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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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48. Re: EA: A Decade of The Old Republic Won't Need Millions of Subs Dec 8, 2010, 22:52 Verno
 
MMORPGs are basically all the same to me and I never felt WoW had anything over EQII (or vice versa) except media hype and low system requirements.

It wasn't always this way. Back before Ultima Online became really successful it had a moderately sized playerbase that was surprisingly diverse. The game back then was mostly PvP driven and controlled by the players. The world itself had "rules" but you could skirt them for the most part. It was a lot more fun to play that kind of MMO, you felt actual danger when leaving the comforts of a city. Dungeons were deadly to the point that surviving wasn't something taken for granted. The players had faction wars and created their own stories. You could setup your own shop outside of your own tower, it wasn't instanced. There was no MMO-Champion, no community managers or wowhead. You made your own maps using memory or a piece of paper. People gave you directions or you hired a guide. It was neat in that many aspects of the game followed real life counterparts closely.

Unfortunately the commercialization of that particular game and MMOs in general lead to the gameplay variety going downhill and the amount of game enforced rules increasing rapidly for the sake of accessibility. Ultimately they found some success with it and set the pace for other MMOs until Everquest came along and did it better. Something was definitely lost along the way though, they don't make games like UO anymore. I can see why but at the same time people don't know what they missed out on, it was quite the experience. People simply don't have the patience to be genuinely challenged in these types of games anymore. 		 
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