In an interview with Information Week concerning some high level tech geek stuff, Bill Dalton, the tech director for Bioware let fly with the release time-table:

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.

Cool, I guess I can play The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar until Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning comes out, and then switch over to Bioware's Unnamed MMO: We Swear, It's Not Knights of the Old Republic Online.

But, 2009 is an important year for Lucas Arts and online games.