The publisher co-published Star Wars: The Old Republic, an MMORPG set in the Star Wars universe.
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Electronic Arts said that its in-house game teams DICE (Battlefield) and Visceral (Dead Space) will work on Star Wars titles, in addition to BioWare, the team behind EA's existing Star Wars MMO The Old Republic.
BioWare has been updating its MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic quite a bit lately.
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My last Star Wars: The Old Republic post has been a tiny bit controversial.
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Why I should assume otherwise when it comes to Star Wars: The Old Republic is beyond me.
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Another AAA game from EA and BioWare is going Free-To-Play this fall: Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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Also, their falling prices probably have something to do with the monumental failure that was Star Wars: The Old Republic.
The Star Wars: The Old Republic Combat Logger, for instance, keeps track of in-game damage, threats and healing data on-screen.
In a few months, players in the EA MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic (SW:TOR), will be able to romance same-sex characters.
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And there has been some mention of Diablo 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic betas starting up within that timeframe as well.
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And this may seem like a distant memory by now, but Star Wars: The Old Republic was a huge disaster for the company.
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The stock is off 30% in part due to disappointing sales of Star Wars: The Old Republic and the shift to mobile gaming options.
He also points out that even major new releases like Star Wars: The Old Republic are struggling in an increasingly competitive and challenging MMO market.
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But games like Star Wars: The Old Republic may have siphoned off some of those Warcrafters, because those subscriptions dwindled to 9.1 million in August 2012.
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The release should help WoW compete with its newer big-budget rival, Star Wars: The Old Republic, which lost about a quarter of its subscribers between February and April.
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It was announced a few months back that Star Wars: The Old Republic, in the face of dwindling player numbers, would be making the switch to free-to-play sometime this fall.
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The two former doctors founded Bioware in 1995, and developed iconic titles like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and most recently, Star Wars: The Old Republic (an MMO).
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Star Wars: The Old Republic is a triumph.
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After the struggles of Star Wars: The Old Republic, there must be questions around whether players simply do not want story-based, dialog-heavy MMOs, or whether they just want a different kind of story-based, dialog-heavy MMO.
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After poor earnings and a tidal wave of negative PR surrounding big titles over the past few years like Star Wars: The Old Republic, Mass Effect 3 and most recently, SimCity, it appears a change was in order.
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Free-to-Play may conjure images of a thousand identical games with friend requirements and energy bars in the corners, but more elaborate games like League of Legends and Star Wars: The Old Republic are playing with the model as well.
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Goblinworks and Paizo are adopting a subscriber model for Pathfinder Online, in a time when that revenue model is quickly losing ground and even behemoths like Star Wars: The Old Republic have been forced to adopt a F2P model.
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Titles like Guild Wars 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic are slated to make big splashes in the MMO arena, and it might be time for Blizzard to start rewarding loyal players with new and useful features, rather than charging for them.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic was a disaster of titanic proportions, losing EA millions (if not hundreds of millions) and causing fans to blame them for causing Bioware to fumble a concept that should have been a slam dunk, a Star Wars MMO.
While Activision has raised its full-year forecast promising a "record-setting" year, EA has had to lower its outlook for the current period blaming its latest Medal of Honor and NBA Basketball games for having "disappointed" and its Star Wars: The Old Republic role-playing title for having "underperformed".
Fable 2 let players choose their sexuality, and pre-EA BioWare included a lesbian character in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, a game that never stirred up even close to the amount of controversy Mass Effect 3 drummed up.
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See the Center's Transition Brief entitled "The Single Most Urgent Clinton Security Decision: Ending U.S. Vulnerability to Missile Attack" (No. 92-D 144, 3 December 1992), and an article by Center Director Frank Gaffney entitled "Star Wars II" in the 8 February issue of The New Republic.
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