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Star Wars the Old Republic: Limited Pre-order is now available.
mgz:
--- Quote from: Sosseres on July 22, 2011, 06:04:27 PM ---Minor point, a lot of people feel WoW inflates their player figures due to the fact that they don't have monthly fees in all areas. Some areas can have massive amounts of users where a minority pays for cash shop items. Doesn't really matter though, if they play it, they play it. Up to Blizzard to cash in on it, micro transaction systems seem to generate money just as well as monthly rates.
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micro transaction systems usually dont work out as well in execution since they arent applied on as large of scale.
You wont see companies getting truckloads of cash in profit with micro transaction based business its simply not as consistent as monthly fees once your game hits higher player #s
Stsin:
--- Quote ---EA boss John Riccitiello went on to detail the level of success the game will have to achieve if it wishes to prove a solid financial investment for the company.
“What we told folks was that this is a product that it starts to make profitability about 500,000 subs. At about 1m subs, it's a business that makes good money on an ongoing basis but it doesn't feel great about the historical investment that sort of got us here,” he admitted.
“And anything north of 1m, as we approach 1.5m or 2m, starts to look like a great investment and justifies the entire purchase price of VGH stock filed in a very positive way.”
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Doubt cash shops can be a substitute for the cash flow of 2 million subscribers. Of course, they can be greedy like Bliz and have semi-cash shops for mounts, vanity pets, and collector items; in addition to subscriptions. Plus the huge amount they make just from character transfers. Why I liked Rift. They provide it for free, including the authenticator and built in coin-lock system for account protection.
Comic-Con 2011 Panel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K4qe83s1v8
Developers' brief overview of SWTOR, including a Q&A session with fans.
~54 minutes
Star Wars the Old Republic Join the Fight Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pIzV5orZbY
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Guild Wars 2 Comic-Con
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyYe1JKdrdI
I'll probably play that too.
TMRNetShark:
Pre-order limit has not been reached, but it looks like it will be soon.
EA: Once pre-orders for SWTOR “are gone, they are gone”
Oh, and it states that it's still going to be a holiday 2011 release date (which is up til the end of Feb or March 2012, either one). The release date will be announced in September. Open beta weekends will be in September. In reality, how are they gonna handle open beta?
Sosseres:
I doubt they will have open beta. Just for people pre-ordering, which is not open beta. Open beta is when they have a site that you register on and then get to download the game. Almost nobody but F2P titles does open beta now a days, they are expensive.
TMRNetShark:
--- Quote from: Sosseres on August 20, 2011, 03:47:52 PM ---I doubt they will have open beta. Just for people pre-ordering, which is not open beta.
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There is at least 200,000 people who want to play Beta and probably look on Bioware's website and their own email to see if they were invited (guilty, sorta). That's like 40 servers they would have to setup to allow at least 200,000 people to play. Will that happen? DOUBT IT. There will be like 3-5 Beta servers that can only really allow up to a MAX of 5,000 people per server... even if that. Wow Servers can only handle 2000 people at a time before a queue is placed, right?
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