Star Wars: The Old Republic is the fastest-growing subscription MMO in history, EA claimed over the Christmas break.
- Logged 28 million in-game hours - roughly equivalent to watching all six Star Wars movies, two million times
- Averaged well over five hours a day playing the game
- Created more than 3.8 million characters; 510,000 Jedi Knights and 550,000 Sith Warriors
- Killed more than two billion non-player characters in the eight days since Early Game Access began
According to analysts Old Republic hit the one million mark even before its official December 20 release date, and despite complaints of hefty server queues developer BioWare says it's "humbled" by the game's early popularity.
"Already over a million players strong after our Dec 20th launch, The Old Republic has become the fastest growing subscription MMO in the history of our industry," said Dr. Ray Muzyka, GM of EA's BioWare Label.
"Everyone at BioWare, EA and LucasArts is honored - and humbled - by the stellar response from our fans. We're going to work together closely with our community in the weeks, months and years ahead, continually serving our audience with regular delivery of compelling new features and content."
It should be noted that since this release went out over Christmas, the subs number is likely even higher by now. Impressive stuff.
Part one of our Star Wars: The Old Republic review went live before Christmas. Expect the second half (and a score) in the coming days.
Comments
10 comments so far...
03b2wgm on 3 Jan '12 said:
Annnnddddd I lost interest even before Early Game Access started.
lonewolf2002 on 3 Jan '12 said:
And in 2 weeks time SWTOR MMO has the fastest detach rate ever.
nologo on 3 Jan '12 said:
its good, the pvp is awesome.
Drusus on 3 Jan '12 said:
Cool story, I set up a recurring six month subscription because it's awesome. That's a cool story too.
You should write a book, call it 'Talking about things that don't interest me', subtitled 'how I waste my own time and look like a douche'.
Force choke and out the door, bye bye.
allygray69 on 3 Jan '12 said:
If they dont release a big patch and i mean a big patch in the next few weeks ( not 1.0.2) some people wont sign up for another month. Theres certainly not a great deal to do in PVP thats for sure. Im nearly in full champion gear already and im only rank 30 lol.
Cogglesz on 3 Jan '12 said:
I've got a thing for MMO's but i like to wait till i'm bored with all my games before getting into a game such as this, too much Skyrim and BF3 on the pc for me to even touch this yet, still i'll get round to it i'm sure its pretty good.
03b2wgm on 3 Jan '12 said:
Wow...no need to be rude. What I really meant was, after playing the beta and buying the game, I found that perhaps I wasn't so interested in the game after all. Oh well.
Good that you enjoy it though, just not for me.
Drusus on 3 Jan '12 said:
Oh now you made me feel bad, your first post came across like trolling but now you're all reasonable. I'm sorry dude.
Imaduck on 4 Jan '12 said:
I'd love a trial, but at the end of the day I'm pretty sure I'd get hooked, and I've decided I don't want that right now. Have a blast those involved. Know how fun MMO's can be
ted1138 on 4 Jan '12 said:
I'll wait till it goes free-to-play.