10 Years Ago Today: BioWare Thinks It Can Do SWTOR Better Than WoW's "Massive Investment Of Time"

Jason Winter
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A lot of people had a lot of very high hopes for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Not least among those were the co-founders of BioWare, Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka.

While SWTOR wouldn't be formally announced until Oct. 21, 2008, an interview with the two from 10 years ago today gives a sense of the scope that BioWare was shooting for with its as-yet-unrevealed MMO project.

The original interview appeared in the December 2007 issue of Game Informer magazine, but all we have to go on is the summary provided by Massively, whose old articles are now found on EndGadget. According to that article, both Zeschuk and Muzyka said they played World of Warcraft but they

expressed dissatisfaction with the way that making progress in the game is so time-consuming that "it's almost like having another job." They said they are thinking about ways to make the genre more accessible and easier to "pick up and play and have fun."

Raise your hand if you don't think Star Wars: The Old Republic was especially innovative at launch, especially as it relates to progression and the "massive investment of time" Muzyka laments regarding WoW. It was your standard, level-to-max-then-instanced-activities-to-gear-up, or at least was in the beginning. Recent changes, like the Galactic Command system, have mixed up the formula a bit, but not without some significant growing pains.

Muzyka also said that WoW's "staying power hasn't been as strong," just three years after its launch at the time of the interview. It still seems to be doing OK.

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About the Author

Jason Winter
Jason Winter, News Editor
Jason Winter is a veteran gaming journalist, he brings a wide range of experience to MMOBomb, including two years with Beckett Media where he served as the editor of the leading gaming magazine Massive Online Gamer. He has also written professionally for several gaming websites.

Discussion (2)

Weilan 5 years ago
HAHA! Those incompetent fools can shove their game where the sun doesn't shine. xD They can never topple WoW, even Vanilla WoW is better than current SWTOR, it only lacks quest text narration.

wololo 5 years ago
its ironic that SWTOR now has become the very embodiment of that phrase itself


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