Skulle du være disponeret for lidt mere branchelæsning i dag, bør du tage et smut forbi Gamesindustry.biz, som netop har offentliggjort anden del af deres interview med Electronic Arts’ (EA) europæiske distributionschef, Jens Uwe Intat. Han er fuld af optimisme når det gælder årets spiludgivelser og det er heller ikke så underligt. EA har vel nok den stærkeste “line-up” af spil i første kvartal til dato og der er udsigt til masser af gode spiloplevelser de kommende måneder. I modsætning til bl.a. Cryptics Studios’ Jack Emmert, udelukker Intat ikke, at BioWares Star Wars: The Old Republic kan være den første seriøse trussel imod Blizzards World of Warcraft.
Dr Jens Uwe Intat: First of all, I totally agree that World of Warcraft has been a very impressive product success in the last several years. It has a very strong and loyal community.
Secondly I agree that quite a few companies, including ourselves with Warhammer Online, have tried to dethrone the game with different approaches – all trying to have some innovation on gameplay in order to lure players away from World of Warcraft.
The reason why I’m much more confident in Star Wars being able to do that then Warhammer, for example, is that while Warhammer has been a very interesting product from a games point of view, I think the Star Wars franchise has such a huge fanbase across the planet that people being able to play that as an MMO… it will be a totally different reason for buying than just buying another massively multiplayer online game.
We do feel that the title has a very strong proposal, and we’re very confident that it will be super-successful.

























