BioWare has not announced the name or described the nature of its online game, but Dalton said it will be launched in 2009. Dalton said his firm wants to do more than match the state of the art represented by such online games as World of Warcraft. He expects the complex event processing built into his firm’s game to allow richer role playing and interactions between players.

I’m starting to think if Blizzard was smart they’d start using their several hundred million a year revenue to buy out the competition and close off all escape from WoW.