From a Goldman Analyst Perspective on SWTOR

Great, well informed and knowledgeable post. I concur with every thing you stated.

I do have a question for you: what are your professional insights for the game Guild Wars 2? I ask, because after not being able to play for the last week due to all the lag, errors, crashes etc..I am already looking for a new game to take the place of this one ( I know it will still be awhile before released, but I am tired of paying for games only to be used as a tester for a game that isn't ready for release yet released ).

I have played MMO"s for twenty years starting with Mud's (Gem) and I am looking for something that won't make me want to pull my hair out and kick my monitor due to the game having un-addressed issues and poor customer service. It is unacceptable to have customers who haven't been able to play the game in weeks and not put out a patch to fix that issue by now, yet put out a patch to apply fixes so you can wave from your mount.

I look forward to a response from you since it appears you have an inkling of what is going on in the gaming market or in this game NOT going on.

OP, you're a 100% right.


That being said, Goldman Sachs can go (expletive) itself.

Arrogant nonsense - he provided no references and expected everyone to take him at his word. He can say whatever he wants about any company and we all swallow it? Never.

Until he can provide a list of references and clean up his writing style to a professional standard his opinion is just that. I'm tempted to forward his little "Professional Analyst" post over to Goldman Sachs and see if I hear anything back. I know the response already though - "Thanks for your email, we cannot verify the post's origin and this company does not endorse the author. The opinions presented are his/her own and not the opinions of this company." with perhaps a "Please consider the environment before printing this email" and a list of legalese about distributing said email.

I live in the real world of balance sheets, profit and loss and management accounting. I currently design and develop accounting software for the furniture industry, marketing/consumer relations isn't my strong point - but while marketing/consumer relations may affect sales it's the cold hard figures that matter. I suggest we wait until we see the half-yearly report from EA (unless they don't do that in America) - we'll then have some weight behind our arguments that don't depend on the unprofessional, unresearched opinions of a forum user who didn't even give his name.

This company will not fail if they have 500K subscribers, and will turn a profit for the company. I.E. It will provide an acceptable return on investment, making it worth continuing to invest in The Old Republic.

Great, well informed and knowledgeable post. I concur with every thing you stated.

I do have a question for you: what are your professional insights for the game Guild Wars 2? I ask, because after not being able to play for the last week due to all the lag, errors, crashes etc..I am already looking for a new game to take the place of this one ( I know it will still be awhile before released, but I am tired of paying for games only to be used as a tester for a game that isn't ready for release yet released ).

I have played MMO"s for twenty years starting with Mud's (Gem) and I am looking for something that won't make me want to pull my hair out and kick my monitor due to the game having un-addressed issues and poor customer service. It is unacceptable to have customers who haven't been able to play the game in weeks and not put out a patch to fix that issue by now, yet put out a patch to apply fixes so you can wave from your mount.

I look forward to a response from you since it appears you have an inkling of what is going on in the gaming market or in this game NOT going on.

Love your sig. I notice you used a z instead of an s. Is that a girl gamer thing???????

I cited CapIQ

I said they will make a profit but if subs fall they will need to cut in other areas to make a profit and gave the reasons.

The rest I clearly stated (I think, in my opinion, ect)