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EzoEo
05.07.2012 , 02:18 PM | #11
Quote: Originally Posted by Theology View Post
And this is after they launched in 38 new countries.

Ouch.
The 38 new countries won't be in this report since was for the last financial quater. Still 1.4m retention is better than Age of Conan, Rift and other recent MMOs that launched.

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Master-Nala
05.07.2012 , 02:18 PM | #12
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Dead my ***.
Exactly what I thought. John Smedley would have killed his own mother with a broken lawn chair to have 1.3 million subs in SWG's day.
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MarkoJinn
05.07.2012 , 02:18 PM | #13
Hmmm not sure what to think about this... Losing player base is bad of course but does this qualify as the initial drop off common in all MMOs or is this just too much? What do you folks think?
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Angedechu
05.07.2012 , 02:19 PM | #14
1.3 millions subs after launch is good, guys.

Not good : VERY good.

Of course, it's worth wondering if all those 1.3 millon actually play.

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Frostvein
05.07.2012 , 02:19 PM | #15
Quote: Originally Posted by Rayla_Felana View Post
Dead my ***.
And this is after they launched in 38 new countries.


Edit - someone says it doesn't count. Fair enough. still down from 2.2 mil to 1.3
Meanwhile, in Tera general chat -

"The sad thing is, arguing with fanbois on the forums was more entertaining than their 300 million dollar single player MMO from 2008"

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Urael
05.07.2012 , 02:19 PM | #16
For those that don't want to read the whole article.

Quote:
The company said sales in the recent quarter were primarily driven by the hit new release “Mass Effect 3,” as well as “FIFA Street 4,” “SSX” and “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.”

But “Star Wars: The Old Republic” showed signs of weakening. EA said active subscribers totaled 1.3 million at the end of the quarter — down 24% from the 1.7 million reported at the end of the December period, when the game first launched.
Telling?

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SajmanPeetee
05.07.2012 , 02:20 PM | #17
1.3 mill active subscribers doesn't even seem like a drop to me. You have to figure alot of people cancelled as soon as their free 30 days started. Some of those will resub for sure when their free time runs out.

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Rayla_Felana
05.07.2012 , 02:21 PM | #18
Quote: Originally Posted by MarkoJinn View Post
Hmmm not sure what to think about this... Losing player base is bad of course but does this qualify as the initial drop off common in all MMOs or is this just too much? What do you folks think?
Four million is a big loss, but I think that size of a retention is great and shuts down the doomsayer trolls quite strongly.

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MasterKayote
05.07.2012 , 02:21 PM | #19
1.3 million? Not bad. Probably the only other MMO ever to stay above a million subs after a few months of release.

That said ... Daniel Erickson is a LIAH!!!!!

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Sabilok
05.07.2012 , 02:21 PM | #20
I think the way that the servers feel is a bad thing. It seems as if they intended to grow the player base with how they created new servers at launch. Such a drop off is definitely common, but for some reason I guess BioWare didn't think it could happen to them, or else there wouldn't be so many ghost town servers. I know I've been playing at the same time of day for a while now and I have seen a huge progressive drop in players on the fleets month by month.
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