Wednesday, December 28, 2011

'Star Wars: The Old Republic' Is Off to a Very Good Start (Mashable)

Star Wars: The Old Republic, the latest MMORPG from BioWare and Electronic Arts, already has a million registered users, and momentum seems to be picking up a week after the game's launch. The "Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game" reached 1 million users Dec. 23, just three days after launch, and it includes users who have pre-ordered the game. Now, however, Electronic Arts has published a new set of milestones, which tell us more about how users are actually interacting with the game.

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According to EA, the gamers have spent more than 60 million hours playing the game, completed 260 million quests and killed more than 3 billion non-player characters.

While EA's announcement refers to the SWTOR community as "rabid," we'd wait a little longer before declaring the game a success. We've seen similar early success from MMO titles such as Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, only to see interest wane after a couple of months.

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Still, if these early numbers are any indication, the ubiquitous World of Warcraft MMORPG might have some decent competition next year.

This story originally published on Mashable here.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/videogames/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20111227/tc_mashable/star_wars_the_old_republic_is_off_to_a_very_good_start

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