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EA shareholders meeting: over/under 300k subs?

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EA shareholders meeting: over/under 300k subs?

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cipero
07.27.2012 , 05:39 PM | #341
Someone's mad.
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ZudetGambeous
07.27.2012 , 05:43 PM | #342
Quote: Originally Posted by Roalmo View Post
This is what wow does with its Asian accounts, so why not?
Sorry I didn't mean to get involved in any of this WoW talk.

In previous Investor Meetings EA said they count "active subs" as people paying a monthly sub, AND people who are in their 30 day trial period who have NOT yet paid any sub fee. However they did have to buy the box.

During the last conference call they did free trial weekends, and they said that "active accounts" included people paying a sub, people in their 30 day trial period, AND people in the Free trial weekends.

Now however there is a free trial ALL the time, will anyone who signs up for TOR ever be counted as an "active account"

If someone who owns stock in EA could call in and have them specify during the call that would be great. (Yes, anyone who owns stock is allowed to call in and ask a question during the meetings, granted they only answer some questions, but can't hurt to ask)
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Durasturan
07.27.2012 , 05:45 PM | #343
Quote: Originally Posted by cipero View Post
Alright? So the Asian market doesn't pay as much. They still pay, tho. Am I right? Therefore they are still counted as a source of income. Blizzard may state all of that, but there has to be a reason right? If it's pure loss in revenue they wouldn't be operating in that market anymore.

Saying that something is more likely to do something than something else is just conjecture. I can give you a web address for a Canadian ran gold farming site. Do you want it? I bet you weren't thinking Canadians are more likely to do anything.

Saying something is more likely doesn't prove anything and it also doesn't speak for that entire population. I can point you in the direction of a Korean guild that got world-first heroic spine, but they were probably just taking a break from their gold farming operations right?
it's not conjecture when BLIZZARD ADMITS IT'S HAPPENING. See this is why you're so "exhausted" because you refuse to participate in a civil, adult conversation. Just because you say something does it make it true. I've actually made your job easy for you by POSTING facts to back up my position like three different times, giving several different links and citing evidence. You just don't even bother.

Asian subs COST more money for Blizzard while bringing in less money, they are WORSE than EU/NA subs for the parent company.

Asian subs are MORE LIKELY to be bots/gold farmers/gold sellers which unbalance the economy and take up both system and in game resources, making them worse for players.

The point is that to say SWTOR shouldn't be able to count Trial Accounts (IF THEY EVEN WERE, WHICH THEY ARE NOT) but that WoW can count Asian subs is both absurd and hypocritical.

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Durasturan
07.27.2012 , 05:47 PM | #344
Quote: Originally Posted by cipero View Post
Someone's mad.
And someone has no idea what logic, facts, or proof even mean. You're clearly a troll and I find it absolutely hysterical that you think you're right. It's probably the funniest thing I've seen all day actually lol.

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Arlbo_Nabbins
07.27.2012 , 07:46 PM | #345
Quote: Originally Posted by Emeda View Post
Your right we have to believe them no matter what number they give. Even though they closed almost 200 servers and they still have less heavy servers than they did back when they said they had 1.3.
Still in denial I see, so desperate to claim failure that you will lie about the servers.

When they announced 1.3 million there were not 20+ Servers hitting Heavy/Very Heavy on a daily basis. You can look at Torstatus with the long term graphs for heavy population servers and see that your claim is a lie.

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metalgearyoda
07.27.2012 , 07:49 PM | #346
Quote: Originally Posted by DarksideWK View Post
I'm going to put my guess in for the sub base. I'm going to guess they report a 450k "player base" which we can understand as 150k trial accounts and 300k subs. Over or under?

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I really like how it wasn't mentioned at all.
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Arlbo_Nabbins
07.27.2012 , 07:52 PM | #347
Quote: Originally Posted by belizar View Post
tru there is alot low servers but 30+ highs and who knows im not counting lol mediums

swtor basicly got 11 servers and cant fill them
There are more than destination 11 servers, no matter how many times this is stated some people do seem incapable of noticing that there are servers in the US, EU and Asia Pacific.

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HaruHaraHaru
07.27.2012 , 07:57 PM | #348
Quote: Originally Posted by Valkirus View Post
You cannot post on the TOR forums unless you have a active subscription. So the trolls you are trying to refer to did like the game enough to sub at one time. They post in hopes the game will get better and it will not for them unless BioWare pays attention to thier concerns. Just because a poster happens to disagree with your shining approval of TOR, does not mean they are trolling.
my point was that said troll was complaining about characters not having titles when there are character titles in the game. that's kinda what made him a troll.

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PlacidDragon
07.27.2012 , 07:59 PM | #349
The 6 month sub still hasnt run out for people (i still have 25'ish days left).

So the number (if they gave one) is uninteresting

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metalgearyoda
07.27.2012 , 08:00 PM | #350
Quote: Originally Posted by PlacidDragon View Post
The 6 month sub still hasnt run out for people (i still have 25'ish days left).

So the number (if they gave one) is uninteresting
They won't give a number till the end of this month. And even then, they might not. Swtor is a small part of EAs portfolio.
Ganking leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to pvp.
The Swtor forum attracts trolls because the forums are more fun than raiding dragon soul.
Complaining is the new meta game.