Well, that's one way to avoid having it compete with Warhammer. Could be an extremely smart decision on EA's part.

I'm wondering if it's really going to be much of an MMO at all. I suspected when they first started talking about it that it could end up being very similar to Guild Wars as far as how the storyline is implemented. Now there's another similarity.

This also answers how LucasArts plans to have SWG and SW:TOR operating simultaneously.

It all makes sense now.