Bioware bought heroengine way back before the original heroengine was available to the public. The engine they bought was not nearly as complete as it is today, and what was there they mostly gutted and they added their own systems. Bioware's version of heroengine is far different and better than heroengine 2 is anyway. Also, all heroengine 2 is is the Original heroengine with several upgrades and updates such as integration of middleware like speedtree and facegen and several other changes and a new UI, here is a full list of updates if you are intersted: http://wiki.heroengine.com/wiki/HeroEngine_Sapphire . Fundamentally though it is pretty much the same engine as before, heroengine 2 is more like an expansion rather than a brand new engine. Besides, whatever rendering engine bioware uses i can tell you it is significantly different than the one heroengine 2 uses and they would pretty much have to rebuild most of the game if they were to switch.

wow, you have some talent. If i were you i would get a student version of Autodesk 3ds max (don't actually need to be a student, lie cleverly) which is pretty much the main 3d modelling program for the entire gaming/movie/cgi industry.

I know your'e trying to start a fanboy battle, and you area going to succeed. WoW is a triple A mmo because it is just so good, i mean there are hardly any faults you can come across. yes, its graphics are outdated but they are their own special style and nothing has replaced them yet. If there was another mmo that used the same art style as WoW (which there aren't) then it would be outdated, but until then technically its not outdated. And come on, WoW is the biggest MMO giant to date, and it still has at least 10mil players after 8 years, even if you don't want to count popularity as a factor you cant help but look at that number and realize it obviously has something that mmo's like swtor and rift are missing. I mean WoW is getting pretty old, and it is still outperforming Other new MMOs that are great and have alot to offer like swtor and rift by a large margin. Like i dont know how anyone can not considerate in the top 5 AAA mmo's, let alone not give it the #1 spot. If you want to have A list of the best AAA MMOs then that is fine, but dont disqualify lists that have WoW at the top stop, Because Frankly WoW is at the top spot. Just ask Anyone at Gamespot, IGN, G4, and i bet you they would all tell you that wow is still the best AAA mmo to date.

OP, thanks helped alot

hey, my sith maruader is lvl 49, and he should be 50 very soon, and i have a couple questions about endgame progression. i have read a little bit about it, and it looks like it is just gearing up with hardmode flashpoints and then going to ops. but i was wondering how geared you should be to go into hardmode flashpoints? like do you do lvl 50 normal dungeons like in wow and get some decent gear, or do you have to grind a ton of daily's to get gear to go into hardmode flashpoints? also, should you have decent gear to go into story mode operations? or basically, what is it with story mode ops? i know they are an easier version of normal ops, but im not sure whether or not i can just go into them right after getting to lvl 50, or what kind of gear they drop? they have a similar system in wow where you use the raid finder, and you get wattered down versions of the normal raid gear, is it the same in swtor? thanks in advance !!!

when did i say fluff stuff was bad?

P2W is a big issue and i wanted to put my 2 cents in. Basically, i think it will ruin the game because then all of the nooby 10 year old with rich parents will be able to pwn even the best players in pvp, be the best dps in ops, and do everything with their +300% damage boost gear that normal players wont be able to do. i do not believe any swtor player would want this, so all of you thinking it might be even a remotely good idea need to think seriously about the impact of p2w on normal skilled non rich players who just want to enjoy the game, including pvp and ops.

go play LOTRO or something then, the second any of the things on your list come true i am leaving. you are the only person i have ever seen who would want that!!! that would ruin the entire game!!!!

i believe you already announced in one of your video's the level cap would be 55 with makeb, noble try backing out though

it not a real expansion, but i would pay 5 or 10 dollars for it at the most, but i will be pissed if they charge $39.99 for it or something, it is not world that. wow's expansions give us a 5 lvl cap increase and they charge $29.99 or something for it, and this is similar but allot smaller, so i don't think $5 - $10 is unreasonable.

korriban is my favorite planet by far to

i know you guys want those species, but how long do you think it would take to make armor look good on all of those character types? how would a selkath wear a helmet? its one thing to make a new model fore very different type of head, and another to make it look plausible. in the movies, have you ever seen one of those species wear any type of headgear? no. so if bioware does make any of those species, dont get P.O'd because they cant wear headgear. and how many of those species are even supposed to speak basic? imagine a selkath bounty hunter speaking basic in the bounty hunter voice, along with no visible helmet. i would laugh so hard. or you could have every race that doesnt know how to speak basic speaking in those regurgitated alien voice overs, point being is even without the armor clipping problem it still wouldnt be right.

is it just me or does the empire on drooga's pleasure barge seam to be just god awfully TERRIBLE today? yesterday we win every match, today we lose every match..... *** is up?

it is an mmo, so you have to do mmo-style content updates.

for insurance that they will not get a fail group