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GreySix
04.30.2012 , 11:51 AM | #581
Personally, I think SWTOR will make their money on the game sales and subscriptions they already have up to this point. Then within the next few months they'll trim down the number of servers and keep a small core of dedicated players along with a rotating base of casual players that want that Star Wars feel. Not a big "WoW-killer" by any means, but successful enough.

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Mallorik
04.30.2012 , 11:53 AM | #582
Quote: Originally Posted by Bolverok View Post
I love this game a lot but it's to late for me to re-roll on another server. Especially since I am almost positive they won't be transferring your legacy system over and maybe not even all your alts. So yes I defiantly say too little to late as well, and if you can't see why me and other people keep saying this its because you don't have 20-40 people on your server at peak times, yes server not fleet. I love to pvp in this game on top of rolling multiple alts, but I just can't wait 2 hours for a que, its too much. It is not just me either, everyone of the light servers populations has dropped tremendously over the last 3 weeks, to the point where the population is just to low to do anything. Yeah great that 1.3 will have a LFG tool in it, but unless its x-server its absolutely pointless for all the light servers. Lets que up and see who out of 20 people want to do the same dungeon I want...... hm.....ya absolutely no one. Its of my opinion that they also need merge servers and bring it to like 10 healthy servers. I don't care if there is a 1 hour que. As long as there is **** to do when I get in the game I would be stoked. Yes I think this game is great, yes I think they are going in a great direction, however they are killing their own game and sub numbers by letting everyone who isn't on 5 servers just unsub for the lack of no population. In the end Bioware only has itself to blame for killing this game. Unless there is a server merge with the next two-four weeks this game will fade away into the nothing. Which makes me a sad panda, no wow reference intended. I will most likely be playing Tera or Firefall, or GW2, but I must say I wasn't impress this last weekend not one bit.
I dont know where you heard about them not tranfering your legacy but im pretty sure they will as they did do it with the asia transfers and have said multiple times that they would tranfer.

Hell if they would just make legacies tranferable or game wide right now or as soon as possible it would save them some people leaving the game before they finaly get transfers up and running.

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JeramieCrowe
04.30.2012 , 11:53 AM | #583
Quote: Originally Posted by Mallorik View Post
And this is where we disagree, I think it is very close to that point. With servers in the shape they are in are seriously hurting this game and that is only one problem (but by far the largest) this game has right now. Now consider the overhead cost of this game and how much more successful it has to be than say Rift to have a future.
They need 500k to stay afloat, as per last year's conference call, maybe 800k to make a small profit. There is currently 1.7 million (as of last week). Things are coming to improve that, as well as a recent launch into several more countries, and a probable launch into China.

That help put it into perspective?
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Bolverok
04.30.2012 , 11:57 AM | #584
Your high if you think 1.7 million people play swtor.

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Mallorik
04.30.2012 , 11:57 AM | #585
Quote: Originally Posted by GreySix View Post
Personally, I think SWTOR will make their money on the game sales and subscriptions they already have up to this point. Then within the next few months they'll trim down the number of servers and keep a small core of dedicated players along with a rotating base of casual players that want that Star Wars feel. Not a big "WoW-killer" by any means, but successful enough.
Yeah but i dont think swtor can be swtor with a small core of players, i dont see EA shelling out the big bucks for a fully voiced expansion for a game that doesnt have big sub numbers.

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Urael
04.30.2012 , 11:57 AM | #586
Quote: Originally Posted by Mrpoodles View Post
hope people stop making posts about it now and be happy for once.


LOL. Like this will happen.

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GreySix
04.30.2012 , 11:58 AM | #587
Quote: Originally Posted by Mallorik View Post
Yeah but i dont think swtor can be swtor with a small core of players, i dont see EA shelling out the big bucks for a fully voiced expansion for a game that doesnt have big sub numbers.
Think add-ons would have to lose the voice-overs. Heck, have droids brief the missions.

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Mallorik
04.30.2012 , 12:02 PM | #588
Quote: Originally Posted by Bolverok View Post
Your high if you think 1.7 million people play swtor.
Yeah i cant argue with you if you believe swtor has 1.7m people playing it.

When i heard them state that they had 1.7m subs and werent losing subs right after they gave almost everyone a free month i stopped believing anything these devs said. Maybe its because i played eq1 6 years and most people who dealt with Verrant (later soe) devs have an automatic distrust of anything devs say.

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HeavensAgent
04.30.2012 , 12:03 PM | #589
Quote: Originally Posted by Bolverok View Post
Your high if you think 1.7 million people play swtor.
It is the provided figure, and with no pertinent information refuting its validity we have no reason to believe it to be false. In fact, what little data has been gathered by the community supports the figure. So yes, I do believe it and no, I am not "high."

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Mallorik
04.30.2012 , 12:06 PM | #590
Quote: Originally Posted by GreySix View Post
Think add-ons would have to lose the voice-overs. Heck, have droids brief the missions.
But besides star wars voice was the biggest thing swtor had going for it, it was going to revolutionize the genre.

If swtor gets so bad that they cant aford to release a fully voiced expansion that i think will be the point someone can say swtor failed.