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Really? So, you haven't experienced any server downtime due to the dev's patching fixes to broken patches, and don't agree that this actually happened? You haven't experienced the fact that harbinger went offline when all other servers were fine and disagree that it actually happened? You haven't experienced that space combat is on rails, or you disagree that this is the case? you haven't experienced having to load between your ship and and the planet or between instances and disagree that it happens? Your experience is that the player base isn't quite friendly and that the immature people are in the minority? (or you disagree that this is the case?) Really, if you claim that have not experienced any of the OP's remarks or disagree with all of the OP's remarks... that seems a rather untenable position.

Ah, so they had the 3rd most subs for about 3 months, and then dropped to 4th. Nice catch. you did not qualify the statement in that paragraph with the word "western" No mention of western in that paragraph. In order for that to be a true claim you'd need that "western" qualifier again. The point remains: the reality is that you're adding qualifiers to make it look like SWG was actually successful; compared to the games that before it, SWG had virtually no staying power and compared to games after it, SWG had a very small player base. The one where you didn't say western.

Can they do it when the game loses 20-25% of it's player base in a quarter? Chat bubbles, among other things.

No, 2nd most was lineage2; 3rd most was EQ and then 4th most was SWG. You have to add qualifiers to make it actually be the 2nd most. the reality is that SWG had a very short spike in subscriptions (2 years) and then crashed and burned when the norm for successful MMOs was holding steady for 6-8+ years .... and even at it's best it barely edged out a game that was released in the previous decade... There's no western bit to ignore in that claim; there was a "western" qualifier in the pervious one, but not the one that about "> 1 million subs pre wow" .

he's just upset because he didn't get a chance to get in on it before it was cool.

and basically none of the new content would have voiceover.

You left out a lot of them. Among them: UO was nearly as popular as SWG, even at SWG's peak see http://web.archive.org/web/20110714105823/http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart2.html http://web.archive.org/web/20110714105201/http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart3.html

meh, it barely edged out a game that was 6 years older than it, and never touched the one that was 4 years older than it. No, both lineage and lineage 2 had more than 1 million before wow launched. You can qualify that with "western mmo" but that throwing qualifiers on it like that is bordering on doublespeak.

No, there aren't any quotation marks, and no reference to Lincoln in the post that you quoted (unless I just scanned it too quick to notice it), so the text that you quoted isn't marked as a quote of Lincoln. So that means he's not misquoting, he's paraphrasing. So he paraphrased Lincoln. the successful ones didn't feel empty when the game had only been out for 6 months... No, that definitely wasn't the case in other MMOs. Easy example: in EQ, the low level zones had people in them even after multiple expansions had occurred. Crushbone, oasis, and similar old world zones were pretty heavily populated even after the 3rd expansion, and the kunark zones remained populated long after that.

The idea that the quality of the content is better than other themepark mmos (let alone significantly better) is laughable at best.

most of them...

Indeed, and people don't want to because it's useless. the fact that the current lfg tool is useless for some people does not not mean that SWTOR is "not the game for them" ... it just means that the current lfg tool is useless...

Eh, I 'm sure he's just as capable of guessing as you are. Without official numbers it's kind of silly to claim that it's a tiny fraction

Come back in 3 months...