{"id":33843,"date":"2012-03-08T17:16:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=33843"},"modified":"2012-03-08T17:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:31:52","slug":"guess-how-many-people-worked-on-star-wars-the-old-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/33843-guess-how-many-people-worked-on-star-wars-the-old-republic","title":{"rendered":"Guess how many people worked on Star Wars: The Old Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you guess 665?If you did then you\u2019re amazing!<\/p>\n<p>BioWare has revealed that exactly 665 people worked on its recently launched Star Wars themed MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic &#8211; and that\u2019s excluding voice actors.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation was made during a GDC panel discussion. BioWare also provided a detailed breakdown of the project staff count.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30 Production<\/li>\n<li>75 Designers<\/li>\n<li>80 Engineers<\/li>\n<li>40 Platform<\/li>\n<li>10 Localization<\/li>\n<li>10 Audio<\/li>\n<li>140 Artists (Both internal and outsourced)<\/li>\n<li>280 QA (Both internal and outsourced)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On top of that, 321 actors gave their voices to more than 4,094 characters. The Old Republic features more voice work than every single BioWare game prior to it combined.<\/p>\n<p>The game reportedly cost over $200 million to make. In January, EA announced that the game had upwards of two million active subscribers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"StarWars: The Old Republic\u2019s coveted white light sabers make a return\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33403-starwars-the-old-republics-coveted-white-light-sabers-make-a-return.html\">StarWars: The Old Republic\u2019s coveted white light sabers make a return<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Here\u2019s an awesome Star Wars: The Old Republic progress chart\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/32059-heres-an-awesome-star-wars-the-old-republic-progress-chart.html\">Here\u2019s an awesome Star Wars: The Old Republic progress chart<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Star Wars: The Old Republic review (PC)\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/30868-star-wars-the-old-republic-review-pc.html\">SWOTR player banned because BioWare doesn\u2019t know its memes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Star Wars: The Old Republic review (PC)\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/30868-star-wars-the-old-republic-review-pc.html\">Star Wars: The Old Republic review (PC)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioware reveals project staff numbers for Star Wars MMO development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":31075,"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":[2,3],"tags":[31,427,813,921],"class_list":["post-33843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-bioware","tag-electronic-arts","tag-star-wars-the-old-republic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33843","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=33843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33844,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33843\/revisions\/33844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}