Star Wars Online: The Old Republic or How to Lose Friends in One Blog Post

Star Wars Online is shaping up to be the next big MMO release this year.  Looking at the concepts planned Bioware is piping out very interesting concepts.  One of the big ones includes your own posse of NPCs, not unlike one of the single player games that they are known for.

The game has many things going for it:
- One of the most recognized IPs (Intellectual Properties) around
- Sci-Fi is a relatively untapped market with only Star Wars Galaxies (defunct), Star Trek Online and EvE Online as major contenders.
- The game is chronologically in a timeframe where there would be numerous Jedi... unlike Galaxies.
- It is being created by Bioware.  The company that has created many classic games based in Forgotten Realms (Neverwinter Nights) and Star Wars (Knights of the Old Republic).
- There are a variety of new concepts in the game to make the playability new and interesting.

Also, if you really like the game and are anticipating it here's a video.

All of these seem so wonderful it must be bound to succeed right?

WoW and Rift

Due to a long absence from WoW, I have decided that... well, I'm bored of it.  So, my short break became an extended one, then I sort of quit.

I'm not sure if it was the boring gear grind, the time required to do a dungeon, the boredom of the same PvP, or the fact that the new expansion seemed a bit lack luster in the end.  Hell, it could even be the fun I was having with my daughter that was better, then circling a zone over and over for ore.

So, I was sans game for weeks, but then there's Rift...