Does BioWare Have What it Takes to Create a Great Star Wars MMO?
With the announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic, one of the questions people have been asking is whether or not BioWare has it in them to create a unique, state of the art Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game. Creating a MMO is not like creating a first person shooter or even a console RPG because in a MMO, you have to worry about hundreds, thousands, or even millions of players. It’s not just “how can I make this single player feel epic?” Instead, the question is, “how do we make everyone feel epic?” There is a lot of debate about whether they have the ability to create this game. More importantly, people are questioning whether the game is going to be enjoyable or if it will be buggy. Because Electronic Arts (EA) owns BioWare, there are severe concerns that EA will force BioWare to push the game out faster than it should be which brings up concerns about the quality of the game. Players of MMOs are very picky about their games and they like one that really is going to be exce
