Can we take off the hype goggles for a moment?

Pfft! The game is here to enjoy, speculate about, worry, be excited, be vengeful, explore one's own Dark Side and do millions of other great things. I'd take being excited over "oh, do some real stuff" every day. What real stuff? Mortages? I paid mine. Kids? Nope, don't want any in my life. KotFE speculation? Absolutely, here I come.

So keep worrying and don't let anybody tell you you're doing something wrong. What do they understand?

This will probably just make me sound like more of a pessimistic, unsatisfied little brat, since that is apparently the vibe I'm giving off. But truthfully, I couldn't get into dragon age 2 or inquisition because I didn't like the characters. Alistair from origins is one of my all time favorite video game characters, and I loved everything about origins. For me, though, who you share a story with is just as important as the story itself. Which is why while the inquisitor story is objectively more "boring" than the warrior story I enjoyed it more than the warrior because ,unlike the warrior, there was nobody on the inquisitor's ship I had any desire to kick off. I liked them all, and that's more than I can say for most classes. Agent story was indeed good, but it is probably my least favorite story in the game, even if it was masterfully written, because the agent's crew just completely rubbed me the wrong way. The only character I even felt close to on that ship was Vector, and the creepy bug-guy should never be the most relatable person in a story. I'm just worried that this story could be equally good, but be tarnished by poor, over-cliched characters.

Also I'm gonna say that was kind of unhealthy for them though. You don't need to be a student of psychology to know that when you start to loose sleep over something trivial, it has become too large a part of your life and you need to step back. And that's coming from the guy complaining on video game forums about cliche character blurbs on a leaked webpage.

I got three or four hours of sleep instead of seven or eight. One night out of the year. A Saturday no less. If we're going to call something unhealthy I think it should be you guys if you care that much about it.

If it were "objectively more boring" that would be true for people other than you. It's not: I'm seeing it exactly the opposite. The Inquisitor story has left me with gales of entertainment, while the Warrior story is, to me, nothing more than boring old "Hulk, SMASH!!!!!"

The word you were looking for is "subjectively."

Man I hope some for of open world phasing finally gets introduced.

Meaning that since Lana is referencing jedi and sith retreating to tython/korriban that is actually reflected on said planets if you go there past said story point. It's a long over-due technical feature of this game and if they don't do it now, when they're shaking the galaxy as we know it off it's hinges, they never will.

Yah know I haven't really chimed into this before. But I'll say something.

I think it's absolutely BRILLIANT for them to advertise this game and be 100 percent behind it, push it and add a BUNCH of stuff.

They know what they have and if they really wanted to, they could do something in the future that blends The Old Republic very well with all the other stuff. They could really market it and use The Old Republic era and explain it as a "precursor" of events that happened long, long, long ago. Cause remember, it's canon until they say it's not. And I believe The Old Republic era didn't get the axe at all from Disney definitively because it's so far back it effects NOTHING of the new movies or prequels. Not even close!

So they know what they have in The Old Republic era. It's just a matter of time until they choose to acknowledge whether or not they want to use it and incorporate this stuff into "official" status. Which I believe, in due time, that will happen because The Old Republic era is an absolute behemoth in it's own and acts as a "but what happened BEFORE anakin and "the chosen one" and all that. Well? That's why there is The Old Republic era. They can go very, very far with this!

I think both Disney and EA are now realizing what they have in this game. Disney didn't shut it down because it brings in revenue and it does NOT effect any of the storytelling that will ever go on in the new trilogy / movies because it's so far back. Disney knows that and they know what they have.

EA seems like it's finally 100 percent behind this game and pushing/marketing/hyping it hard. And it should, because this game is fantastic and deserves credit for being as great as it is. I'm so excited. I could write pages upon pages of theories and how great this game is and the potential it can be used in.

Nevertheless, those things WILL happen. One day it WILL be "official" and until Disney says so, The Old Republic era is left untouched because it's so far back it will NOT effect any of the new directions disney wants to take, but still acts as a precursor to people and Star Wars fans answering the questions "ok...so what happened all the way back?"

Play Knights of the Old Republic I and II and SWTOR and you'll find out

They can really go heavy on this stuff here!

I'm so excited for this announcement. It's big for the game and big for it going forward. Disney acknowledges The Old Republic era and knows it's just Star Wars gold to explain events from the past.

No, it won't. They've been very, very clear on that fact. This game falls into the 'legends' bs for the very reason that it is not and will not be anything resembling 'official'

It's far more likely that there will not be 3, but 1 faction. Better than Cross Server my friend :P

Oh dear dark side I hope not.