Let's do a little math on server stats

SWTOR did not have a 200 mil advertising budget is what I said. They didnt spend anywhere near that. You asked for games with a 200 mil budget. I give you one example and you just bash it start playing semantics. Fact is like I said before a LOT of games have 200 mil budgets be it advertising, licensing or development (or all of the above).

Wonder how much it cost bliz to get chuck norris, that worked out well for them didnt it what were the other ones, was one with a chic or something

Chuck Norris works cheap I hear hehe.

Mr. T was the best one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqJE5TH5jhc

Mr t was when it made a difference, i expected him to throw a snickers at me.

We need mohawks in this game. I think the main reason EA stock is down is they dont have nightelf mohawks.

Errrrr we have them. and my khem ate all the night elfs, and dwarves, and gnomes, undeads and every other race you can think of. he still is not full but blood elfs run like girls and he cant catch them due to laughter fits.

Best commercial since then "Terry crews"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ziwz5Ltn-w

Terry Crews +TOR commercial = Best video-game commercial [period]

Stock prices always rise when there is word of a potential buy off. In order to take over a company you have to buy all the outstanding shares. That means that the demand for the stock will increase. And when people are more willing to buy the stock the price of the stock goes up because it incentizes short term investors to put in their money.

Then when the buy-out happens they investors make a tidy sum of money as Capital gains, which only has 15% tax rate instead of a 30% + tax rate that regular income tax comes with.

That's the short version.

If the prices came back down today then it might be because of speculation that the buy back isn't going to happen.