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Star Wars: The Old Republic's original director hadn't played a single MMO before launching its development studio: 'How the hell did they trust me with this much money?'

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(Image credit: EA) The original director of BioWare's long-running MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic— which is now being run by Broadsword —had not played a single game in the genre when he started work on it, he has revealed. In an interview , BioWare veteran James Ohlen described the studio's founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk calling him into their office in 2006, halfway through the development of Dragon Age: Origins, and asking him to oversee a new office in Austin, Texas, making MMOs. Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Ohlen—who was also lead designer on Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Neverwinter Nights and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic—quit BioWare in 2018 after 22 years. In the full interview he discussed his regrets around The Old Republic's rocky launch. The team built around 200 hours of content for players spread across eight origin stories—in hindsight, Ohlen would've preferred 60 hours across a couple of meatier origins, he says.…

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