Star Wars: The Old Republic News

For:PC Release Date: 13 December 2011

BioWare's Star Wars MMO is EA's most expensive game

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Will cost significantly more than a traditional packaged game.

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EA has revealed that Star Wars: The Old Republic, the ambitious MMO from Mass Effect developer BioWare, is the publisher's most expensive game ever created.

Chief financial officer Eric Brown described the MMO as the "largest ever development project, period, in the history of the company".

Brown added that the project will come in way over the usual $30 million for a packaged game, noting that "any MMO costs significantly more than that".

He also revealed that EA believes Blizzard spent $100 million or more in order to ship World of Warcraft back in 2004. These days WoW is generating over that each month from subscriptions.

Star Wars: The Old Republic is currently targeting a spring 2011 release.

Via Eurogamer

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elvis

SWG was good then bad then good then bad again.

If they can remove the grind to becoming a jedi and give me xwing combat (real xwing, none of that rogue squadron type) with dogfights in space i'd be happier than a pig in sh*t.
Posted 23:51 on 11 March 2010
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renegade@ Bloodstorm

In theory yeh, but Sadly I dont know if this is wise from EA, I guess people said this about WoW. But this is just another MMO trying to get some of the WoW pot.
Posted 15:59 on 11 March 2010
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Bloodstorm

Spend money to make money.
Posted 15:02 on 11 March 2010
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Get2DaChoppa

Neon tracking down the laptop thief!
Posted 14:59 on 11 March 2010