(Originally posted on my blog here)

Here are the stats behind Star Wars: The Old Republic. I've gathered these from various sources, and list them here apropos of nothing, but just because you might find them interesting. I know I did. All the information is from official Bioware information or interviews with the developers. So, lets start with the basic information first.

Basic Information

• Game announced: October 2008 (source)
• Testing started: 9th July 2010 (source)
• Game release: 2011 (source)
• Set 3,500 years before the events of the movies (source)

Characters

• 8 character classes (source)
• 16 advanced classes (source)
• 8 different playable character races (source)
• 3 talent trees per advanced class (1 is shared) (source)
• 40 talent trees total (source)
• Maximum level: 50 (source)
• Average time to level 50: 200 hours (source)
• 5 unique companion characters per class (source)
• 40 unique character companions (source)

"Game" Size

• Each class has a unique story of 3 chapters (source)
• Chapter 1 is longer than the whole of the original KOTOR game (source)
• Each class story is equivalent to the entire Mass Effect trilogy, i.e. the game's storylines in total are equivalent to 24 Mass Effects (source)
• Codex length: 120,000 words (average Star Wars novel is 100,000 words) (source)
• The total script is longer than 60 Star Wars novels (source)
• If read through completely the game's script would last longer than the entire 86-episode run of the HBO television show "The Sopranos". It would take 3 days without sleep. (source)

"Galaxy" Size

• 17 planets (source)
• Tattooine alone is larger than the whole of the game area in Dragon Age: Origins (source)
• More than 10,000 NPC characters to speak to (source)

Sound, Music and Voices

• 5-and-a-half hours of original music (plus the music from all six movies and the original KOTOR games) (source)
• Score recorded by an 80-piece symphony orchestra (source)
• Over 1000 four hour voice-over sessions (source)
• Hundreds of thousands of lines of dialogue (source)
• Tens of thousands of lines of alien dialogue (source)
• More than 1000 voice actors were used (source)

Miscellaneous

• Standard ranged attack range: 30 metres (source)
• Maximum number of guild members: 500 (source)
• Over 50 unique alien species in game (source)