According to a Gamasutra, of Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey, the shareholders of EA would be skeptical about the success of Star Wars: The Old Republic. To create some doubts too, according to the analyst, would be the record of EA in the MMO genre, the last of which, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, successfully debuted in 2008 but quickly saw decrease the number of subscribers, so that push the publisher to close down 63 servers after one year.The shareholders would not have even liked the business model based on subscriptions and not on that free-to-play is becoming increasingly popular within the MMO, just as they would like to preview some warm published by the press about the game, BioWare . In addition to this, added to the shareholders' list of concerns "the royalty payments to LucasArts and the high development costs.
A few months ago, responding to allegations of an anonymous developer, Ray Muzika had spoken of "a difficult challenge to EA," but in the end would prove successful. The MMO BioWare should debut by April 2011, only on PC.
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