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

And you really can't see certain people taking any chance, no matter how far fetched or half-a**ed to whine, complain and basically talk trash about this game and BW?

Would it matter? It'll be an obvious troll post and no one has to reply with it, and bioware also wouldn't have to deal with it since it's not on their forums win/win! As the saying goes, just don't feed the trolls

So it would be a forum about the game, the closest thing there would be to an official forum since there wouldn't actually be an official one, and it wouldn't be moderated by the developers of the game... Yeah, I can't see that turning into a cesspool of troll threads and posts.

They would jost go moan over on the other forums http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/index

Going to predict a minor gain. I'd say maybe 2 million by the end of the year, unless a few dramatic changes occur that make SW:ToR the clear choice in MMOs. That would require a few changes to how the PvP system works, and some balancing in the PvE department. As well as a class balancing pass, and maybe a change to PvE content to make it just as hard for ranged as it is for melee.

The question I have is how many of those 1.7 million subscribers are people who had intended to cancel, but forgot or were caught up in the bug that wouldn't let them unsubscribe?

Given those two scenarios (both of which have been discussed on these forums), it's hard to have any faith that the numbers they've released are realistic.

I think it'll take a couple of months for things to level out before any truly substantially relevant figures show up.

at lease 1.6 million , what do you think dose that sound about right?

Ok, the two points you chose to argue are beyond terrible and your grasping for straws. The key numbers we should be looking at is the average retention rates after a few months from other big ticket MMORPG's. I think it's somewhere around 40-45%, so this game will most likely hold anywhere between 900k-1.1 million in the next few months.

Unfortunately the community is not sold on this game yet, it has a loyal fan base it's very optomistic to say all 1.7 million are satisfied customers. My personal fun guesses are a loyal base of 500k who will play the game no matter what, another 700k who will play depending on upcoming changes and the rest are out.

500k total, game will be dead February 2013.

wow

lotto # plz ?