Subs down 25%

Well, the pressure is on the developers. There is still hope. And we don't have to wait until 1.3.

A LFG tool will NOT provide incentive to do HM FP dailies. There is an easier, quick change they can make--a change that will give all the idle level 50s something to do.

Up the ante for doing HM flashpoints. This would add huge incentive to do flashpoints. The HM daily quest reward should be scaled to the difficulty of the heroic completed, and should include Rakata and Black Hole tokens as appropriate:

The Black Talon: Keep as-is, "LFG quick daily BT HM" in General Chat makes my stomach turn
Boarding Party: Add 1 Rakata token
The Foundry, Directive 7: Add 2 Rakata token
The Battle of Ilum, The False Emperor, Kaon under Siege: Add 1 Black Hole token
Lost Island: Add 2 Black Hole token

If people sign on every day to do the daily, it will help the economy as well.

I don't know....

Khem Val emails me every couple weeks asking me to please come back and play with him....

I guess perhaps I should seeing as Bio has been paying my sub for me for awhile now. LOL

Really the numbers where held up by some well timed Free month tokens for people that where not playing enough... better that then having to report that many more unsubs a few weeks before quarter end. It will be interesting to see what they do to keep subs the month before the next quarterly report.

Hmmm... 3 months for the price of one sale ?
... More Free months for anyone with a level 15+ legacy ?
... $10 off monthly Sub E-Coupons for everyone ?

I guess we'll see how they can rig the numbers next quarter.

Link or it didn't happen. You realize that Bioware didn't give free months to inactive accounts, right? So, unless those players all cancelled after receiving their free month, then you're absolutely, positively wrong in your assumption.

If you do basic math 25% equals leaving so when they leave 25% more players come.

Divide by everything is fine and nothing is wrong. You get 25% more players so I predict by the end of...

August the game will have a 350% player increase.

400000 is a lot of people but you know what 1300000 is a lot more people. What this means is that 3/4 people are not unhappy enough to leave swtor yet. Who knows what fraction of the 400000 will come back with the release of new meaningful content. What percentage canceled for financial reasons, the econemy is not great right now. There are too many unknowables to make meaningful conclusions.

This is the only industry I know of where a 76% approval rating is a bad thing. BW is set to make Millions of dollars off SWTOR every year until they really screw it up. 1.2 was badly handled but that is one update, how many other MMO's had a bad update dropped subs, then turned it around with a good update. Look at LOTRO they bombed that game with a bad expansion (MOM), they bombed it further with a 2nd bad expansion (SOM), then they turned it around with a very good expansion.

Bioware... bad expansions(updates) ignore the player.... good updates give the player (customer) what they want.

A. You mean except that it's illegal for a publicly traded company to lie in the forum they used to communicate those numbers, right?

It says 1.2 Mil subs but keep in mind that free month everyone received. There are a ton of subs that are not counted as being dropped due to that free month because they are still coded as active. Sub loss is actually closer to 50% but the free month lets them make the shareholders feel better.