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Old Republic Subscribers Hit 1.7M, Sales Topple 2M

Star Wars: The Old Republic seems to be off to a hot start. EA said today the game has generated 1.7 million active subscribers since launch. Additionally, the publisher said its new MMO has sold through more than 2 million units to date.

"Star Wars: The Old Republic is developing a committed community of players with more than 1.7 million active subscribers and growing," said EA CEO John Riccitiello.

Star Wars: The Old Republic launched on December 20 in North America and Europe.

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  • The sales are strong with this one.
  • Seems like a great game I need to try it.
  • So the missing .3 million is stock sitting in stores somewhere? Or just users that haven't gotten around to installing the game yet?
  • Just paid for another month a few days ago. Still enjoying it. ^_^
  • I have fun with it.

    Too bad I don't always have time to have that fun.  :-)

    Good game though.

  • I keep hearing this game is boring as hell.
  • I want to try it, but IDK. I've heard it's FANTASTIC... But I've always had an issue with subscription based games. For example, I played WoW for about 6 months... I put quite a bit of time into it, but I put less time into it then, lets say, Skyrim... Yet it cost me almost twice as much dinero as Skyrim did.
  • I quit wow last year and got a life...but when I move next semester I'm so gonna get this game...glad to see it doin so well..:-)
  • i'm getting it friday!!!

  • I loved KOTOR, but have no interest in this game.

  • Considering it's Star Wars... Yup, makes sense.

  • Yah, I think the Star Wars brand is carrying the game. From a technical standpoint, it's very dated. Felt like I was playing a new old game... Not worth a subscription at this point IMO.

    Guild Wars 2 seems worth a subscription, but doesn't have one. Funny how things work in this world, huh?...

  • It's got a plethora of bugs but I enjoy it!

    I don't like the pvp grind at 50 which is clearly WoW inspired. I like the PvE though

  • theyll probably raise the level caps soon in a next expansion for it ill probably get it wen i get my alienware desktop this year

  • Seems like a nice start but it seems 300,000 people bought the game and quit playing it after just over a month...  Not sure if this is a normal thing with MMOs but one month seems like a short time to play a MMO.  Wondering if more people will cancel their subscriptions  or if it will just go up from here.

  • Mod

    Good for them. I want to pick this up at some point and join the rest of my friends that have lost their lives to this game.

  • Really want this, but have never got myself to pay the subscription, if sales keep going it might convince me.

  • I plan on picking up my copy as soon as it is released on MAC

  • Way to go, Bioware!!  Another gem in the collection!

  • Excellent.  I'm happy to be one of them.

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