Star Wars: The Old Republic, the latest MMORPG from BioWare and Electronic Arts, already has a million registered users, and momentum seems to be picking up a week after the game's launch.
The "Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game" reached 1 million users Dec. 23, just three days after launch, and it includes users who have pre-ordered the game. Now, however, Electronic Arts has published a new set of milestones, which tell us more about how users are actually interacting with the game.
According to EA, the gamers have spent more than 60 million hours playing the game, completed 260 million quests and killed more than 3 billion non-player characters.
While EA's announcement refers to the SWTOR community as "rabid," we'd wait a little longer before declaring the game a success. We've seen similar early success from MMO titles such as Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, only to see interest wane after a couple of months.