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EA: A Decade of The Old Republic Won't Need Millions of Subs

[Dec 08, 2010, 12:25 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

MCV quotes Electronic Arts CFO Eric Brown at the UBS Annual Media and Communications Conference discussing what it will take for Star Wars: the Old Republic to be a success. Brown says BioWare's upcoming MMORPG will not require the kind of subscriber base of World of Warcraft to last a decade. "Our assumptions for break-even and profitability are not seven-digit subscribers. We think we can run and operate a very successful and profitable MMO at different levels," he told the assemblage. "The key thing here is to really perfect the product. We’re shooting for an extremely high quality game experience. We view this as a ten-year opportunity."

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17. Re: EA: A Decade of The Old Republic Won't Need Millions of Subs Dec 8, 2010, 14:23 Eldaron Imotholin
 
Jdrez wrote on Dec 8, 2010, 13:58:
MxxCon wrote on Dec 8, 2010, 13:44:
WoW got to 10million users not because of marketing but because of the quality of the product.

Hardly. WoW got big because it was accessible to non-gamers, was Mac/PC out of the box, would run on any hardware due to crap graphics, and became extremely trendy.

There's nothing special about WoW beyond it's adoption by the drooling masses who don't actually play games.

No, I don't agree with this at all.

WoW's graphics may be crap by now... but a few years ago they were... well, lets call it "smart". The textures, albeit cartoonish, are sharp and you don't need a high-end PC to run the game on high details. That, plus the fact this game actually IS open-world. It never has to load unless you change continents or enter instances.

There also was a time where WoW had a beautiful ballance between accessibility and complexity. Experienced gamers had a big adventage. They were able to save the moment with their skills as a player, if a noob fucked things up. These days the game is holding your hand. Giving noobs and adventage and limiting experts.

WoW is or was a good game/MMO by many, many standards. That the hype around it made many people think otherwise is certainly understandable, but only that, if you ask me. 		 
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