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Report: EA Investors Betting Against Star Wars MMO

By james_fudge

Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey says that EA investors are betting against Star Wars: The Old Republic. He says the mood among investors - who are familiar with the MMO space - is pessimistic. This despite the fact that - at least in the eyes of gamers - the game has two things going for it: it is being developed by BioWare and uses a powerful IP.

Hickey says that the main concern among EA's investors is how difficult the MMO space is right now, and what an enormous risk it is to launch a title of this scale. Add to that the fact that a lot of major MMO's are going to free-to-play and that it will inevitably have to compete with World of Warcraft, you can understand the negativity of people that put the money down.

"We believe many investors are betting against SWTOR achieving market success, provided the company's (Warhammer Online from Mythic) and industry's track record at releasing successful new MMOs," says Hickey. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).