How much does the world of Star Wars Star Wars: The Old Republic represented a mammoth project did not raise, but the numbers run from Michael Pachter really make an impression. The now famous analyst at Wedbush Morgan has made an estimate of production costs for the new MMORPG from EA and LucasArts, and BioWare has said that the beauty of the game could cost 80 million dollars.
There are several factors to be taken into account to realize the production costs. There are royalties to be paid at LucasArts for the rights to license so important, the cost of development, when initiated 4 years with 200 developers fully used and the cost of marketing, production and distribution.
However, the situation is not so hard for EA: according to Pachter already from the sale of two million units could generate $ 60 million in operating profit. The real game is played, however, with regard to subscriptions, a topic still to be clarified by the publisher: players with 500,000 subscribers, has reached the breakeven and the game will generate profits for both EA and LucasArts for a fee well within the the current project.
The minimum subscription cost would be about $ 5 a month, according to the calculations Pachter. The release of Star Wars: The Old Republic, meanwhile, is still scheduled for the end of 2011, although a shift in January 2012 is a possibility rather than concrete. Source: VG247 
There are several factors to be taken into account to realize the production costs. There are royalties to be paid at LucasArts for the rights to license so important, the cost of development, when initiated 4 years with 200 developers fully used and the cost of marketing, production and distribution.
However, the situation is not so hard for EA: according to Pachter already from the sale of two million units could generate $ 60 million in operating profit. The real game is played, however, with regard to subscriptions, a topic still to be clarified by the publisher: players with 500,000 subscribers, has reached the breakeven and the game will generate profits for both EA and LucasArts for a fee well within the the current project.
The minimum subscription cost would be about $ 5 a month, according to the calculations Pachter. The release of Star Wars: The Old Republic, meanwhile, is still scheduled for the end of 2011, although a shift in January 2012 is a possibility rather than concrete. Source: VG247
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