Kotick on SWOTR Economics

[Nov 29, 2011, 11:51 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

An interview with Bobby Kotick mentioned here last night contains a bit we didn't notice at first, as GamesIndustry.biz (registration required) notes the Activision CEO opines on the business model of Star Wars: The Old Republic, when asked about the possible impact of the upcoming MMORPG on World of Warcraft. "Lucas is going to be the principal beneficiary of the success of Star Wars," Kotick said. "We've been in business with Lucas for a long time and the economics will always accrue to the benefit of Lucas, so I don't really understand how the economics work for Electronic Arts."

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Nov 29, 2011, 15:35

PropheT

Cutter wrote on Nov 29, 2011, 14:39: I still see a ton of people writing off, myself included. It gets boring real fast. It's already antiquated before it begins both in look and how it plays. And because of how its desgined the overhead for keeping it running and producing new content - which will take forver to do - will be enormous. I'll be surprised if they ever recoup their money on this one. They've said ~350k subs would be enough to break even with the game, and I have a hard time seeing them not doing that. I'd be surprised if they didn't double it, honestly, at least for a while. I don't think it's going to blow people away but it's Star Wars and it's an MMO. If you like those two things there's not a lot to hate about it, and there's a lot to appeal to solo RPG players that other games haven't tried. It kind of surprised me how much it felt like KOTOR despite being an MMO.

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	1.	Nov 29, 10:53	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	nin
	2.	Nov 29, 11:17	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Illumin
	3.	Nov 29, 11:24	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Bhruic
	4.	Nov 29, 12:02	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	xXBatmanXx
	6.	Nov 29, 12:47	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	ASeven
	7.	Nov 29, 13:09	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Creston
	5.	Nov 29, 12:47	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	saluk
	8.	Nov 29, 13:42	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Mordecai Walfish
	9.	Nov 29, 14:27	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	ASeven
	11.	Nov 29, 14:39	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Cutter
	15.	Nov 29, 15:25	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Trevellian
	24.	Nov 29, 18:35	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Cutter
	26.	Nov 29, 18:46	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Trevellian
>>	16.	Nov 29, 15:35	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	PropheT
	25.	Nov 29, 18:36	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Cutter
	27.	Nov 29, 18:54	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Prez
	28.	Nov 29, 19:18	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Creston
	30.	Nov 29, 19:35	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	commonperson
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	17.	Nov 29, 16:00	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Creston
	18.	Nov 29, 16:20	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Flatline
	20.	Nov 29, 16:46	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	killer_roach
	23.	Nov 29, 17:41	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Creston
	35.	Nov 30, 03:49	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	D_K_night
	29.	Nov 29, 19:18	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	commonperson
	19.	Nov 29, 16:41	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	eunichron
	21.	Nov 29, 16:46	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Flatline
	22.	Nov 29, 16:48	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	eunichron
	10.	Nov 29, 14:36	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Cutter
	12.	Nov 29, 14:40	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	killer_roach
	31.	Nov 29, 20:36	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	RollinThundr
	32.	Nov 30, 00:05	removed	Cutter
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	34.	Nov 30, 03:44	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	D_K_night
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	37.	Nov 30, 12:01	Re: Kotick on SWOTR Economics	Verno