1.5 Million People Begging to Play Old Republic Isn't Good Enough for EA
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I'm a non MMO playing person who likes Star Wars. Sounds like the perfect game for me. If only it took the free to play model Guild Wars 2 will take. I've been disappointed by MMOs before and never got into any of them. Though as a Star Wars fan I have developed a resistance to disappointment.
I don't believe those numbers are what they honestly hope to get for a player population. However, since they're going head-to-head with the unstoppable juggernaut that is WoW, I can understand why they might want more than 1.5 million people on board to play; it takes a lot to keep an MMO running, and as great as Old Republic may be, some people are gonna quit, so they need a high population.
On the other hand, given the trifecta of Bioware, Star Wars, and MMO, there's a huge number of people in the world who'll have interest in the game for one reason or another.
On the other hand, given the trifecta of Bioware, Star Wars, and MMO, there's a huge number of people in the world who'll have interest in the game for one reason or another.
Bioware's writing and stories have been consistently good, in my opinion, but the fact is, Bioware has no experience with MMO's and EA's entry is less than impressive to say the least. This game is going to have a massive surge, but I seriously doubt it will have staying power. I give this game a year at most.
What?! Always online? What if I wanted to play my MMO when I'm on the go or I don't have Internet?! We need to protest this draconian feature.SomethingAmazing said:
Seriously with so much PvE and solo quests why not have an "Offline" mode in MMOs? Or I suppose I could just play KOTOR.
Oh, EA. When will you learn not to over-hype your products?
I knew TOR would be the final nail in Bioware's coffin long ago. It's always meen my mantra to start doomsaying whenever a major developer declares they're going to try to dip their fingers into that MMO pot of gold. I'm going to be laughing maniacally if i turn out to be right.
If not, you can find me at the dark corners of the earth.
I knew TOR would be the final nail in Bioware's coffin long ago. It's always meen my mantra to start doomsaying whenever a major developer declares they're going to try to dip their fingers into that MMO pot of gold. I'm going to be laughing maniacally if i turn out to be right.
If not, you can find me at the dark corners of the earth.
well if u look how Warhammer started out and how badly that plumented I wouldnt be stoked about 1.5mio either if I where EA.
Personally I think WoWs time has come since I know may pps who played it much more hardcore than I have (and I was bad at times) and they where all disapointed by cataclysm. In fact ive seen entire guilds leave wow and start over in Rift - ah yea if you looking for something too keep u bussy till swtor this might be it - they didnt reinvent the wheel - didnt even try but instead they used various good ideas from other mmos and combined em. if u like ur standart fantasy-sword-n-board-dont-forgot-your-wizard-hat mmo and got the machine to run it in at least medium settings ull be surprised.
hm where was I going with this, ah yes - honestly the number of mmos who had a hype arround them in the last couple of years is quite large and most of them bombed in the end, admittedly usually cuz the games got rushed in the end (which i guess we shouldnt see with swtor) and than just couldnt hold their own against wow. ha finally got my train of thought back on track, so for EA whos still loesing money because of the Warhammer debacle it seems reasonable to be cautious.
and no personally i dont think they get 12 mio - in fact id be surprised if any mmo ever pulled of to become as dominat as wow was in its time. the right game at the right time - with the right economic circumstances arround the world (i know i know its just a couple of bucks a month but guess what if ur broke u aint got those few bucks either....)
Personally I think WoWs time has come since I know may pps who played it much more hardcore than I have (and I was bad at times) and they where all disapointed by cataclysm. In fact ive seen entire guilds leave wow and start over in Rift - ah yea if you looking for something too keep u bussy till swtor this might be it - they didnt reinvent the wheel - didnt even try but instead they used various good ideas from other mmos and combined em. if u like ur standart fantasy-sword-n-board-dont-forgot-your-wizard-hat mmo and got the machine to run it in at least medium settings ull be surprised.
hm where was I going with this, ah yes - honestly the number of mmos who had a hype arround them in the last couple of years is quite large and most of them bombed in the end, admittedly usually cuz the games got rushed in the end (which i guess we shouldnt see with swtor) and than just couldnt hold their own against wow. ha finally got my train of thought back on track, so for EA whos still loesing money because of the Warhammer debacle it seems reasonable to be cautious.
and no personally i dont think they get 12 mio - in fact id be surprised if any mmo ever pulled of to become as dominat as wow was in its time. the right game at the right time - with the right economic circumstances arround the world (i know i know its just a couple of bucks a month but guess what if ur broke u aint got those few bucks either....)
Oh well.
If this game is only half as bugged as an average Bioware Release, the MMO-Crowd is going to tear it appart. So don't mind the troll.
If this game is only half as bugged as an average Bioware Release, the MMO-Crowd is going to tear it appart. So don't mind the troll.
ALA QUBAR yes ur right what happened to the days where u could TEST an mmo. oddly enough "small" (in comparison to current titels) like eq1 would let u trial the game before u bought it.sleepyperson said:
I guess the era of the demo is over for good - too bad was a great way to get people to buy ur game as blizzard learnt from diablo 1 (hintedddyhinthint)
I like how every MMO thinks it can start out with 12million subs....They should know it took WOW 5 years to get that many.1.5 sounds like a good start if you ask me.
Has anyone ever thought that maybe the reason SWTOR won't beat WoW is not just because it isn't unreasonable, but maybe that a lore based on a finished movie franchise could get exhausted rather quickly?
