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S.T.A.G.E. on 18 June 2009
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ZenfoldorVGI said:
shio said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:

Star Wars Galaxies didn't flop and it still is making money, though Sony's mistakes definitely took away alot of the game's potential.

MMOs have as much risk as anywhere else, doesn't matter that much. the thing is that those who have a solid appeal will instantly get decent userbase size in it's launch. The new SW MMO has that. Hell, even if Bioware messes up the launch they can still recover, like Funcom did with Age of Conan.

MMO market is increasing rapidly. Non-WoW subcriptions MMOs increased 30% last year, and F2P MMOs are growing even more than that.

MMOs aside, I don't see how Mass Effect will sell as much as Dragon Age. There's just too much going for Dragon Age. And E3 awards are meaningless, they don't even reward the game itself but it's presentation/demos, and what matters is the full product. For example, Mass Effect 1 won ALOT of E3 awards, yet it won nowhere near the amount of RPG GOTY awards that The Witcher did in 2007.

ME 1 suffered a lot from releasing on the Xbox 360, and having terrible technical glitches. Were it released on PC initially and the 360 later, it would have won many, many awards. The PC version is fantastic.

My friend, ME sold shit on PC. I am glad it was on the 360, because, quite frankly, that game would've gone nowhere if it was on PC alone. I don't even know if Gamestop sells PC games anymore. All the hype is on the 360 system.