EA Wants Star Wars: TOR To Thrive 10 Years

if it makes it past its first year with a good playerbase, it just might.

SWG launched in mid 2003 if I recall correctly. There was a server merge done just over a year ago but, it still has a decent(not relative to WoW) subscriber base considering all the options available out there.
I think 10 years is a little too optimistic but, then again, I never thought I would still be playing SWG going into 2011 either.

Even World War 2 Online, a MMO game nobody has ever even heard of, has survived for 9.5 years and is still in development and has enough paying subscribers to keep Cornered Rat Software alive.

I don't think 10 years for good a MMO is a unrealistic goal, many have done it. The keyword being good. WoW is the most popular because it:

1)Had a huge franchise before the mmo (much like SW)
2)Came out at a good time, as in there wasn't a huge all powerful super MMO at the time.(imo wow is starting to fade from being the all powerful MMO king it once was)
3)Blizzard has done a good job fixing and adding content / features etc.
4)Other MMOs that have come out after WoW either copied a lot from WoW (poorly) or were released with very big flaws, half assed beta builds renamed to retail (FFXIV), or a lot of missing content (WAR).
5)????
6) profit...err wait a sec.

The more I read about SWTOR the better the game looks. It looks like a solid MMO that has a different feel then WoW (as in the more story orientated game play) and most of all is developed by a good company (BioWare).

Have doubts i'll be playin it, even though i liked some starwarzz games. Maaan I miss those first experiences!!! Just to many other MMO games out right now. May the force guide you to give up your thousand dollars in ten years.

care to back that opinion? they just broke 12 million subscribers in October and that was before the launch of catalysism...a game that may be the best selling PC game of the year and it was launched in December...and if it doesn't become the best selling PC game of the year then no sweat of blizzard's back...since that title is currently held by SC II.

Maybe because they aren't getting game of the year awards by adding twisted metal into the game and nerfing the big 3 classes (Pally, rogue, druid) again, and again.

Almost everyone has played WoW got tired of newb basing ganking and gold farmers of all racial decents. WoWs too popular, its like facebook now. Eve's just as bad if not worse. And single player rpgs being so much less frustrating is just another reason that WoW is beginning to plateu. WoW loyal will of course buy the expansion, but don't expect new people to start joinging in on the expansion pack bandwagon.

I literally burst out laughing at my work when i read this title. I'll be surprised if it lasts 1 year, much less 10.

The reality is the game is far too ultra casual single player friendly to last that long. I mean honestly, what do they think people are gonna do, just create new characters and replay the "single player story experience" over and over ad nauseum?

Yes, the game will sell well, and probably retain subscriptions a little longer than most MMOs, it will do that simply because of two words, "Star Wars". After that, people will realize what a hulking piece of crap it is and will start looking elsewhere for a real MMO. All this game is amounting to be is an over-glorified rehash of the same KOTOR/Baldur's Gate formula they have been doing for 15 years, but with online elements.

With all the MMOs that are coming out this year, i believe WoW will start to fade, but of course not die. My prediction is the days of a massive 12mil people MMO is over. I think that MMOs will start to serve more niche markets and therefore splinter people into different games that suit their tastes. I can see there being 6-12 popular MMO worlds that will all do well comparatively to each other.

Blizzard did good with Cata. By introducing a whole new realm, and revamp from of lower level zones, this encourages folks to not only just level their character to max, and coast it out on a daily grind, but to start all over from level 1 and experience a whole new world from ground level.

EVE is very open in gameplay but most content is for 'elite' players who've been around for years on end which affects about 5% of the user base. However the new "newb friendly" learning tweaks allows new players to jump into the game more and possibly join in more daring PVP lands without getting destroyed by the more "elite" players. But the redeeming property is a theoretical lvl 1 character can almost jump right in and find a position and use amongst the vets as they take on high end content (usually as a tackler or salvager).

Hopefully TOR would have a good combination of elements and not become a "Warcraft with lightsabers" or an "EVE without the ships", let alone a City of heros.......

I think they'd do better if they listened to their players more instead of deleting their posts on the forums/articles that relate to the graphics. This is a big sign for me that they are shoving a pile of crap down our throats. A bunch of my friends were really looking forward to playing this but now most of them are going to avoid it because of that issue alone, since they already have experienced the developer nazi's from SOE.

EA ruined Warhammer Online partially due to staff cutbacks which delayed serious performance fixes that were killing the end game...I fear they will ruin Star Wars as well.

I love Bioware, but TOR look horrible stylistically. Who thought cell shading Star Wars was a good idea? I'd rather play a MMO with KOTOR graphics.

Somebody didn't read the game description before commenting!!!
If you'd be so kind as to look at what the game is that you're critisizing, you'll find that the single-player experience has nearly unlimited different playouts. It's not just going to be a good or evil side, it's going to play in to factions, moral decisons, ally storylines, and even the players are going to control how the entire story unfolds. You are going to eat your words when this game comes out. Trust me.

EA likes what happen with starcraft 1, maybe it will happen.

yes ofc but you need realy active ppl on the game, and if you gonna run it for 10 years you might like to haw a team to upgrade grapics to so it whont to to stale at the end. like wow been doing altho for me they culd do 20x more

EA rep "we'd liek it to last 10 years"
press "how long ae you expecting it to run though "
EA rep "it might last 10 years"
press "be real with us"
EA rep "WoW will crush us but we'll keep the servers up for 10 years for the couple thousand players who keep playing after the first 6 months when people go back to WoW"

First to mind, EA = "WE will try and milk the consumers for everything." Want a green light saber, that will be a $1.50. I can see it now, count me out even though I like the Star Wars universe.

This is Electronic Arts, we're talking about, right?

I'll believe it if I see a real commitment like "if we cancel before ten years, we'll refund the last six months' fees" or somesuch.

Otherwise its just the usual PR guff.

It could certainly go into 10 years if it had more than 8 character classes.

That's what was great about SWG - too bad SOE killed it.

RIP KoTOR 3.

EA has a bad track record with online games they all seem to get canceled before 3rd year, earth and beyond was fun till they killed it and i don't think things were that bad there was still quite a few players at the end.

wait.wait.wa.whaat???! EA actually wants a game to be successful, that's a first (hint: sarcasm). anyway, I'll give TOR a try, just because it's the closest thing to a KOTOR 3 (RIP, I may add)

All I got to say is.
Phantasy Star Online.


So Popular after Sega closed the servers they gave the software away to the fan base and its still around for free play on the Stchack servers.

:3