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Not me. Not interested in a d20 mmo.

If they did a rollback to d6, I would. I suppose i just prefer non-levelbased...as you already know..

 

 
Arg!  I'm in the same boat with you Drew.  You are not alone!

It may not be D20 Drew, but something different.  It is an MMO (which means it will likely be level based in some way anyway).  I haven't played the KOTOR games, but I've heard they play well enough that you don't notice the game mechanics of D20 much.  (And it was modified anyway)  I read about it a month or two ago, and I think they are doing a system overhaul, so won't be straight D20, if it even resembles it.

That said, Starwars MMOs have a long and storied history of being bad, and even if it's good, I don't need a game I need to play $15 a month to play.

Honestly, chances aren't good.  The only console MMO was FFXI, and that didn't go over too well.  It's hard to make the game play nice with the different systems, Patching is occasionally a concern, and you have less control flexibility on the consoles, particularly for typing.

Ugh, that controller is unwieldy (I tried one out, though admittedly, just holding it).

FFXI is still going, so while it hasn't been a huge success, it has some support.  Phantasy Star Universe I believe was console only and has been fairly static in content.

Star Wars Galaxies was good til they dumbed it down for all the whiners. I'm willing to give KOTOR a shot tho, I've played both the xbox versions of the game were good. Galaxies at the start wasn't level based, not sure if they changed that when they dumbed it down. I'm really hoping with the KOTOR game they go back to the non-level based aspect of it. But who knows, I'm still gonna give it a shot no matter what.

OK, there has been an official announcement for the game.

Announcement

The official website for the game can be found here:  http://www.swtor.com

KOTOR is probably the right setting to do it with.  We'll see if Bioware can pull it off.  MMOs are a little bit different than single player RPGs.

I think there are a glut of MMOs out there. ENW has ads for free ones that aren't bad. I think it's too little too late. Maybe they should have started down this route instead of Star Wars Galaxies.

I like Galaxies before they dumbed it down. It had a rpg type feel to it, at least to my way of thinking. Once they watered that down to satisfy the masses... I lost interest. I'm sure this one will be more like what Galaxies is now but I'll give it a try before I decide I dislike it.