I think I’ve pointed out many times that MMO Fallout is not on par with, say, Massively.com or MMORPG.com, or Rock Paper Shotgun. So when Darth Hater reported from a Comic Con panel that Bioware hopes to have Star Wars: The Old Republic up until 2025 (guaranteed!), a few of us said “this sounds a little too…out there to be a serious comment,” and I left it at that. No sense reporting on a joke, right?
Well, I can say that we have 19 major worlds. Then we have an indeterminate number of minor worlds. And our goal, obviously this being an online game, that we’re hoping is going to last for decades, we’re going to be, obviously, adding more to the galaxy map as the game progresses. We want to add dozens of worlds. Hundreds of worlds eventually. In 2025, we’ll hopefully have 500 worlds.
-James Ohlen, Bioware
Well the story was picked up on by all of the major outfits, initially by Eurogamer, spreading from Rockpapershotgun, Massively, MMORPG.com, and a few other websites. This is, of course, what happens when one company jumps on a quote to get the exclusive, and then others see it and jump on it as well.
Then again, you can’t fool anyone on April 1st anymore.
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