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Typeslice
04.24.2012 , 11:44 AM | #31
Quote: Originally Posted by nevetss View Post
Are you sure its 11million? I was pretty sure it had dropped to like 9 million as it lost its 12 million it had two years ago.. I could be wrong though.
It's also estimated that only 1.5MM of the subs are in N. America.
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FeelFlow
04.24.2012 , 11:44 AM | #32
I think that the Catalysm was simply a really bad expansion - Blizzard really dropped the ball on it. They put loads of resource around revamping the 1-60 'old world' levelling - which was great - but then seemed to run out of resource when making the high levels of the expansion i.e. 80-85. Personally, I had what was nearly the dullest experience in the game (and I levelled a protection paladin to 60 in the original vanilla game so I think that I know about dull).

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04.24.2012 , 11:46 AM | #33
Quote: Originally Posted by Shingara View Post
Subs and popluation are linked, the people on the weekend may make the starter planets and possibly the capital planet more busy but not much else. the over all people playing spread across the whole servers wont go up that much.
The numbers of players participating in the trial weekends offsets the number of players leaving the game. This allows EA to show to their shareholders that swtor's population isn't declining. Do you really think EA gave out a ridiculous amount of trial weekends from the goodness in their heart?

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And the only one deluded is yourself, aparently your on a game that you state will fail and are still playing, but i half suspect you to now say that you cancled your subs and dont play but tada here you are on the forums of a game you dont like, dont want and have no interest in. Thats what i would call deluded.
Do you even understand the meaning of deluded? I'm not imposing any untruths on you; I'm simply stating the facts. If you don't want to believe me then go right ahead, but by ignoring the truth and trusting in good ol' EA you ARE deluding yourself.

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04.24.2012 , 11:46 AM | #34
Quote: Originally Posted by Mahaedros View Post
I laugh at the wow banner advertisements that seem to be on nearly every mmo-information website- especially SWTOR info websites.

Blizzard ruined their own game, and the kiddies they catered to drove millions of players away from the game.
Yes now we find a TON of those kids on SWTOR loving all their AWESOME blackcore sabers LOL.

Not sure if you are right there.
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Shingara
04.24.2012 , 11:48 AM | #35
Quote: Originally Posted by KuroshimaiHD View Post
The numbers of players participating in the trial weekends offsets the number of players leaving the game. This allows EA to show to their shareholders that swtor's population isn't declining. Do you really think EA gave out a ridiculous amount of trial weekends from the goodness in their heart?


Do you even understand the meaning of deluded? I'm not imposing any untruths on you; I'm simply stating the facts. If you don't want to believe me then go right ahead, but by ignoring the truth and trusting in good ol' EA you ARE deluding yourself.
lol the number of trials do not offset the people leaving, the people subscriping can offset the people leaving. Also your not stating facts, your stating your opinion, trying to state your opinion as solid facts is deluding yourself.
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NasherUK
04.24.2012 , 11:49 AM | #36
Blizzard / WOW is in big decline at the moment. They say they have 11 million subs but there are things they are not telling the public... Only a fraction of those are in the US and EU and the ones in Asia pay peanuts for their subscriptions (which are done on a pay-as-you-play basis and are ALL counted as active even when no one is actually playing them, because technically they all have unlimited creditt).

A friend of mine (along with a few 100 other people) got made redundant from the Blizzard offices in Ireland earlier this year. Things are not going well for them atm.

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KuroshimaiHD
04.24.2012 , 11:49 AM | #37
Quote: Originally Posted by Shingara View Post
dispute the numbers given, please do.
You want some pure, unbiased evidence? Have a check at this thread: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=429588
Actual players on dead servers. Proof enough for you?

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Angedechu
04.24.2012 , 11:50 AM | #38
It's obviously not related to be dotcom bust in Ireland....

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Acherom
04.24.2012 , 11:50 AM | #39
Pretty much nailed it, least from my perspective.
Plenty of new titles flooding the market; half of which are trying new business models that make it easier for players to try before they commit. Or (the f2p model) only make the user pay for what they feel they should pay for. (mini-shops)

Personally, I've gotten a flurry of emails from several games over the last month with tons of offers. Free this, boosted that, new other things. I'm a one game player, and SWTOR has my attention now.


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Shingara
04.24.2012 , 11:51 AM | #40
Quote: Originally Posted by KuroshimaiHD View Post
You want some pure, unbiased evidence? Have a check at this thread: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=429588
Actual players on dead servers. Proof enough for you?
what proof, i can link to a thread saying everyone get on fatman, or why are there q's on my server. so no thats not really much proof at all.
Health Warning - Thread May Contain Nuts.
First, you can continue as a subscriber, which gives you unlimited access to all game features and future Game Updates at no additional charge. http://www.swtor.com/info/news/blog/20120731
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