E3 is a few days away! w00t!

Enjoy and comment below.

- Alan

There's two Bioware games I can't wait to hear more information about at E3, those being The Old Republic and Mass Effect 3.

Needless to say, any other important news coming out of E3 I'll hear about from my friend who is the real technophile and will care more about everything else at E3. Doctor Ray has been teasing us for the past few weeks about the content they have ready to show at E3 and I am pretty excited to see what Bioware has to offer.

However, post-E3, I hope we will get some very nice reveals as well (possibly even lifting the NDA?).

I think we have a lot info on crew skills so far, but what Im really curious about is end game raiding, more information about pvp and the other pvp arenas will be able to play in. But Alan also brought up a good point, we know close to nothing about how guild mechanics are going to work. So more info on that would be sweet.

Another thing im curious about is how affection is going to work, that and if you'll be able to talk to your companions while out in the world, or just on your ship.

Honestly, I was expecting to hear a release date until EVERYONE was like "They will not announce the release date at E3!" So now I am no longer expecting it as well.

Like you Alan, I totally want some more info on Guilds. I may not be an officer, but I love guilds and I always put 110% into my guilds. (Maybe I can continue the trend I had with all my previous guilds. I have not belonged to a guild that I did not become an officer in at some point during it's life time. *Wink wink* *nudge nudge at the MERC leaders*)

Now, this might be super lame, but I would be totally psyched if they released another timeline at E3. Not as in if they had one thing to give us, let it be a time line. But if they release a bunch of stuff, I hope it is one. I think those are just awesome.

Info I want to find out more about:
Crafting/gathering - The crafting page on the holonet still needs to be filled out!
Ship customization - Internal in the form of hanging trophies from achievements and maybe external in the form of different paint color schemes.
PvP - World PvP zones. I like Warzones, but they will probably be cross-realm if not at the start, then eventually. I like the idea where there would be world pvp areas for realm competitions, like guild vs. guild events.
End game - If flashpoints are 4-man, will raids be 16-man? Will there be outdoor raid bosses?
Lightsaber customizations! - Or maybe just weapons in general. This could also fall under the crafting topic, but it would be nice if you could modify your weapons if not effecting the physical stats, then at least the look of it. Like maybe put camouflage paint on it, or change the color of the blaster shot, or add a scope. My wish is for us to be able to do this to not just crafted stuff but also stuff we got from flashpoint/raid drops. That way we can make our stuff more unique.

I want all of that plus the CG trailer they will be using for the actual game where they do the pull over the stars thing with a release date or some other big piece of info at the end. I also believe its about high time they release the consular trailer and we should probably have the progression video for waiting so patiently for this long.

Bioware,

You will release consular info at E3 this year. ( waves hand ambiguously)

All of this. I want.

I want to know is if there will be public quests, like in WAR; I also want to know about achievements. Lastly, I want to know how factions in game will affect a character (ie the ones you have to work to gain rep with, such as Netherwing in WoW for example).

First off, thanks for your efforts Alan.

Well the thing I'm curious about is of course the endgame, how many raids will there be and how do you get your "epic" loot? Will you kill a boss, loot a lightsaber, blaster and a robe and that's it?
Or will everyone get some kind of treasure bag at the end of the raid or perhaps commendations to buy your loot at a vendor? And how story driven will the raids be, will you still have conversations and 16-20 man roll to answer the npc? Can't imagine that, so yeah... I'm curious about endgame raiding. Sure I would love to see a close release date more than anything, but I don't expect it.

As for the guild mechanics... well I don't know.. what do you guys expect? I can't think of much more than guild-achievements.

Oh and about the timelines... Stephen Reid today on the dev tracker

Things I am sure will find out on E3 :
1) Voidstar what is it?
2) A New PVP battleground
3) A new Trailer

Things I hope will be at E3 :
1) all the Crafting profession and what they do.
2) More info on the Companions
3) More info on Guilds
4) A Progression Video
5) Moral choices, What does Lighside, Darkside, and Grey mean for Non-Force users as well as Force users.
A sneak peak at a Lightsided Armor or Weapon. A sneak peak at Darksided Armor or weapons.
6) A sneak peak at hight end. A tease on who is the Dark Prisoner and what his prison looks like.

Things I wish for Other then having Blake Lively or Britney Snow sitting on my lap:
1) Release Date
2) What are all the Race options
3) The Consular Advanced Class Video & or Consular Progression Video
4) Open Beta
5) Saying that they found Time to put in Pazzak.