You do not need to know the release date. These are not the Bioware employees you were looking for.To wit, EA’s fourth quarter investor call today stated The Old Republic’s launch date is “expected to launch in either Q2 FY12 or Q3 FY12,” which would be the second half of 2011. EA CEO John Riccitiello said during an investor call, however, ”The launch date, while in our fiscal year (before March, 2012), is not yet certain.”
EA’s CFO Eric Brown muddled the picture even further, saying, ”While we fully anticipate launching Star Wars: The Old Republic in Q2 or Q3, the low end of our guidance range assumes the outside possibility of a January launch.”
When your Chief Executive Officer and your Chief Financial Officer contradict each other, it means they haven’t gotten their story straight with each other and Bioware hasn’t given them any confidence that the MMO will be finished soon.
Stay tuned.
