Verno wrote on Jul 20, 2011, 16:27:
Over a rumored billion dollars in largely unsuccessful and derivative MMO titles too. Heads are going to roll if TOR is a one month wonder.
It won't be. The hardcore star wars nerds will HAVE to move to TOR to get their Star Wars MMO fix, since Galaxies is shutting down. Coupled with enough people loving Bioware that they'll give TOR a go, and enough people intrigued with the rumored amount of content, and I think it'll do well enough.
Will it kill WoW? Unlikely, but the average WoW player would apparently rather raid the exact same dungeon for the 198,000th time in the hopes of finding a drop with an extra +2 somewhere, so there's no possible way you could ever convince those people to leave WOW anyways.
But I'd be very surprised if, in 12-24 months, it hasn't made that rumored 300 million back in
revenues.Creston