NOW = 1.7 Million Active Subscribers | 3 Months from now = Guess What

I'm very sceptical of the sub number. It's for a very simple reason. This figure was told a mere ten days after the end of a free trial.

I dunno about American companies, but Canadian companies making fiscal reports prepare their data and presentation for way more than 10 days.

At least in Canadian fiscal linguo ''today'' or ''currently'' don't mean ''as I speak right now''. I strongly doubt that the EA head guy called Bob the Guy That Count Subs'' at 9:AM the day of the fsical report and asked him ''How many subs there is'' ?

I'm writing this in front of a bookshelves filled with SW books, and gracefully ornementated with a small and somewhat tastefull Slave Princess Leia figurine.
Behind me is a CD shelve with a boxed copy of every Bioware game since their creation till 2006 (post 2006 are on my STEAM).

I play WoW since 2006, on a server that was not very populated in 2006. And yet I did not even had to reroll or transfer : I always found people to do dungeons and raids. I had to delete my Sith Warrior because of ghost town 2 weeks after TOR release. It's not a good sign.

blah blah, i think the game stinks.

Everything I've seen in the game is something you would see in an MMO a decade ago

I'm very sceptical of the sub number. It's for a very simple reason. This figure was told a mere ten days after the end of a free trial.

I dunno about American companies, but Canadian companies making fiscal reports prepare their data and presentation for way more than 10 days.

At least in Canadian fiscal linguo ''today'' or ''currently'' don't mean ''as I speak right now''. I strongly doubt that the EA head guy called Bob the Guy That Count Subs'' at 9:AM the day of the fsical report and asked him ''How many subs there is'' ?

I'm writing this in front of a bookshelves filled with SW books, and gracefully ornementated with a small and somewhat tastefull Slave Princess Leia figurine.
Behind me is a CD shelve with a boxed copy of every Bioware game since their creation till 2006 (post 2006 are on my STEAM).

I play WoW since 2006, on a server that was not very populated in 2006. And yet I did not even had to reroll or transfer : I always found people to do dungeons and raids. I had to delete my Sith Warrior because of ghost town 2 weeks after TOR release. It's not a good sign.

That sounds possible. If anything I just hope it continues to grow! I've got all my friends to play so far, and they all love it.

Fiscal reports take a while to prepare. Getting sub numbers is probably a lot easier. I'd be willing to bet that upper management is getting a report on subs DAILY this early on for a project this big.

dont realy care about the numbers outside that the game gains enough cash to keep content flowing rather would have less players but more mature social ones and not the wow new mmorpg players

The Old Republic CAN NEVER offer a free 7 day trial period.
In all honesty, this is a single player game. In 7 days, you can pretty much beat a storyline for a quest.

This game is going to be going Free To Play when Diablo 3 and Guild Wars cannibalize the market.

The utter lack of a decent endgame experience doesn't help customer retention either - people run out of things to do.

The Old Republic CAN NEVER offer a free 7 day trial period.
In all honesty, this is a single player game. In 7 days, you can pretty much beat a storyline for a quest.

This game is going to be going Free To Play when Diablo 3 and Guild Wars cannibalize the market.

The utter lack of a decent endgame experience doesn't help customer retention either - people run out of things to do.