{"id":10761,"date":"2011-03-18T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"starwars-beta-hits-1-5-million-signups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/10761-starwars-beta-hits-1-5-million-signups","title":{"rendered":"StarWars beta hits 1.5 million signups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>EA previously stated that its upcoming Star Wars based MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, requires just 500,000 subscribers to be &#8220;substantially profitable&#8221;. Early beta signups are three times this number according to EA CFO Eric Brown.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next phase will be to expand the beta testing,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;Up until now, it&#8217;s been the EA friends and family testing program. We need to expand the testing universe, make it more open. &hellip; The good news is that we have well over a million, closer to one and a half million people registered, opted-in, who are happy to step up and be beta testers. North of a million demand to do some free testing is a great indicator of the interest level in the franchise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you look at the Western world, so this is North America plus Europe only, we&#8217;d estimate there are about 12 million people or so playing one or more MMOs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Roughly half are playing World of Warcraft&hellip;so there&#8217;s 12 million people to go after, 6 million of whom are playing one game and 6 million are playing a combination of other games. And then there&#8217;s obviously an opportunity in Asia.&#8221; That&#8217;s great, except Blizzard announced a little while back that it currently has over 12 million people paying monthly subscription fees to play World of Warcraft.<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a million beta testers lined up to get in on the The Old Republic beta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}