Why swtor is not succesfull

Disagree with the article. The author is taking the opinion of a very tiny minority and extrapolating that out to the entirety of the player base. Role players likefluff just as min maxers like grinding rare stat boosters. Neither, in my opinion, will grab up the lion's share of the demographic needed to maintain a video game. Success can be narrowed down to one word.

That, in a word, is content. Content, content, content. Fun content. Fun content with rewards that advance players to the next level of content. Expansions that continue providing content for players to consume. Content that includes gear, crafting, adventure, story in an easy to participate, easy to enjoy bed of lightly sprinkled fluff designed to enhance that content.

so what if it's f2p?

and even though I'm sure you pulled the 200k out of your.. behind... that is a huge number. people are just used to only ever hearing about the 10 milion subs WoW has, how SWTOR has 'failed' because it didn't reach the 2 milion right away and all that... but these numbers are far from standart. that's like saying a band like 'parkway drive' isn't successful because they 'only' play infront of 2000 people - and not 50,000 like all the generic pop stars or the 'big names'
and yet the band members of parkway drive can afford living 'well-off' and make fun of their fans for buying their way-too-expensive-and-totally-ridiculous merch.

Keep in mind, D3 was released after that post, so it would not be inc. And maybe in some countries to play WoW, you donot need a battlenet tag. Such as in China.

Lotro's design keeps a interested player interested for a very long course of time.

Swtor's design keeps a interested player interested for a very short time, once they lose the desire to "re-roll," and have nothing but flashpoints/ops and warzones to do at endgame.

Goldshire wasn't anything special by design, it became what it is from the community. Any place has that potential, and TOR has some way better settings for such activity. People forget that it takes some player initiative to create some of this fluff, and things like that don't ship at release or come overnight or in a patch.

Exactly. Even in Rift I can look at a mountian range and usually find a way to climb to the top of it and over. I have a screen shot in it, with my char at the top of a mountian ridge, looking out across a spawling valley. WoW has several places like that you can do too. The worlds in LOTRO, Rift and WoW feel open. And even a lot of the WoW haters have admited WoW's combat animation and smooth mechanics are some of the best.

TOR has some nice features, namely the customizing UI is one of the best I have experenced. And of course the story line for each class is excellent, as is the companion system. But until they put some other stuff into the game to make it feel more alive, it will continue to lag behind other MMO's in some important elements.

the 200k is pretty realistic actually. Your number of 10M for wow though is way off. WOW is under 8M subs now and dropping more subs than swtor per month still.

That's funny people use the the numbers argument to say wow is better than swtor.

Where do you get those numbers from? Based on your own personal dislike for the game and your small community of friends who also hate it? We will not know for sure what any MMO subs are until they release the last quarterly sub figures and Blizzard has not done that yet.

I wonder how many of those "8 million" are from north america/europe...