Only the best people are left. 

It will probably pick up for a while when the beta is released. After that, it all depends on the game's quality.

We who are about to die salute you!

Yep. The regurgitation/resurrection stuff could get very messy. 

I have been saving mana so that I can cast mass resurrection before the beta opens. That should help. Does anyone know if the bodies were mutilated or buried on unholy ground?

if they are mutilated into 5 pieces and you cast the mass resurrection spell, does this mean we get 5 times the amount of original?  if that was right than let re-mutilated them again and recast the spell and get 1000 times more back? 

Interest fades after a while. I am sure many were checking regularly and posting waiting for word of beta. Now we know it's not coming out this month, they are probably not visiting as much. Also there were lots of big titles released last month so I image that also has something to do with it. 

There's been a ton of new games out in the past couple of months, FE isn't available yet, and there really isn't anything left to say about WoM.

So, not that surprising that it's quiet. If FE turns out good then it'll pick back up.

I was hoping the beta would be out by now so I don't have to buy those games.

Except Old Republic.

<Rant>

Hey guys, remember that awesome game KOTOR? Well we have used it to make yet another MMO that ignores the basics of the FPS genre and yet uses it as the foundation for our game! There will be some token dialogue and characters in the quests, but it all ends up being an xp grind so most of you won't even read them past get 5 bantha skins and return. 

Remember when Jabba the Hutt was scared of that wierd detonator bomb in Return of the Jedi? Well now you can throw an infinite number of them every 1.6 seconds (1.3 if you get the skill rank two). 

Remember those lightsabers that cut through metal and bone like butter and I can't believe it's not butter? Well now you can sit there for minutes, hacking and slashing and do the same damage as someone with a tuning fork that is a higher level than you! 

I really dislike the way MMO's choose to make their games. I also hate it when they take a nearly perfect Star Wars RPG and devolve it into something brutish. There is so much unrealized potential in the MMO genre. I am not really sure why using WoW's system is favored over expanding the gameplay to something fun to play. I mean you don't even have to aim your gun... how is that acceptable?

</Rant> 

But KOTOR is largely heralded as one of the best RPGs ever made. So how is it a risk to make that game only larger and with several thousand people? Maybe I am simplifying it too much... no wait, they are.  

Yes, KOTOR was an awesome game! Hmmm...I remember it taking quite awhile to even get a starter light saber let alone one of those tuning forks you're talking about

Looking forward to Old Republic, even if I do wish it had been Kotor3, 4, & 5 instead.  I'm not a real big fan of MMOs.  But I did really like the story and voice acting during the Beta.  Also, a lot of Sean's rants are problems with everything in video games.  Those are arguments against video games in general not just old Republic or MMOs.  Have to balance realism, or source material, with fun.  I threw a lot of Thermal detonators in KotoR to fairly mediocre results.  I do strongly agree that I also wish they had not followed the tired old Tank/DPS/Healer WoW formula and gameplay.  

I remember years back, I was playing Dungeons and Dragons and my DM instituted MMO rules like taunting for tanks, etc. This was before 4th edition. It was sooo stupid.  Why would all the enemies be targeting that one guy, the one guy who seems the hardest to hurt and ignore the mage throwing fireballs or the priest healing the fighter?  Makes for really stupid combat scenarios, over and over.