going to have the same questions and missions cross over. Like we've said, we're not just making KOTOR 3, but KOTOR 3, 4, 5, and so on all together into one huge project.
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Are there still plans to have SWTOR and Galaxies live alongside each other?
TN: We'll see how things go. We still have a very dedicated Galaxies base, and we're still providing updates, content packs, and other such things to the game. So far they seem to be loving it and the response has been positive, so as long as the community is there and as long as it works for us and Sony we're willing to keep the game alive.
