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

Game will be dead far before feb 2013 unless they make drastic changes.

These types of caveats are common across MMO numbers. If all companies fudge and weasel a wee bit (which they obviously will do whenever they can), then the fudging anmd weaselling cancels out and the numbers still give a valid comparison.

By standard MMO to MMO comparisons (with all of them fudging and weaselling as much as they can get away with ) SWTOR is undoubtedly doing very well at 1.7m.

I stand by a slight dip to come, down to about 1.5m, as the lot who are really disgruntled finally leave, and then a rise to 2m or slightly over by the end of the year.

In before cries of "oh but Blizzard wouldn't fudge or weasel!"

Oh no, a company that regularly quotes 10 or 11 million subscribers, when the majority of them are actually pay as you go "subscriptions" via Asian internet cafes isn't fudging and weaselling.

(What's that I hear? Blizz don't "have" to do that because they do have a genuine 3-4 mil proper subscriptions? True, but then no company has to fudge or weasel, but they all do, it's like a nervous tic.)

The devs for this game seem incompetent; I predict the number to keep falling.

I really think the entire dev team would benefit if the bioware CEO would pitch in an give them all blizzcon tickets. Think of how much they can learn during dev brain sharing sessions.

Dumb >.>

yes they could learn how to dumb down the game to the point kids with cerebral palsy breeze through it and how to shoehorn decade old internet memes into their advertising campains

Too bad there's no blizzcon this year, huh?

They still have the opportunity to grow. I guess it depends on if they add in features that people like and don't mind doing over and over.

Or how to actually fix bugs in a timely manor.

It wasn't so easy in the beginning and took 5 years+ to become hello panda island.

Give this game some time its new. With the easiness of this game now in 7 years DS LFR would seem like Ultra nightmare mode in comparison.

Were a month into the game... holy cow. And we've already got new FP's and a huge update planned for March.

I see the clueless haters are still going strong.

Funny stuff to read in this thread.