Bigpoint is one of the Biggest Publishers for F2P and Browser Games and CEO Heiko Hubertz recently stated that he believes that Star Wars – The Old Republic will never be profitable with it’s current financial concept. 414x2z
“If you look in the traditional industry there are still a lot of big bets there,” said Hubertz, keynoting the London Games Conference this evening. “Still there are companies online games for free.
“If you look at a online game for many million of subscribers, so a big publisher does not understand that a subscription model is not the future.
“With micro-transactions and longer lifetime maybe I see a chance for this game but I don’t think that EA or BioWare will be profitable with this game. Ever.”
This is quiete a counterargument to Jack Emmer who said that SWTOR might be the only game that could generate enough revenue to exist in the world of subscription based games.
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