heruamon on 19 July 2009
| Gamerace said: I doubt you'll see a KoTOR 3 aside from this MMO. 360's KoTOR is call Mass Effect and is a trilogy. I have to hand it to Bioware. Full voice for a MMO is a huge leap of faith because the costs involved must be staggering and that's on top of the already enormous costs of developing a first rate MMO. It's a good thing Bioware is now part of EA because if this failed it probably would've taken Bioware down with it otherwise. I have the upmost faith in Bioware's abilities but this is damn ambitious and risky route they've taken. Good for them. Hope it's a huge success. |
The cost are going to be astronomical, but if they do it right, the payoff is going to be HUGE. WoW cost Blizzard $200 million (according to some estimates from last year), but without a doubt, the ROI for the project have been thru the roof. I think SW:TOR has the potential to deliver a million plus level subscribers base, conservatively speaking.
WRT to KOTOR, I think the ball might still be in M$'s court. I don't think Bioware controls it, and it might actually be Lucasarts, which means a separate developer could do it...Bioware did KOTOR, but Obsidian did KOTOR 2.
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