Both EA and LucasArts have confirmed to media that the target for BioWare's newly announced Star Wars: The Old Republic is to make an MMO with a larger userbase than World of Warcraft, reported by Video gaming 247.
"We have very high expectations for this," said EA Games president Frank Gibeau, speaking this week at LucasArts' HQ in San Francisco.
"Just look at the base of Star Wars fans, plus what BioWare can do. Trust me: we want to win. EA's reputation is for wanting to win.
"This is going to be a powerful category and there's lots of ways to compete in this category. [Blizzard] created a much larger opportunity for everybody else, but that doesn't mean it's going to stay that way."
LucasArts online boss Tom Nichols concurred, saying that the firm is banking on The Old Republic's storytelling component to bust through WoW's 11 million subs record.
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