Star Wars The Old Republic: Already losing momentum?

Repeated maintenances, patches that are slow to come, general weariness of players with the highest levels, more or less justified bans, too many servers and often deserted, so many reasons that could justify the disaffection of players for the BioWare MMO edited by LucasArts and Electronic Arts which has only 1.3 million subscribers with an officially estimated loss of 400.000 players since the start of the year, while EA announced in February that it had sold more than 2 million copies of the game.

Nevertheless, EA announces that the product is profitable and that the decline in the number of sustainable subscriptions is roughly offset by regular new registrations. Several analysts are already talking about the possibility for EA to switch the game to free mode while switching to a system of Freemium as we know it with Gameloft for example, that is to say with the possibility of spending (a lot) of money in-game to acquire skills, equipment, access to new areas, etc ...

LEGO has decided to exploit the popularity of the game by integrating characters and other ships in the game in its range of sets 2012. Those who know the game well know that the possibilities are almost endless and that LEGO could produce dozens of sets on this universe. But if the attendance of the game drops steadily, the number of loyal subscribers drops a little more each month and Electronic Arts lowers its ambitions for 2013, LEGO will probably not take the risk of insisting. with sets containing machines and characters ultimately too confidential to interest the average consumer for whom Star Wars is above all symbolized by the X- / Y- / B- / A-Wings and by Darth Vador, Luke, Han, Leia, Yoda and others.

The sets to be released in 2012 would remain a simple opportunistic tribute to a concept that is certainly interesting but which has had difficulty in converting regulars of classic MMOs or Star Wars fans to the monthly adventure ...