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If investor financial calls are not your thing, you’velucked out because I took a listen and I will on the important bits toyou.
The conference happened at 1:10P PT / 4:10P ET and containeda lot of the usual boring bits. I entertained myself messing around on Twitter a bit and waiting forgood parts.
One of the most interesting questions was in regards toSWTOR:
Q:Can you give any updates on how pre-orders and awareness level are trackingagainst your milestones and what are some of the factors that could push alaunch into early next year rather than late this year on a calendar basis?
And the answer:
“”Withoutbeing specific about the number of pre-orders, but what I can tell you is thatthe first, I think, five days or so that we opened for pre-orders, we racked upmore pre-orders on Star Wars fan base.
What did EA have to say in regards to release dates?
“In of timing, again, we haven’t given a street date yet. We won’t do so forsome time, possibly at our next earnings call towards the end ofOctober.”
They reiterated once again that the most important thing wasquality and making sure they do not push for a release too soon, thus affecting experience and quality of the game. So really, there was nothing new thatwe have not already heard.
With one exception… there was one little phrase that causedmany fans to panic:
“Butwe did hold out a slight possibility that it could slip to our March quarter.”
Stephen Reid postedon the official forums to remind us all that we should not make too much ofthings that we hear on investor calls. He stated again that nothing has changedin regards to release date and that they are still looking at a holiday 2011release time. So again, we are being told to expect release around Nov-Dec2011.
If you’d like, you can hear the full call for yourself atthe Electonic Artsinvestor site.
