{"id":6183,"date":"2010-05-27T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"star-wars-the-old-republic-ea-s-most-expensive-game-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/6183-star-wars-the-old-republic-ea-s-most-expensive-game-ever","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: The Old Republic EA\u2019s most expensive game ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rather surprising piece of news, it has been revealed that EA has spent more money on the development of Star Wars: The Old Republic than it has on any other game, ever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the largest R&amp;D project EA has ever undertaken in terms of total dollars that we expect to spend bringing the title to market,&#8221; said chief financial officer Eric Brown at Janney Capital Markets&#8217; 2010 Consumer Conference.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that the game will not be released before March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Old Republic is a PC exclusive MMORG that is being developed by RPG legends Bioware. This just illustrates that the PC as a gaming platform is still very much alive and kicking, largely thanks to subscription based MMOs.<\/p>\n<p>StarWars is easily one of the most famous pieces of fiction in the western world, and the MMO holds enormous potential.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?6097-EA-s-most-expensive-to-make-game-ever-StarWars-The-Old-Republic&amp;p=229977#post229977\" target=\"_self\">Discuss StarWars: The Old Republic<\/a> in the forums<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And who said PC gaming was dying?<\/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-6183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183","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=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}