The man who created these rumors is John Riccitiello, EA’s CEO: “We are continuing to stick to the plan relative to building out our direct-to-consumer models which include microtransactions and subscriptions. The recent launch of Warhammer is a great example of that,” he said during a conference call. “Other initiatives we’ve announced, for example Star Wars online MMO, are mid-session games which are microtransaction-based. You’ll be hearing more about those in the February call.”
So this is pretty straightforward: The Old Republic will be a microtransaction-based MMO game. However, as it usually happens, Electronic Arts have decided against confirming the story, and said to Shacknews that Riccitiello’s statement was a misunderstanding. So… what do you say? Would The Old Republic be more interesting if it were a free-to-play, microtransaction-based MMORPG?