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

Update: EA corporate communications sent the following statement to Joystiq: “EA is growing and looking to hire hundreds of people for our digital, console, mobile and social games. Like all game companies, we make occasional adjustments to resize teams as projects are completed and new priorities are established. Overall, we expect that headcount will be up at the end of this year.”

Enough said.
Stop it with this Conspiracy theories.. People only laugh at you for it.
And Bf3 got back development cost and more... Don't believe everything you hear, or read unless it's coming from EA.

Just saw this on CVG.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...lt-in-layoffs/

"and Star Wars: The Old Republic, which received similar treatment and has supposedly already seen subscription numbers decline, are big contributing factors to the cuts."

http://startupgrind.com/2012/04/excl...500-employees/
This one is a bit more in depth.

http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012...ort-unit-sales
This seems to be more focused on the stock from EA and seems to lean both ways.

It seems EA have had a poor financial year due to BF3 and SWTOR.

I have found this on several other sites, it seems to be reliable.

I don't want to start a flame war or an "I told you so" thread. Instead, I was wondering what people would like to see to maybe improve the player base.
I am one of the people that is on the fence, I have around 90 days or so left on my sub but am, as of yet, not convinced to renew it.
Following the new "world event" (which I though was good mostly) maybe this is the way forward?
So lets hear it, what would it take (for those that aren't sure or maybe have already cancelled) to bring you back?
For those that are already commited, what more things would you like improved or added?

Lets try and keep it on track and pleasant ok?

Ok, weigh in.

The fact is that TOR is dying, even the press in the last few days have finally turned on TOR and are calling it what it is a bad game.

From the looks of things BioWare is going to be losing most of the Dev's here very soon, the player base is going to drop down come this week as people see 1.2 hasn't changed anything and has made everything worse. The plague was a bad idea and is upsetting most of the player base.

The death blow to TOR is coming as well, everyone I've talked to really wants to play Secret World. Guild Wars 2 is already being looked at as what will be one of the best games of the year. And Diablo 3 is well Diablo 3 we all know how well it will do.

So no nothing can save TOR, it's too little and too late to save it.

Update: EA corporate communications sent the following statement to Joystiq: “EA is growing and looking to hire hundreds of people for our digital, console, mobile and social games. Like all game companies, we make occasional adjustments to resize teams as projects are completed and new priorities are established. Overall, we expect that headcount will be up at the end of this year.”

Enough said.
Stop it with this Conspiracy theories.. People only laugh at you for it.
And Bf3 got back development cost and more... Don't believe everything you hear, or read unless it's coming from EA.

"The site claims Battlefield 3, which it spent $30 million marketing and only generated $13 million from, and Star Wars: The Old Republic, which received similar treatment and has supposedly already seen subscription numbers decline"

Eh, I don't claim that subs haven't dropped, but nobody has numbers. At least some figures were provided for BF3.

No, GW2 is different and that is the key.

World of Warcraft came out and was a stellar huge success because it was different then its predecessor.

However every MMO since WoW is basically a WoW clone, this is especially true of SWTOR.

If you want to get players attention you need to do something different, not the same thing they already have.

The game that will beat WoW is the game that is not like WoW.

GW2 has the most innovation we have seen in any MMO since Ultima Online, or perhaps EQ, but definately more then WoW. GW2 has the chance to be the next step because they understand this fact. Innovation is key, GW2 is its own game, it is almost nothing at all like WoW.

So we should believe everything that is said by EA?

Well Mr.Lemming EA love you (not coming from EA)