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

That, won't ever happen. I'm sorry.

What I don't get is why everyone is so obsessed about having another MMO beat WoW (as if).

As far as I know, MMO games are NOT Highlander.. There cannot be only one.

That's precisely what's so hilarious about these kinds of discussions. It's utterly absurd - sort of as if MMOs were racehorses or something.

What's totally stumped all the hataz is that they've been thinking in terms of BW capturing some of a limited market that Blizz has already got the biggest chunk of.

But that's not how Blizz thought relative to its own times (with EQ the monster game), and that's not (I'll wager) how BW are thinking either.

The market for MMOs still has tons of headroom - it's just the market for certain kinds of MMO gameplay that's hit its ceiling.

BW are changing the game a bit - as indeed are Arenanet. SWTOR will attract its own, less "hardcore" audience, who love story and immersion, and that will be a hook that helps them "get" the MMO thing (i.e. the fun of playing with others in a virtual world).

There's still room for tons of variety in the market. Videogames are growing, virtual worlds are growing. We're nowhere NEAR market saturation yet. Compare and contrast mobile phones: we're at the equivalent stage where most people have heard of mobile phones and seen them mentioned in the media and used by cool people in films, but haven't all got one yet.

I agree. The game will grow as time goes on. I just don't get these doomsayers. NO MMO IS PERFECT ON LAUNCH!

Same reason as there are "console wars". Stupid people fight about stupid things, and it all turns out completely pointless. Just like them. Quite clear when you think about it isn't it?

TOR has the budget and team to make this game a success.

Those that expected end game content on par with WoW…… an MMO that’s been developing end game content for years....... can go play WoW for a couple months while TOR develops their own.

More than Rift but less than WOW. How's that for a guess

Does it really matter what the active subscriber rate is? As long as the server we play on has the proper number of people playing on it, I could care less what the active subscriber numbers are.

As long as there are enough subs to keep the game running and enough to keep the devs working on this game that is all that matters.

The hype monster strikes again. Careful, it'll devour you like it did those who set their hopes too high for this game.

Hype = Dumb

Research = Pro.

Get out your umbrella, Chicken Little. The sky, it is a fallin!