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How many subscriptions SWTOR still have?

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How many subscriptions SWTOR still have?

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atduncan
12.20.2012 , 02:59 PM | #31
FACTS WE KNOW:

The game launched with 2 million subs

Articles indicated there were MASSIVE drops off within the first few months

Last official numbers we got indicated little more than 500k

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Connll
12.20.2012 , 03:24 PM | #32
Quote: Originally Posted by Arkerus View Post
Validating your opinion based on popularity. Typical.
Asking questions and not being sure= validating opinion based on popularity. Why yes, How I could not notice that before!

Here, have a cookie.
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Trevalon
12.20.2012 , 04:27 PM | #33
Don;t worry the next EA Quarterly call will be coming up soon and well all find out that this game has dropped well below the 500k sub mark.

Judging by amount of servers and amount of people online at peak times, this game probably has around the same amount of subs as EQ1/EQ2/LOTRO/FFXI - Which is around 250-450k...

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CosmicKat
12.20.2012 , 04:33 PM | #34
Sub numbers released by the companies involved are completely meaningless.

Don't have enough? Padding the numbers is as simple as generating thousands of comp accounts tied to nobody.

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Roalmo
12.20.2012 , 04:38 PM | #35
Quote: Originally Posted by Trevalon View Post
Don;t worry the next EA Quarterly call will be coming up soon and well all find out that this game has dropped well below the 500k sub mark.

Judging by amount of servers and amount of people online at peak times, this game probably has around the same amount of subs as EQ1/EQ2/LOTRO/FFXI - Which is around 250-450k...
The quarterlies will not mention sub numbers ever again.

They will mention "rising metrics" over the month before the quarterly call(forgetting to mention release of an up-date which drew more peeps in or more action in the cash shop due to new releases, sly dogs that they are).

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DaRoamer
12.20.2012 , 05:49 PM | #36
Quote: Originally Posted by atduncan View Post
FACTS WE KNOW:

The game launched with 2 million subs

Articles indicated there were MASSIVE drops off within the first few months

Last official numbers we got indicated little more than 500k
That's not what they said at all. The exact quote from Oct was:

"Although it launched well, subscriptions have been on a declining trajectory and have now slipped below one million. Last year we announced that the breakeven point was roughly 500,000 subscribers. And while we are well above that today, that’s not good enough. "

So under a million, well above 500k. That was when they announced the F2P transition.

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Vlacke
12.20.2012 , 07:32 PM | #37
I think the number of subscribers has increased a lot lately, i'd say somewhere around 750k, and rising.
Once new content rolls out things will get even better.
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XeniteKT
12.20.2012 , 07:35 PM | #38
Best source of information like this is investor calls. This kinda of information is typically available, as well as money being brought in from cartel market etc.

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Katsuragisama
12.20.2012 , 07:44 PM | #39
We probably wont know anything concrete until the end of next month, which should be time for the next EA investors call.
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Connll
12.20.2012 , 07:55 PM | #40
So, if SWTOR never got below 500k subs, the point they originally set their measuring stick, why the hell did EA did such a mess with the SWTOR team? Layoffs, restrictions in the budget, etc?

If the game was, although not the new king of MMOs, a financial success, why take those measures that so strongly resemble "milk-the-cash-cow-dry-and-run"?

Anyone has any idea?
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