Jared Rea

Time spent watching gameplay from Star Wars: The Old Republic: 60 seconds.

Time spent locked inside Lucasarts with Bioware employees to discuss said 60 seconds: 3 hours.

Answers received: Not a whole lot.

When Star Wars Galaxies is eventually laid to rest, it will be remembered for one thing: dancing. You could spend your entire in-game life just dancing the night away, styling wookie hair or creating blue milk for all your friends. You could live the dream of a moisture farmer! Of course, Bioware wasn’t saying anything beyond, “this MMO has a lot of content.” Now you know why we decided to write this feature.

I’m looking forward to seeing what Bioware turns out, of course, but to be honest with you I’m not all that excited. If you remove the Star Wars characters from the screenshots and told someone it was from a new World of Warcraft expansion, they’d probably believe you. Jokes on the visual aside, they have a lot of fascinating ideas.