BioWare Would Take a Mulligan on Old Republic Launch

Speaking to The Old Republic fansite TORWars, BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk admitted that he'd take a do-over on the high-profile MMO's launch if he had the opportunity.

“I think we would definitely do it over again given the opportunity, or a time machine," Zeschuk said. "I think we can see a lot of things we could have done differently given the benefit of retrospective vision, but I also don’t think we would have changed many decisions."

"It would more have been a process of refinement and fine tuning to our plans. Certainly testing even more than we did, and doing so earlier would have been a good goal. I also think in retrospect we would have been able to weight some of our technical decisions differently given that we ultimately knew what worked after the fact and what needed a lot of work; there was no way of knowing that in advance, but in retrospect that would have helped quite a bit.”

While The Old Republic has been met with overwhelmingly positive reviews, the MMO was plagued with a few serious issues at launch. While it may not have been the funniest goof, the biggest stumbling block was unquestionably the product of unexpected demand, with reports of long queue times and a last-minute delay of the Australian launch leaving many in the cold.