{"id":9627,"date":"2011-01-25T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ea-investors-pessimistic-about-star-wars-the-old-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/9627-ea-investors-pessimistic-about-star-wars-the-old-republic","title":{"rendered":"EA investors pessimistic about Star Wars: The Old Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/32605\/Analyst_Wary_EA_Investors_Betting_Against_SWTOR.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a>, analyst Mike Hickey claims that EA&rsquo;s investors are &ldquo;betting against&rdquo; the upcoming Star Wars themed MMO, StarWars: The Old Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The investors apparently understand just how fickle the MMO market is, and realise full well that despite World of Warcraft&rsquo;s startling success, nothing else has ever come remotely close it replicating it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe many investors are betting against SWTOR achieving market success, provided the company&#8217;s and industry&#8217;s track record at releasing successful new MMOs,&#8221; suggests Hickey, probably referring to EA&rsquo;s previous attempt to claim a slice of the MMO pie with Warhammer Online, which although achieving a reasonable degree of critical acclaim and commercial success, did not even make a dent in Blizzard&rsquo;s growing MMO empire.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, EA has previously revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/6183-Star-Wars-The-Old-Republic-EAs-most-expensive-game-ever.html?src=hf  \" target=\"_self\">The Old Republic is its most expensive<\/a> to develop game ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betting against EA&#039;s upcoming MMORPG<\/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-9627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627","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=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}