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Scritchy
09.15.2012 , 02:38 PM | #61
Quote: Originally Posted by Jak-Jak View Post
If a poor economy means people will pay less for forms of entertainment, does that mean they just play board games and do jig-saw puzzles? Personally, I find the cheapest thing I can do when I'm saving money is staying in and playing video games.
It wasn't just that, but the study also addressed MMORPGs giving people facing the dreary reality of unsuccessful job hunting a place to go and escape that reality, if only for a little while. The study was pretty in depth, and I was impressed with it.

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09.15.2012 , 02:52 PM | #62
Quote: Originally Posted by Scritchy View Post
It wasn't just that, but the study also addressed MMORPGs giving people facing the dreary reality of unsuccessful job hunting a place to go and escape that reality, if only for a little while. The study was pretty in depth, and I was impressed with it.
If you could find that, I'd love to take a look at it.

That makes alot of sense to me. An immersive MMO is a much greater escape than other forms of media IMO.
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09.15.2012 , 07:29 PM | #63
Quote: Originally Posted by Tiek View Post
so you didnt notice that Juyo is padlocked, greyed out, and listed as population locked on the server selection screen? i mean honestly, thats pretty hard to miss.
He did not notice it, because if you have at least one character on an origin server, it does not appear padlocked and it does not appear grayed out. It just looks like a LIGHT server in the server list.
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09.15.2012 , 07:32 PM | #64
Quote: Originally Posted by Jak-Jak View Post
Especially when you look at some other games player bases which are thriving right now. Claiming the economy has an influence over subscription numbers is just a mute point. If a poor economy means people will pay less for forms of entertainment, does that mean they just play board games and do jig-saw puzzles? Personally, I find the cheapest thing I can do when I'm saving money is staying in and playing video games.
such as? Every paid MMO is currently in a low point for subs ESPEICALLY WoW.

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09.15.2012 , 07:37 PM | #65
Based on Xfire numbers and we can argue now much value it has SWTOR is the second most played P2P MMO after WOW. GW2 is currently 3rd most played game on xfire but it lost already about 20% of Xfire players based on numbers. WoW has 5th place in all games, SWTOR is 19th in all games, Aion is 22nd, EVE is 26th, LOTRO is 35th, STO - 52nd, TSW - 64th, Tera - 70th, Rift - 74th, WAR - 105th. These numbers are from today.
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Skoobie
09.15.2012 , 08:57 PM | #66
Quote: Originally Posted by jarjarloves View Post
such as? Every paid MMO is currently in a low point for subs ESPEICALLY WoW.
Now, you can't get away with saying something like that without any proof.

So
a) please provide proof that every paid MMO is at a low point for subscribers

and b) that the game's that may be down are down due to the economy.

Thanks!

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HarghTalach
09.15.2012 , 09:10 PM | #67
Quote: Originally Posted by H-aTreD View Post
WoW in space is meant as Scifi WoW, not flying around is space...
Ahh gotcha, my bad. I only played WoW for a month and couldn't stand it.

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H-aTreD
09.15.2012 , 09:12 PM | #68
Quote: Originally Posted by HarghTalach View Post
Ahh gotcha, my bad. I only played WoW for a month and couldn't stand it.
That's kind of funny, in my opinion they are very much a like.

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HarghTalach
09.15.2012 , 09:17 PM | #69
Quote: Originally Posted by H-aTreD View Post
That's kind of funny, in my opinion they are very much a like.
I think it was the graphics that got me. We'd (a mate and I) been playing Eq2 for a bit and decided to give it a shot on the recommendation from another friend. Just didn't grab me. This is early 2005 I think.

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KeyboardNinja
09.15.2012 , 09:23 PM | #70
Quote: Originally Posted by AshenK View Post
35 people on Ebon Hawk last night at prime time.
As someone who was on the Ebon Hawk last night at prime time, I call BS. I counted a little over 210 on Republic fleet when I logged off. Heck, the activity in my my friends + guild list alone was enough to total beyond 35.
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