Roughly how many people play the game now?

I think it's somewhere between 300-500K people.

All we can do when it comes to SUBSCRIBER numbers is either 1) believe Bioware or 2) pull numbers out of our rear ends because we don't know.

I have estimated the NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO LOGIN as about 60,000, on average, as a 24 hour average over the last two weeks, based on publicly available server status updates. (LINK HERE.)

It's only logical and reasonable to assume that not every subscriber is logged in at the same time. For instance, I can tell you (with some degree of accuracy) that server X has 1,000 people, on average, logged in.

In reality that might mean:
500 stay at home parents log in at noon and log out at 4 pm.
1000 teenagers log in at 4 and log out at 8
2000 salarymen log in at 8 and out at 12 midnight
2000 college students log in at 12 midnight and out at 4 am
1000 bartenders log in at 4 am and log out at 8 am.
500 3rd shift EMTs log in at 8 am and log out at noon.

So while it's a 24 hour average of 1000 people logged in at once, it's 7000 subscribers.

So if we've got about 60,000 logins, if Bioware's figure of 1.3m subscribers is still current and applicable, that means that about 5% of the population is logged in at once. That seems reasonable to me but I have no actual industry data to determine if that's a "good" estimate of the login/subscriber ratio.

If you think 10% of the population is logged in all the time, then that's like 600,000 subscribers.

/shrug. It's not an answer to your question, but it's the only data I have. Subscriber info is on a firewalled accounting server at Bioware and so they are the absolutely only people in the world who have that information.

Paige

Here is a post with info for you that you are looking for
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=449144


Granted this is actual people average on at one time snapshot 62 k or so world wide . Pretty low numbers ,once the server transfers settle down the new calculation will be done i am sure ...

This picture is very much related. Always makes me LOL hard.

I really cant understand why so many people are unsubscribing... I mean this is a GREAT game, why are people leaving? There are many things that we are missing i know that, but that dont make this game bad? I enjoy the hell out of it, i can only play in weekends and i always look forward to getting home to play it. I really dont want so many people to leave, i really dont want this game to go under There are no other mmorpg out there that appeals to me, im tired of middle aged magic games, and i couldnt stand wow it was way to boring. Although i will be playing gw2 i also want to keep on playing swtor, so please dont judge this game so quickly, dont leave just because there is 1 or 2 things you hate...

Well it had close to a 25% decline within the first two months of this year, on the sixth month, so 75% decline assuming the drop is steady leaving around 400k subscriptions.

3 hippies, 2 nerds and one guy who lives in his moms basement... im one of the hippies btw.. =)

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The more hate you find on the forums the more people like the game.

Dont worry, if the devs keep up the good work (and maybe get a little faster) this game will turn around. The game is heading in the right direction and that is what is important, as long as EA is patient and doesnt screw with it i think it has a really good chance to come back.

Until someone convinces everyone to log in at the same time on there main, stand totaly still in the fleet and let a head count be done we will never know unless bioware give us the numbers.