1. Alexander Rose
Convergent Media
Professor Schrier
2/15/12
Star Wars Paper
For my project I researched the audience of the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic,
An MMORPG created by Bioware and Electronic Arts. In this game the creators implemented a new
story telling system that has never been seen before in the genre. The system allowed the audience to
choose how their character interacts with people in the world and make decisions in the game that had
dynamic effects in the user’s game. My first goal was to see how this new mechanic had affected the
audience specifically in the aspect of player immersion in the game environment. My second goal was to
then see how users felt having more or less people in the game affected their experience as well. To find
this out I decided to get feedback from the player base through the game itself and through the forums
that are associated with the game.