Originally Posted by whistler

So we are forced to be Jedi then?

I don't like the idea of that, but I am all right with Jedi being a big part of the game. I just want to be a Tatooine slave trader.

There has been talk of 12 classes for this game, nothing confirmed yet however. Lets see if we can make a list of what would make sense for a bioware SW game...

Jedi Knight: main warrior-type
Jedi Consular: relies more on using the force then weapons skill
Jedi Sentinel: Is a mixture of the knight and consular
Sith Warrior: main warrior type
Sith Consular: (Im sure there will be a different name for it, but it would be equal to the jedi version)
Sith Sentinel (see consular)
Scout: Infiltration type, think rogue or theif
Commando: The typical shock trooper, well versed in many different weapons-types
Bounty Hunter: Fairly self explanitory
Smuggler: self explanitory

The rest would just be pure conjecture. A healing class would make sense, but bioware has talked about wanting to make the game "heroic" and I dont know if they consider healing heroic. Some kind of droid contolling class would also make sense, but with bioware using their tried and true "sidekick" system, it would make sense to fit a droid for everyone in there. They have said there will defintely be a crafting system, but I would expect it to work similarly to wow's in that there are a bunch of crafting professions, and you pick one from a list of however many. A class for melee combat for non force users would make sense as well, people loved the old tera kasi profession back in SWG and bioware seemed to like melee combat in kotor, so it's the most likely. Creature-handling class possibly? I dont think so, but you never know, everyone loved the old creature handler in SWG, and who has played wow and not played a hunter besides me? It's a class type that has an attraction to many potential customers, so who knows.

My only concern is choerographed combat (which it appears to be how they are leaning) doesnt look so hot at any latency above 150. Bioware might be getting in over it's head here, but then again it wouldn't have been unreasonable in 2003 to think blizzard was getting in over their head making WoW, and that turned out ok. I've seen them talk up the "wealth" of knowledge they have gotten from their mythic brothers at EA, I only hope they learn to do the exact opposite to what the mythic guys suggest. I can't imagine LucasArts would want to get involved with another MMO project just to "turn a profit", they have that style of mmo with SWG as that's how sony runs all their MMO's. (overall customers/title isnt as important as each titles profitability for Sony) I imagine they all realize this is the only non-blizzard MMO property that has a chance in hell to bring in the kind of revenue WoW does so they are going to aim big to draw in the most customers possible. Late summer/fall would be a perfect time to release this thing, but we shall see.