the game was first announced on October 21, 2008, at an invitation-only press event.[7] The video game will be released for Microsoft Windows platform on December 20, 2011
The Old Republic is BioWare's first entry into the MMORPG market,[27] and it will be the second Star Wars MMORPG after Star Wars Galaxies. BioWare had long been interested in working on a MMORPG, but waited until they had "the right partners, the right team, and the right I.P."[8] A major focus in the game is on developing characters' individual stories[27] and, in October 2008, BioWare considered this game to have more story content than all of their other games combined.[8] The writing team has been working on the project longer than any of the game's other development teams.[44] An October 2008 preview noted some of the 12 full-time writers had been working on The Old Republic for more than two years at that point.[8][/