MMOs are businesses. No matter how well they are initially done, they are doomed to degrade to the WOW model and cater to the lowest common denominator for the sake of subscriptions, which ultimately screws the people who played from the beginning. I have a hard time justifying any sort of time investment -- even with AFKing and macros and offline economies -- when all of your in-game assets can we wiped clean or made irrelevant in a single unannounced game revision.

I would actually be more inclined to play an MMO that was free with an in-game item mall, because if all else fails I can always buy myself success. I played Voyage Century for a few months in the summer of 2007 and had an absolute blast without ever having to buy anything from the item mall, but had I kpet playing I would have had to for the sake of catching up with the Pkers.

As for KOTOR, loved the original story, still ranks as one of the best RPGs ever, and I still can't bring myself to get rid of my xbox copy and occasionally pop it in and play for a few minutes when theres nothing else going on. The deathmatch announcer was soooo funny.

I'll check out the website in a bit. At my age, though, I'm just about Star-Warsed out. The universe is cool, the original story lines intriguing, but really.....