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BioWare has also served up some interesting statistics from the last week and a half of play in regards to what their subscriber base has been up to. To date, players have:
· Logged 28 million in-game hours – roughly equivalent to watching all six Star Wars movies, two million times
· Averaged well over five hours a day playing the game
· Created more than 3.8 million characters; 510,000 Jedi Knights and 550,000 Sith Warriors
· Killed more than 2 billion non-player characters in the eight days since Early Game Access began check the page and follow @videogamepride on twitter for daily video game news whenever you want it.BioWare has also served up some interesting statistics from the last week and a half... more
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this is something you got to see. what does it take to get a nerd to get a tattoo? there game to be released silly. in this case star wars the old republic which has been in the making for over 5 years now. enjoy this picture, and yes the tat is real he said answer that in a tweet.this is something you got to see. what does it take to get a nerd to get a tattoo?... more
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“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.”
On its face, the quote is innocuous enough until you consider that EA and Activision Blizzard are fairly bitter rivals, and Blizzard’s top earning property stands to directly suffer from the release of The Old Republic. In fact, a good case could be made that EA decided to fund The Old Republic specifically to go after Blizzard’s World of Warcraft.
One analysis based on a poll, has at least 1.6 million World of Warcraft players leaving the game and switching to The Old Republic, and most see that as a conservative estimate. That would be bad news for Blizzard, who are already trying to stop the bleeding, as more and more players continue to abandon World of Warcraft.
Most estimates suggest that The Old Republic will sell around 2 million copies within its first few months, but the number of copies is only one part of the success. 2 million copies would certainly make EA (who spent upwards of $100 million on The Old Republic) happy, but with games like these, the subscription fees are what make MMORPGs worth the effort. Last year, World of Warcraft generated over $1 billion in revenue for Activision.
“If you look at the history of the people investing in an MMO and achieving success, it’s a small number,” Kotick said.“Lucas is going to be the principal beneficiary of the success of Star... more
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The scope and ambition of the voiceover project for Star Wars: The Old Republic can’t be overstated. BioWare’s goal of having every line of dialog in the MMO fully voiced sounds like hyperbole of Molyneauxian proportions, which leaves one understandably leery. When talk of thousands of voice actors and hundreds of thousands of lines of dialog keep getting thrown around, it’s natural to doubt.
And yet, that small, childlike sense of wonder still burning in the back of our hearts hopes for it to all be true.
Take a look at the video where the boys at Bio do their best to sell you that this will not, in fact, be Star Wars Galaxies 2. Then hit the link for the rest of my thoughts on the subject.The scope and ambition of the voiceover project for Star Wars: The Old Republic... more
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