For all those asking, SW:TOR is an MMO, and as such is unavailable offline. You will, however, have hundreds of other people around to play with. Hard to gauge how successful it will be since it will be competing with Guild Wars2, T.E.R.A. and that new WoW epansion. Of course, Star Wars fans will probably be getting this one. It should probably be noted that all previous Star Wars mmo's were not very successful, but this one is being developed by a completely different company and should not be associated with the previous ones. I am talking about the MMO's here, not the RPG's.