At San Diego Comic-Con that officially starts tomorrow, there will be a panel for Star Wars: The Old Republic, the much anticipated MMO from Bioware and EA. And during that panel, there was to be a huge announcement about the game. But a polish game store website named Empik placed in their store a TOR collectors set that it was taking pre-orders. Could this be what they were going to reveal?
The shop talked about the details of this set, giving the added features you will get over the lowly droids that just buy the regular game, such as a CD of the TOR soundtrack, of course a fancy box for which it all comes in, a map of the Old Republic galaxy, the game discs in metal cases, a Darth Malgus statue, a custom Security Authentication Key (which we aren’t exactly sure what it opens) and a journal by Master Gnost-Durai with notes by Satele Shan (who we are sure will have relevance in the game).
The set also features in-game enhancements, which is interesting. They include characters that such a training droid for help in fighting and a mouse droid for just some fun antics. If you want to see a dancer on a holograph (ala Princess Leia’s video appearance in New Hope), there is the HoloDancer and HoloCam to keep up with your accomplishments for prosperity. A flare gun will also be provided to alert your enemies, I mean your friends, to your location and you even get a cool vehicle to drive around in the game. And if that wasn’t enough, you will also get to purchase exclusive stuff in the in game store not available to regular players.
But the price of this is not going to be cheap. They have it down as 150 euros, which is around $212 in US currency, although many times the US version is often cheaper than the exchange rate to compensate. So how much it really is going to be, if it’s going to be at all, is still yet to be confirmed by EA or Lucas or Bioware.
We believe that this item probably is authentic and will be available when the game ships. The items are just too specific to really be a hoax. But when that will be and how much it truly is we hope we’ll find out at Comic-Con this weekend.
