Species and advanced careers unleashed in Star Wars: The Old Republic

"So, TOR has less character customization than a MMO that was release3d in 2003?"

And WoW and all the other MMOs since have less crafting details than SWG that was released in 2003. SWG has one of the most complex(and fulfilling if you love to do it) crafting systems of any MMO I've played. I hope TOR tries to do a crafting system 1/10 as deep as SWG's, so I can die happy.

Just for fun, I did some quick math to see how much paper it'd take to cover the earth, land and sea. Numbers are approximate and mostly gained from quick google searches. I am perfectly aware they're exaggerating.

We'll start with one page, 8.5 inches by 11 inches. That's 93.5 square inches.
There are about 4,000,000,000 square inches in a square mile, which means you'd need 43 million pages just to cover a mile by mile area.

The Earth's about 200,000,000 square miles. If I haven't missed a decimal point, this adds up to needing 8,600,000,000,000,000 pages.

But how many pages is that?

The average internet webpage is 130kilobytes. Let's render those all as characters with 1 byte = 1 character. Per RFC678, you can fit 66 lines and 85 characters per line on a sheet of 8.5x11 paper. So the average internet webpage is 23 pages, and thus there are 21,130,000,000 pages (of paper) on the internet. So to cover the earth, you'd have to print out the internet 17,700 times.

That is one hell of a script :)

No it's not vapor, people have and are testing it. I will put money down that we WILL see it before June 2011..

I need to get the vegas guys to start giving the odds so we can bet on it!

BioWare long ago said that the playable races will be limited by the fact that they need races who can realistically be speaking the voice acting done by the actors for the player characters. Unless you know any Wookiees(minus Ralrra) or Ithorians who speak in perfect unaccented, unobscured English(or French or Spanish or German), then I'd say you should sit down and be thinking of all the cool near-human races we could get for TOR. :)

Actually there is a nice video that overviews multi-player interact and combat on SWTOR's site, if you're interested: http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/developer-walkthrough Although this doesn't talk about how it works with companions.

The preview on the Bioware site from last year does an excellent job of showing the foundation of the game. You can clearly see that the combat system for multiple classes was in place and the mobs were acting in a reasonable manner. The animations/graphics were also very good for a pre-alpha build of the game.

I think that Bioware has done a very good job of releasing story background and gameplay previews so far. I hadn't seen the advanced class system yet, so that was new to me. As far as I can tell, the game appears to still be on track. We're seeing more gameplay previews of TOR vs other MMO previews where it was just a producer talking the whole time (AoC, TR, WAR).