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zagon

05.07.2012 , 04:52 PM \| #551
Quote: Originally Posted by Xarielle An active subscription is any user with game time tied to his or her account regardless of if they has cancelled the recurring fee or not. The problem with this report is that shortly before the end of April they gave a large portion of the player base 1 additional month. This throws the numbers completely off balance and makes it impossible to use active subscriptions as a gauge of active players. This needs to be put in bold for everyone who thinks "25% isn't that bad of a loss"

JeramieCrowe

05.07.2012 , 04:54 PM \| #552
Quote: Originally Posted by Maxil The investor conference call was just loltastic. EA took a hard hit, and they are obviously downplaying TOR. They are shifting priority into microtransactions and future titles. Some cliffnotes: Facebook is one of our most important partners FIFA and Battlefield top EA products overall EA's wanting to push microtransactions to ALL their titles, with interest in making many of them free to play supported by those microtransactions. "E3 will be an eye opener" "TOR casual audiance has unsubscribed" TOR profits were in the top 10 for EA but not in the top 5. TOR not as important as upcoming simcity title High demand from TOR players to put in achievements (???) It goes on a bit but most of those stood out in large detail to me. Interesting to see what comes If they seem to be "downplaying" it, it's because they have nothing to worry about when it comes to TOR. You say EA is all about numbers, right? Then look at the damned numbers! TOR subs are well above the projected and typical MMO dropoff curve. This is a good thing. The very fact that it's 1.3 million and not 600k is indicative of a huge success for the first 6 months of an MMO. What IS important, however, is what they do from here, and that's up to BioWare's upper echelon, not EA's. That is, it is now up to BioWare to do the non-typical upward curve, or allow TOR to "coast". That remains to be seen.
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Evensong

05.07.2012 , 04:55 PM \| #553
Considering that worldwide economy sucks and all the trolling and hate the game got from launch I think 1.3 million is good news. People will get quickly bored and disappointed in GW2 and TSW and will be back here in the fall... that is my prediction. More then 2 millions subs at the end of the year....
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Reaperchris

05.07.2012 , 04:55 PM \| #554
Quote: Originally Posted by jgelling Wow, despite a free month, free pets and allegedly-major 1.2 patch along with worldwide roll-out, subscriptions declined from 1.7 million to 1.3 million including all the free subs. I think the analysts are being amazingly optimistic at that rate suggesting things will stabilize at 1 million with that kind of hemorrhaging so quickly. what don't trolls seem to get about this? The free month was given AFTER March 31st which was the cut off date. Keep buying SWTOR accounts and paying monthly to Troll though... because you are still helping SWTOR make money.
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Oddzball

05.07.2012 , 04:55 PM \| #555
Wait, if they use the term "active subs" versus paying subs. Cant investors in EA demand to know the total PAYING subs the game has?

rduhon

05.07.2012 , 04:55 PM \| #556
Quote: Originally Posted by zagon This needs to be put in bold for everyone who thinks "25% isn't that bad of a loss" But weren't the only people given this free month people who already had a subscription?
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Angedechu

05.07.2012 , 04:56 PM \| #557
Quote: Originally Posted by Evensong Considering that worldwide economy sucjs and all the trolling and hate the game got from launch I think 1.3 million is good news. People will get quickly bored and disappointed in GW2 and TSW and will be back here in the fall... that is my prediction. More then 2 millions subs at the end of the year.... They wont come back to TOR. They will go create the same healty atmosphre in GW2, TERA, and TSW, and rage leave. They will probably hype Elders Scrolls Online too.

JeramieCrowe

05.07.2012 , 04:57 PM \| #558
Quote: Originally Posted by Irilith Rift had 2 million subs? A no name IP by a no name developer had 300k subs more than SW:Tor? Sales. Down to 500k subs (less now, actually).
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Lord_Ravenhurst

05.07.2012 , 04:57 PM \| #559
Quote: Originally Posted by Angedechu One thing I sure hope Bioware copy on Blizzard is to cut forum acces to previous subbers. How often was that explained here, countless times, but specially for you: Active gametime = active forum, when you unsubbed you still have access for your remaining gametime, is it that hard to understand...

amantheil

05.07.2012 , 04:57 PM \| #560
Quote: Originally Posted by zagon This needs to be put in bold for everyone who thinks "25% isn't that bad of a loss" They gave ACTIVE accounts a free month. So it probably does not effect these numbers. They would have been included anyway. 25% is bad regardless.

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