Star Wars: The Old Republic Celebrates Fifth Anniversary with Gifts for All

@infiniin: all MMO's launch in a kinda lacking state, remember how DCUP launched?? people said it was fun but you could gain max level too fast and there was no real ending to the game.....

DLC didn't even really start coming until it hit PS3 and by then it had went free to play, after the PS3 launch DLC started coming out, I think Fight For The Light was first....they're now at the end of their powers, they added 1 new weapon in the Shield and several new powers [earth, quantum, celestial, Rage, electricity, ballistic, nuclear] and added 1 new movement type skimming [think green Goblin's glider just with colored discs below your feet, works better than it sounds] DCUO opened up into a more vibrant game, it's more lively now even since it launched on consoles.....

SWTOR is a lively game even before the first DLC came but it's very gimped on a lot of stuff and it acts more like an advertisement for their subscription plan and frankly that aspect offends me.....no other F2P MMO does that, some have subs but all operate as free games, so either EA is double dipping, production costs more than they're saying or they simply have no clue how to run a MMO which is the most likely conclusion.....

like I said there's a lot in TOR to like, it's their business that hurts any good the game can achieve....

@infiniin: You started your post by saying it's affordable for EA to fund making "more of everything" in SWTOR ... and then ended it by saying SWTOR is pretty much dead. How is it "affordable" for EA to spend a bunch of money so Bioware can make more of everything, in a game that's dead? The whole purpose of SWTOR is to MAKE money.

Also, SWTOR isn't actually dead, but it sure isn't the WoW fighter EA and Bioware thought they were making five years ago either. They copied World of Warcraft circa 2006, skinned it in Star Wars, added a bunch of voice acting and thought they couldn't lose ... but by the time they actually launched the game, the WoW model was already on it's way out. SWTOR launched as an out dated game, using an outdated payment model, and on an engine that was half busted.

EA and Bioware have done admirably saving SWTOR, all things considered, but it's not the kind of earner that get's a bunch of new Ops, and Stories, and an engine overhaul, and more of everything. It doesn't make enough money to justify the expense. That's why I said they'd need to bring it to console to justify work on that scale; opening SWTOR up to console players might actually make the investment you're talking about worth it. Maybe.