EA shareholders meeting: over/under 300k subs?

How are they gonna treat lvl 15 accounts as since there is no time limit..(shouldn't be considered a sub)
gonna have see how they word the the number of subs/users..

any who.. 900k subs (including lvl 15's who subbed)

after one month of GW2 is live..
600k

Yep, a FREE to play game will result in a reduction of subscribers, not to mention that atleast SWTOR actually has raid content, will be getting more, the GW2 world is smaller, and has about 1/3 of the content SWTOR had at launch.

Note: I do not hate GW2, it looks rather good, and i intend to play it alongside SWTOR, why not? One is free.

Good. I'm glad you will be playing both. Tho it isn't free. You buy it and it doesn't have a sub. But that's great if you want to keep your Swtor sub. 2 mmo's one sub and a box price. Win/Win

Yep, a FREE to play game will result in a reduction of subscribers, not to mention that atleast SWTOR actually has raid content, will be getting more, the GW2 world is smaller, and has about 1/3 of the content SWTOR had at launch.

Note: I do not hate GW2, it looks rather good, and i intend to play it alongside SWTOR, why not? One is free.

Ah yes, its technically buy to play, but no matter.

Atleast they haven't gone stupidly-over-the-top with microtransactions in GW2 it seems. It all seems fairly reasonable. Even the mystic chest stuff looks reasonable considering you can get the items in them from daily rewards. This is coming from a venomous hard-core opponent of the Microtransaction model.

From March to May they lost 400,000 subscribers. If we assume it continues that trajectory than I'd say it's more like 500k-700k. I'm guessing 650k.

Just to add... I don't think SW should or would go into in-game stores. They aren't built for it, or designed rather. It would take a completely new approach.

I am going to book mark this thread and recheck it sometime in the fall when EA's real numbers will show up in the finacials that Ea cant hide anymore or fudge or inflate or use data outdated to show as current to their shareholders. Hrmmm maybe the first part of next year to get the correct numbers. Either way after the 6 th month subs are completely out of the system the real numbers wont show up on paper until somewhere around that time.

So we can see who won the sub numbers war then.

Giggity giggity giggity giggity goo !

The sub loss and trend is eerily similar to AoC although not as sharp as Aoc's was.

1.2 million shipped copies 850 k bought 450 k subscribed afer 30 days 250-275 k at the 3 month mark , 6th month dropped to 150-175 k . Then 7th and 8th month 100k -120 k by the time it hit the 9 thand 10th month it went below 100k to somewhere around 70-80 k world wide at best.

All the same gripping the forums all the same "there are no sub losses" "games doing fine" " moderators deleting post " All the same speculation. Then the finacials came out months later proving the down hill trend and most speculations were correct.

Best part was going back and seeing many months later in the same forums all the fanbois and game defenders were now the ones in the forums gripping about all the things that were wrong with the game that everyone else had already stated many months prior. Way to after the fact.

Personally I wanted this game to succeed but that reality is looking grimm