joystiq.com - 12/10/2008
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Hoping to turn midi-chlorians into monetary maneuvers, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello revealed in today's investor call that BioWare's upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic will be "a mid-session game, microtransaction-based. You'll be hearing more about those in the February ...
shacknews.com - 12/10/2008
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shacknews.com —
Publisher Electronic Arts today classified BioWare's upcoming Star
Wars MMO The Old Republic as a "microtransaction-based" title,...
indicating that the game will include alternative financial models other than a subscription fee. "We are continuing to ...
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BioWare's Star Wars MMO to be 'Microtransaction-based,' ...
massively.com - 12/10/2008
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massively.com —
Filed under: Sci-fi , Business models , New
titles , Star Wars: The Old Republic To end...
a somewhat surprisingly eventful day for the RMT and microtrasaction model, EA has announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic will not be subscription-based. ...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic to be microtransaction-based
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SW:TOR and RMT, awesome!
Hardcore Casual —
... Well we can officially move on from this potential MMO baby jesus, looks like SW:TOR is going to have RMT. Sweet, I can’t wait to afk grind sci-fi foozles while chugging $5 xp potions wearing my $10 hot pink R2D2 suit. ...
And Then There Was SWTOR…
The Ancient Gaming Noob —
... And then EA announced yesterday that Star War: The Old Republic was going to be microtransaction based. Or maybe they didn’t.
There were both positive and negative reactions to this.
My own thought was, “Does that make it ‘Battlefield Heroes‘ in space? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?”
So summing up, my reaction to SOE’s RMT announcement was, “Meh.”
My reaction to this retracted announcement merely dropped a letter and came up as, ...
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mmognation.com 12/10/2008 — SWTOR is going to be microtransaction-based.
"The Star Wars online MMO [is a] mid-session game, microtransaction-based. You'll be hearing more about those in the February [conference] call." According to the game news site, "Mid-session" refers to ...
Mid-Session Game —
Kill Ten Rats
EA CEO John Riccitiello said in a recent conference call that the upcoming BioWare MMO is a mid-session game, which are microtransaction based. This caused quite a wave throughout the MMO news sphere, but EA came back to claim that their CEO is full of misunderstandings.
I tried to do a ...
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Emerald Tablet
I predicted more than two years ago that Sony would enter the microtransaction market. In essence a microtransaction is an exchange of real world dollars for digital aesthetic materials in a virtual economy — I guess it could be for a tangible (or valueable) item as well, but that opens ...
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