Star Wars: The Old Republic Shatters MMO Sales Records - vanmeterblent1961

With World of Warcraft holding the MMO throne, whenever I hear most a new massively multiplayer online gage being produced a part of my brain wonders "why annoy?" Clearly I behave not sour for Bioware (and with that line of thinking, I never will), as in just a little over a week since it's launch date, Star Wars: The Old Commonwealth is already attracting one of the fastest-growing player communities in the history of subscription-based MMO games.

Naturally thither have been plenty of positive reviews for The Old Republic, which won MSNBC's "Best Multiplayer Game of 2011" as well as ratings from various consumer coverage outlets in the squeaky 80's and 90's. And judgement from the ratifier numbers game, IT seems like quite an a few players agree with these reviewers.

And so what are the numbers, you wonder? In a word, fulgurous; since the game's launch on December 20, to a higher degree a million players give spent concluded 60 million in-game hours playing The Octogenarian Republic. Together they've created more than 850,000 Sith Warriors and 810,000 Jedi Knights, let alone countless smugglers, troopers and bounty hunter trash. Perhaps the most troubling news for Three-toed sloth algorithms across the globe, all over 3 billion NPCs have been slaughtered in the fortnight since The Old Commonwealth officially launched. With over 260 millions quests completed and to a higher degree 44 zillion PvP battles, IT's clear that Star Wars fans have been keeping pretty busy over the holidays.

It makes sense that if one game could have the potential to compete with the most popular MMO games transparent out the gate, it would be The Old Republic. George Lucas' Star Wars mythos is famous (whatsoever might enounce infamous) for being broad sufficient in compass and subject interest appeal to a diverse audience; The Old Republic capitalizes on that appeal by placing players in a galaxy Former Armed Forces, far away and thousands of years prior to the original films. It's a game filled with old faces and ideas in a totally new setting that players get over to direct, and with a critically acclaimed developer like Bioware pickings cozen design, the success of The Old Democracy makes sense.

As with any newfound MMO, one has to wonder if the supportive momentum leave sting. Crafting a perpetually solid undergo for players, especially players World Health Organization spend countless hours with one game, is no think feat. But according to a recent BioWare handout, Dr. Ray Muzyka, General Handler of EA's BioWare Label and Co-Founder of BioWare, claims that "everyone at BioWare, EA and LucasArts is honored – and humbled – by the stellar response from our fans. We'Re sledding to work jointly tight with our community in the weeks, months and years onward, continually serving our audience with regular delivery of compelling new features and content."

Politic words for anyone hoping to sustain the interest of terminated a million people for an extended time period. And if anyone tin can compete with Snowstorm in the MMO arena, it's BioWare. But the social lion's share of 2012 lays before us, and with the awaited debut of comfortably-legendary MMO games like Guild Wars 2, The Secret Globe and perhaps flatbottomed the fourth World of Warcraft expanding upon pack Mists of Pandaria, rent out's hope we aren't overestimating their chances.