EA spent a fortune on Star Wars: The Old Republic's development
Not only is Star Wars: The Old Republic a solid MMO experience, with a world record breaking voice cast/writing team, but it also has a budget of epic proportions.
According to a report in the L.A. Times, SWTOR cost EA roughly $200 million and counting to develop. I say and counting considering that BioWare will be developing add-on expansions down the line.
We all know that developing a project with the depth and complexity of SWTOR isn't a cheap endeavor, but it could be said that a fair share of that cost could have been the salaries for the 800+ staff it took to complete the game, which is actually a very good thing.
Will the incredibly high investment pay off for the folks over at EA? Well, that all depends on how many of the million registered users remain once the free trail expires. But I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that they will.
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Let's hope that this development money was money well spent. So far, it looks like it.
Heigen
MMORPGs are never worth it, boring as hell :/
Double-T
It's worth EVERY penny.
BigBossofMoss
For people who haven't played an MMO before, this game is pretty great. I understand that some veterans think this game is pretty generic but come on, it's only a month old.
freakazoid00
This game is already not doing well and it's gonna bomb HARD, then both companies will be forced to merge in order to stay afloat and we'll end up having Madden NFL: Star Wars Edition, Dead Space 4: Jar Jars Vengeance, or a Mass Effect game where Shepard teams up with Ewoks to take down the Reapers once and for all.
CoffeeBlack
What makes you think that this game isn't doing well? They had probably one of the best launches of any MMO to date and it keeps getting really good scores from reviewers. It may have undersold on it's initial goals, but MMO's make their money over a long time period by design and don't depend as much as other games do on immediate payouts. Besides, EA is gigantic, $200 million is nothing to them. And there is no reason why the two companies would ever have to merge, as the only investment that Lucasarts made to it was approving the characters and content so they fit inside the universe, and they are probably making a bigger percentage of the profits than EA is.
LegendofDragoon
Honestly this game is boring. It's as generic as MMOs come. Tried it for a short time and got tired of it in like 2 days.
contagioned
As an MMO, yes, it's the same as many others. But it's not worse than the top MMOs in that aspect. However, in the storytelling and almost single player aspects, it is above any other MMO currently available.
Ben Singer
Of course they will, the game is freakin AWESOME and everyone should play it