Star Wars: The Old Republic. Already. And it’s nowhere near release.

An example of one that is being played close to the chest? CCP’s World of Darkness.

It’ll be interesting to see how they pan out. Bioware have the dream license and they’re an amazing company, but Star Wars Galaxies showed us that really, in MMOland, that doesn’t guarantee anything. CCP have a strong license, and we’ve seen how they can grow and nurture a community from the ground up after the game has been released.

Contrast and compare, as they say.

Hm. I dunno. Warhammer had a huuuuge bubble, of course. Stargate… well, they did a little with the flamethrower video, but not much.

What do you see as hyped games right now? I’m seeing a curious lack, excepting Champions. I’d _like_ to hear more about Jumpgate Evolution, but for a game opening in June, it’s vewwy quiet.

Thank you for the hat-tip, it’s pleasing to know that I’m not entirely alone in having such an opinion.

Indeed, my opinion hasn’t changed, but I am pointing out to people that TCoS is free to play initially, barring any download costs, so really there’s little harm in trying it for oneself. I would never want to be the reason for people to not play an MMO, I’m just trying to explain the thought process behind why I’m not going to play it, in order to perhaps armour others against their own marketing-influenced expectations.

My intention is to be a deflater of hype bubbles, not a destroyer of games.

It’s really different-looking (at least to me), and it has some interesting mechanics. I suspect if I could just get past how unutterably crap I am with reticle-based combat (to the point where I can’t hit anything that isn’t stationary, let alone hit and strafe and click buttons at the same time), I’d be playing TCOS at least to the end of the freebie sections and quite possibly beyond.