NOW = 1.7 Million Active Subscribers | 3 Months from now = Guess What

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Are you blind? People are leaving in huge numbers. Most servers are ghost towns.

Or is this a trap....

Im not calling for the death of TOR but seems to me the server pops dropping, not growing during prime time from what Ive seen!

Ive seen 1 heavy server in the last 3 weeks and I routinely log in around 7 pm est every day!

So Im going to guess at the end of 3 months they will be around 1.1-1.3 million subscribers.

Which is still reasonable to be honest.

Typically MMORPGs that release strong have a drop for the following 6-9 months and then once the short term players weeded out they grow or fail after that on word of mouth.

Even the much vaulted WOW lost subs for the first 9 months after release before turning it around and growing their playerbase (and they had the ultra blind battlenet fanbois to prop them up with).

Long as TOR doesnt lose more then 50% of its first 2 month subs (pre launch and 1 st 1.5 month sales) its doing ok.

If it starts dropping 70%-80% of its subs by end of 3rd month like SWG did, then its in trouble.

TOR long term success will live and die on its updates and first expansion.

Fun game but simply to easy and quick to hold initial player sales much past the 6 month mark at the latest.

The updates and promise of first expansion is going to have to bring in the long term sales as TOR was designed (wrongly IMO) as a short term game.

But Im sure the haters will say Im wrong and predict much harsher failure and the fanbois will claim Im wrong and say TOR is greatest thing since slice bread. That seems to be the trend on these forums.



PS: If EA/Bioware starts offering free trials with in the 3 month period (really with in the 24 month period), expect RIFT type results.

Free trials 3 months after release are a death sentance to a MMORPG and send a clear message that this game can not hold its players long term.

May as well offer up Lifetime subs while they at it.

Funny considering population on Lord Praven is still increasing noticably on a daily basis (multiple fleet instances were unheard of for Republic in December - now we get it all the time).

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Are you blind? People are leaving in huge numbers. Most servers are ghost towns.

Or is this a trap....

The forums would probably have you beleive that wouldnt they. Its amazing how much more delusional naysayers get when good news comes along.

We all told you guys you were delusional before the numbers were released but now "everything is a conspiracy" and "everybody is lying".

lol its actually pretty funny.

To suggest that people are not leaving is just crazy.

Of course people are leaving :/ There are over 2m copies sold and only 1.7m active players. If you think anyone suggests that noone has left then you must be crazy.

While that may or may not be true, the rest of the game appears to be dieing a slow, painful death.

To suggest that people are not leaving is just crazy. The Corsair was busy, now it's a ghost town just like 90% of the other servers.

They are looking at server merges/closures already. Not good.

Ok, a LOT of people are leaving. Server merges/closures are already needed. That is a really bad sign for a game this new. I haven't seen anything like this since Warhammer.

Could you link your source that say they are looking at server mergers and closures already?

Link your source for server mergers please