SW:TOR - WoW Killer?

If you haven't heard of Star Wars: The Old Republic yet then you must not be paying attention. SWTOR has been a hot topic on all the MMORPG forums and websites these days. Some have proclaimed that it will be a WoW-killer, in other words a game that can compete with the incredibly popular World of Warcraft MMO game by Blizzard.

I have nothing against WoW, of course. It's a great game but nowadays its seems that people are looking for the next big thing in MMO games and SWTOR might fit the bill.

I do recall that when WoW was first released that critics liked it but noted that it was polished but not exactly innovative. The nice thing about WoW is that it has got a mass appeal. Before its release there was not one Western MMO that had the same huge player numbers that Asian MMOs did. With WoW Blizzard showed everyone that there is in fact a big and hungry market for good MMORPGs.

At the moment I am not sure of my feelings towards the Star Wars franchise. I liked the original trilogy of movies but the new ones were pretty terrible. There is currently a Star Wars MMORPG that is slated to close this year, Star Wars Galaxies. Problems with SWG were in the mainstream news not too long ago and if you visit any forum with a SWG subsection, well you will see that people have not forgotten what a disaster it was.

However, all things considered, I think people are just waiting for a good MMORPG game like WoW to be released that's why people are closely watching how things are turning out for SWTOR.