Patrick_and_the_ricks said:
It was only a matter of time after EA laid of all those people at Bioware Austin.
(including Mr. Bannu himself Stanley Woo, who was in charge of quality assurance lol)
I guess that whole sob story on Mr. Woo's blog a month back, where he went over how he was so "disillusioned" from his job that he did Bioware a favor and left voluntarily, was proven to be a total crock. Why am I not surprised - almost every moderator on the BSN continually lies through their teeth.
I suspect that EA is rushing their F2P model through to:
a) rescue the failing subscriber base/wasted monies on TOR
b) try to jumpstart some franchises that they already destroyed the first time (Ultima Forever being the prime offender)
In the end, the industry needs to innovate, not plagarize. I have no intention of playing TOR - if I wanted a WoW clone, I'd just go spend my time on WoW. At least I know the support is still there and that there's a ton of extra content. I don't want to play KOTOR 3 kitbashed into an MMO format.