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During EA’s most recent earnings call company CFO Eric brown discussed the future of The Old Republic and noted it will not be released during EA’s fiscal year 2011.
“We are not assuming that we bring a major new MMO to market in fiscal ‘11. We will continue to increase significant development cost as we prepare this title for launch.”
he said.
Only several weeks have passed since LucasArts and BioWare confirmed the game was supposed to be launched in Spring 2011. There’s also more talk about development cost and other things, but bottomline is the game will not launch before March 31, 2011. April or May are still possible, but like with every MMO game it’s likely to be pushed even further.
Brown concluded that they were not revealing a specific date for the game. Let’s just hope the wait will be worth it.
Ok, Just saw this on linked on another site. I don’t know if you’ve been told this yet, so I apologize if you have. Anyway, my intention is not to be a “know-it-all dick” I just want to correct your information, for your benefit. Here goes,
Let me explain the difference between Fiscal Year and Calendar Year.
EA’s 2011 Fiscal Year runs from April 1, 2010 – March 31, 2011
So, when EA says it won’t launch the game in FY 2011, they have not changed anything.
In January, when EA CEO John Riccitello had the shareholder conference call, he said the same thing. It probably won’t launch in FY 2011. He did say it would probably launch in Q1 FY 2012. A day later, Sean Dahlberg confirmed that the game’s target release window was Calendar Year, Spring 2011.
EA’s Q1 FY 2012 is Spring 2011.
So, this game has not now, nor has it ever been pushed back. Spring 2011(Q1 FY 2012) is the only release window that has ever been announced.
Hope this clears up any confusion, cheers.