At launch, the game was subscriber only and had about a million users from the get go, who then quickly started to bleed out. It seems to have managed a billion dollar lifetime revenue gain with a starting budget of $200 million, which is nothing to sneeze at, but it took a lot of changes to get there. You need to keep in mind that TOR is not a failure of a game.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lordsīioware’s return to Star Wars before the Disney buy out and after they handed off LucasArts’ ridiculous time tables to Obsidian is something people have had a lot of thoughts on, and most of those thoughts range from “meh” to “this is literally the titanic, look at this epic meme I made expressing this, fellow gamers.” The fact that Bioware thought it was a good idea to take what was then still the most popular, critical acclaimed game they made besides Mass Effect 2 and do a follow-up via chasing that sweet, sweet World of Warcraft cash cow instantly raised eyebrows, and the past decade has been a bizarre mixture of questionable decisions, gay planets, and Bioware Austin being terrified of their fanbase while also being frustrated for about half that time at the main office ignoring every lesson they learned with online games during Anthem‘s production.
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