Ruffiana wrote on Jun 17, 2011, 21:13:
6 months after launch, when the game fails to meet expectations and Origin flops over like the still-born, half-baked service that it will undoubtedly be...you will see this game avaiable on Steam and any other digital distirbution service that EA can find to try and drum up numbers.
Until then, you can order a box copy off Amazon, have it shipped to your door, and avoid the mess alltogether.
You may be right..but I doubt it.
This game will get a huge amount of pre-orders, when Bioware someday finally commits to an actual launch date.
You will also see big sales numbers in the beginning, and possibly record sales.
I may be up in the night here but SWTOR is really the only big budget subscription based MMO left standing that will go in direct competition with WoW, It's Star Wars(yawn..)and it has a massive budget behind it from a known dev house.
The real question here is what will the retention rate look like a month, and further 6 months after the big launch.
Theres GW2 coming but it's sub free so there will be a shit ton of people(including me)checking that out anyway, whether i make it my new home or not, we'll see.