Quote Originally Posted by Voigtkampf View Post
The schedule of EA shouldn't be affected by any possible massive failure of SW:TOR. Which is a very probable outcome.

To sum it up, for over 300 million dollars developing costs, I am certain right now that SWTOR will prove to be a bubble of even bigger proportions than Age of Conan was. But they will reel in at least half their costs at the very start, then the item shops will come, I guess they will pull even eventually. Also, have in mind that EA is loaded. Like, imagine Ron White's voice - looooaaaadeeeeed! They won't be hurt no matter which way the whole story goes.
So if they only make half the money back, they are still out 150 million dollars. That is big cash there for EA. I don't think you could say that EA won't be even more penny pinching with their developers if they lose their TOR investment.