The end of the arguement. Is SWTOR in decline? Can it be saved?

So they are letting people go from certain games and hire some for new games. So in effect SWTOR is losing some staff whilst new projects are taking people on.

Never said anything about TOR. People ASSUME it's TOR.

I can think of a number of EA games that could lose them money (FIFA, Madden, Fight Night, Need for Speed, and so on)

No kidding, sir. No kidding....

CCP Layoffs

Even if it WAS swtor, it still wouldn't mean anything. When games launch they have a much higher number of staff working on it, then afterwards they cut back to the core. It doesn't take as many people to maintain a game as it does to launch a game.

On Nadd's Sarc the other day, I used my fleet pass and zoned into so many people it took me a few seconds to run and be able to see my toon. Pretty much no less than 90 on the imperial fleet at any one time.

Seem to be a good amount of pubs I run into as well, and we are only a medium server. I will say that not a lot of people run FP's, but I actually think they are fun, if not just a little bit too long. I think that's the real turn off tbh.

EQ2 you could kind of choose a really short instance or a really long one based on what people had time for. I wouldn't consider any of the FP's I've been through truly short. Also, if they put in some rare rewards, like EQ2 did, that rarely dropped but were coveted you would see more people doing them.

EQ2 would put in the occassional BiS item that dropped rarely in a FP.

Our PvP q's are near instant, I would say reroll on another server if you have population problems.

blizzard laid off 600 a month or so ago, it's the overall industry, people come and people go, not the end of the world.. /shrug

Agreed. It just annoys me how EA losing money must mean TOR. The ONLY good games EA have these days are the ME franchise (Ending aside) Dead Space and well... This. IMO anyway. Maybe throw The Sims in there too.

They will not let many go from the sports franchise games they have. FIFA, Madden and others sell way too many across all major platforms to lose a lot of money. I still think that EA are disappointed that the subs have not taken off as they hopped so far.

I keep looking for the save button before fights. Or try to pause to go get a drink. Not sure if this helps but should I really be doing these things while playing an MMO?

Lack of any concrete data, and the sales figures they used for Battlefield 3 are horribly wrong.

13 million in cash? That's how many units were sold as of March....


I am no fan boy, but as an ex-analyst working for a major North American bank, I will wait until the next quarterly report comes out to comment.