Will you ever support anything EA again?

You are only as good as your last game.


(also Bioware != Bioware EA - the company that made KOTOR basically isn't the same one that made SWTOR anymore than Bethesda making SWTOR would have been)

Yes. SWTOR needed 200 million because it's a unique cookie. Unlike previous games, SWTOR is voiced by professional voice actors.

And if this was Activision or Atari publishing this game, you'd be hating on them instead of EA. It's the same pointless circle all over again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=573UAJjrY6w

Their last game to be released was Mass Effect 3 and I loved that game. I was disappointed in the original ending but the ending DLC moved me emotionally (That's a good thing).

Bioware = Bioware EA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioware#Games

Please tell me you're not comparing a game released in '96 for DOS or Windows 95, to a game released in 2011/2012 for Windows 7... Please tell me...

Well I've never bought EA game before, but I bought SWTOR because it is MMO after all
For the rest of their games there are other ways ^_^

Just saying they paid proffessional actors to actually ACT (really badly ) in those days. 200M seems a lot just for voice acting.

I understand that SWTOR is " unique cookie " as you stated it but I dont think that game needed as much of VO as it has now just because that overall ammount of VO in the game will not be crucial to the matter will this game fail or succeed.
Would be much better in fact if they spended less on the VO work and more in some more important aspects for MMOS like gameplay features, world design and endgame activities.

And nobody would hate anyone if publisher havent pushed Bioware ( in this case EA ) to release game prematurely before game was finished and ready for release and without some features which are considered as standard for all MMOS released at this time ( dungeon finder , achievement system , dual specs etc ) and than after game was released on first sign of the crisis when subs started to drop layed off devs and openly stated how TOR is not on their list of priority games pushing game into FTP.

Why not? You said professional voice actors... This is even better bc its live action cut scenes with full costumes. Pretty awesome for 96. Wonder how much that cost? Not 200 million...

Why does everyone point a finger at EA for SWTOR issues, I'm not saying EA are not at fault.

EA bought out Bioware so the major shareholders at Bioware must have agreed the deal, if they had any reservations regarding how EA work then they should not have sold out to them. So Bioware must take equal blame as well.

As none of us work for either company (or at least not at board level), so nobody knows who did what regarding launch etc etc, but as EA are the parent company they take the blame. It could be Bioware's DEVs said to EA yep we will be ready for lauch date no worries. EA reply OK we'll market and get all production ready for that date , only for the DEVs to come back 2 weeks before launch and say hmmm guys we wont be ready we have quite a few bugs and will have to drop some content we wanted in launch!!!! now of course this is just maybe what happened, but who knows?

So yes I will still buy EA products which interest me, and to all the people who say no never again yet still play this game well that's just sad. If you hate EA that much at least have the balls to say never going to put any more money in the company. You would not buy a car and drive it, if you hated it or would you?