Ex EA Dev:”Old Republic will be one of the GREATEST FAILURES ever for MMO's

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darthdevidem01 said:

Vashyo said:

lol, I'm Definately expecting it to be better than FF XIV atleast. :P

This is actually the first MMORPG I've ever been interested in, I'm expecting a real storyline with solid immersion. I just hope it doesn't go the usual MMO-route with questing and item crafting, It allways gets tedious quick.

"collect 10 pieces of grass"

"Kill character A"

"Kill X amount of creatures"

lol being better than FFXIV isn't much because most games are better than FFXIV trollolololol

@Slimebeast

Your right, its unlikely they'll ever see a penny coming back to them

And this $300 Million budget could escalate even higher.

yea from what I have heard of FFXIV it wouldn't be that hard to make a better game. Hell apparently many Korean F2P MMOs are better. 

as for TOR to be honest that number if it is even more than a guess is probably rounded up from like 250 plus and would be the total budget for the entire project, chances are they won't have spent all of it by launch. And the on going costs like servers, patches and expansions wouldn't be added to the budget. But then again if they do spend over 300 million I think they will be in real trouble.

they will need to move at least 3 million copies and keep at least 1 million for the first year and for the player base to expand to at least 2 million at it's peak and sustain 1-2 million for at least 4 years for a chance to make that back IMO, I mean EA said they needed 1 million subs to break even and were expecting 2 million. But they do have a  chance to do that, SW galaxies managed 1 million copies in 2 years and everyone knows what a disaster that was and MMOs were far less popular then. Add in annual expansions and some premium paid items like a canon breaking millennium falcon and they should be good.