The Old Republic - Multiboxing Speculation

[Kaelika]

anyone heard of a release date? all i've seen so far is spring 2011 but nothing concrete.

The latest official word can be found here:

Star Wars: The Old Republic is expected to launch this year after the close of EA's fiscal 2011 (which ends March 31st, 2011). Information on the release date and pre-order programs will be released as it becomes available

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Around the time of PAX East, Bioware stopped saying they were targeting the aforementioned spring release window. At PAX, they would only say "2011." Also, in the interview with Ohlen I linked in an above post, this was stated:

Ask A Jedi: Ok, final question, but I gotta ask… is the game still on track for release this year, 2011?
James Ohlen: Yep, we’re aiming 2011!

I'd also recommend taking a look at this article from Darth Hater:

Today Eric Brown, CFO of Electronic Arts, spoke at the Lazard Capital Markets Technology & Media Conference. The topic of Star Wars: The Old Republic was once again brought up and one of the many interesting things said by Brown was, "So we said it's going to launch sometime in calendar, but not within Fiscal '11. So that basically pens down between you know, April 1st and December 31st of this calendar year. It is also reasonable to infer that it's not in our Q1 guidance. We gave Q1 Fiscal 11, Fiscal 12 non-GAAP revenue guidance, minus 39 minus 44 cents and I think it's not unreasonable to infer that it's not included in that 90 day period."

This indicates that the game most likely won't release before the 1st of July.

You can find the official release "speculation" thread here.