The Old Republic Launching After July 1
In a recent media conference, EA CFO Eric Brown spoke about the details of Star Wars: The Old Republic’s launch window. Specifically, that the game probably wouldn’t launch before July 1, which is the beginning of EA’s second quarter of the fiscal year.
“So we said it’s going to launch sometime in calendar, but not within Fiscal 11. So that basically pens down between, you know, April 1st and December 31st of this calendar year. It’s also reasonable to infer that it’s not in our Q1 guidance. We gave Q1 Fiscal 11, Fiscal 12 non-gap revenue guidance, minus 39 minus 44 cents and I think it’s not unreasonable to infer that it’s not included in that 90 day period,” he said.
In addition, Brown spoke about how EA plans to move from a closed beta to an eventual open beta for the game. Read the entire transcript at Darth Hater.
EA’s Frank Gibeau Explains The Old Republic
EA Games label president Frank Gibeau has recently answered some questions about The Old Republic, including how the game will work alongside Warhammer Online.
“Well, as much as Need for Speed is a competitor for FIFA,” he said. “They compete in the same genre of videogames but they’re very diverse customer bases. The Warhammer customer base will overlap to a degree with Star Wars, but obviously you’re bringing in millions of new customers with the Star Wars universe.”
He is also confident about some players even playing both games. Read more»
EA Games president: “It is an absolute imperative for the company to go online as fast as possible”
EA Games president Frank Gibeau said Wednesday that a prime focus for the firm was to push into the online space with all available speed.
“It is an absolute imperative for the company to go online as fast as possible, and the more projects we can do that have scale and quality the better,” the exec told VG247 in San Francisco. Read more»
Console Star Wars MMO?
Electronic Arts exec Frank Gibeau has confirmed that console versions of Star Wars: The Old Republic and Warhammer Online are “under consideration”.
Speaking to Eurogamer at the press event announcing SWTOR for PC, he said, “We’re definitely looking at the opportunity to bring the MMO experience to console, without question.”
