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Electronic Arts is positively glowing about “Star Wars: The Old Republic’s” sales numbers.
Tuesday, during EA’s quarterly earnings call, it was revealed SWTOR had sold more than two million copies and had around 1.7 million people subscribed to the game.
In addition, around 40 percent of those copies were purchased on EA’s new digital distribution service, Origin.
In a prepared statement, CEO John Riccitiello said BioWare Austin’s game was the fastest growing subscription MMO in history.
“We’re incredibly pleased to see this great game from BioWare off to a very strong start,” Riccitiello stated.
CFO Eric Brown said SWTOR’s launch was more successful than they could have ever imagined.
“During the course of December, server performance and stability exceeded our expectations, allowing us to make more product available to our consumers at launch and through the end of the December quarter,” Brown stated.
Because of the game’s success, Brown said EA will increase the momentum and make a bigger marketing push during the fourth quarter of 2012.
President of Labels Frank Gibeau lauded the game’s server stability, saying every MMO that preceded SWTOR had instability issues during launch.
Quoting PCGamer, Gibeau said, ““BioWare hit a big homerun with server stability.”
“In summary: we nailed the launch. Adoption and daily usage among core MMO users are trending very favorably. More people are buying the game and subscribing. More content is on the way,” he later added.
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