My rough estimate is 2.5M Active Subscribers

What's yours?

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Um, those "subscribers" were only there for the free month, it's estimated that only a few hundred thousand people are still playing (not bad). I fear the game will lose more and more players, myself included.

 

Wrong.

 

1.7 million ACTIVE subscribers as of February 1st.

Edited February 24, 2012 by Lazirus-

Wrong.

 

1.7 million ACTIVE subscribers as of February 1st.

 

Just cant believe how many people post that WRONG info that its for the first "free" month.

 

Prediction: ......1.5 million.

 

Doesnt seem to be bleeding subscriptions as badly as other new mmo and I just (cheated) read that its gone past 2mil box sales.

I just wonder where were those 1.7 million people yesterday night? I was questing on Belsavis and there were only 6 people online. My guild is having problems finding new members and forget about finding healers and tanks. PVP open world area on Tatooine was entirely desert two days ago. In the mornings it is impossible to PVP at all, there are some players that farm Ilum at that time. Please, merge the servers.... krayiss obelisk server is dying :'(

I just wonder where were those 1.7 million people yesterday night? I was questing on Belsavis and there were only 6 people online. My guild is having problems finding new members and forget about finding healers and tanks. PVP open world area on Tatooine was entirely desert two days ago. In the mornings it is impossible to PVP at all, there are some players that farm Ilum at that time. Please, merge the servers.... krayiss obelisk server is dying :'(

 

Over 87 on Bel last night on my server.

 

My guild has had to have 4 healers/tanks reroll as DPS for operations as we had too many and we are adding more people each week.

I predict 3 Million but guess what. EA won't tell you how many subscribe so you won't know.

On 03 May 2012? More than 1.7 million. Probably just a little more, right around 2.0 million.

BioWare and LucasArts are excited to announce that Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ will officially launch in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore on March 1st, 2012

 

 

Add another 500k or more.

Edited February 24, 2012 by Kourage

Wrong.

 

1.7 million ACTIVE subscribers as of February 1st.

Activated accounts, I think you mean to say.

 

I don't personally count free-monthers as active subscribers, even if EA/BW does (and disclosed such in the same sentence they said 1.7M).

 

Anyway, just wait for the next conference call, when they don't even mention subscription numbers at all, or the following one, where they avoid mentioning the game at all.

 

Talk about rose-colored glasses.

BioWare and LucasArts are excited to announce that Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ will officially launch in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore on March 1st, 2012

 

 

Add another 500k or more.

 

Lucas are advertising swtor on the episode 1 3d film on tv and in cinemas. add god knows how many. People forget that even though nearly everyone in the gaming world knows about swtor that not alot outside it do.

Edited February 24, 2012 by Shingara

I think it will be somewhere between 0 and 7 billion.

2.3 million accounts is my prediction. Edited February 24, 2012 by zrinking

Activated accounts, I think you mean to say.

 

I don't personally count free-monthers as active subscribers, even if EA/BW does (and disclosed such in the same sentence they said 1.7M).

 

Anyway, just wait for the next conference call, when they don't even mention subscription numbers at all, or the following one, where they avoid mentioning the game at all.

 

Talk about rose-colored glasses.

 

Conjecture and assumption.

900k/1M I think.

Activated accounts, I think you mean to say.

 

I don't personally count free-monthers as active subscribers, even if EA/BW does (and disclosed such in the same sentence they said 1.7M).

 

I like citations, that way everyone can draw their own conclusions from the original statement, which was made on February 1:

 

I'll define active subscribers for you, and then give you a little color on that. We're not going to be able to talk too deeply on conversion just because it's so early in the life of the product. We are only 10 days passed our first-month anniversary.

 

But essentially, we're using the industry standard for active subscribers. It's anyone paying a subscription or playing on an active prepaid timecard and those who have registered to play and are still in their trial subscription period.

 

I can tell you that the majority of the 1.7 million are paying subscribers for us currently, which is great considering we're only, like I said, 42 days into the launch and you have a 30-day trial period. So a lot of people are voting that they want to be a part of the service and are engaged, which is great news.

 

I have emphasized what I think is the key take-away from the above.

 

Also, it is obvious from the reference to "42 days into the launch" that this is in reference to the state of the game on January 30, 2012.

Edited February 24, 2012 by Kthx

Grats on Sales but lets be honest a game that has 1.7 mil active subs should have more than 60 people MAX on Republic fleet and 25 Max on illum....notice all the servers sit on light/standard these days...

Grats on Sales but lets be honest a game that has 1.7 mil active subs should have more than 60 people MAX on Republic fleet and 25 Max on illum....notice all the servers sit on light/standard these days...

 

That can mean 1 of 2 things, everyone has left or bioware have increased the caps on the servers. Guess which one it is.

That can mean 1 of 2 things, everyone has left or bioware have increased the caps on the servers. Guess which one it is.

 

Most left

Activated accounts, I think you mean to say.

 

I don't personally count free-monthers as active subscribers, even if EA/BW does (and disclosed such in the same sentence they said 1.7M).

 

Anyway, just wait for the next conference call, when they don't even mention subscription numbers at all, or the following one, where they avoid mentioning the game at all.

 

Talk about rose-colored glasses.

 

Care to make a bet on that?

Grats on Sales but lets be honest a game that has 1.7 mil active subs should have more than 60 people MAX on Republic fleet and 25 Max on illum....notice all the servers sit on light/standard these days...

 

These are anecdotes, not a statistically valid sample. Here is what happens:

 

- Player A: OMG, there were only 60 people on Republic fleet last night.

- Player B: I don't know what you are talking about, on my server, there were 120 people on Fleet.

 

or

 

- Player A: OMG, the servers sit on light/standard all the time.

- Player B: Here is a screen shot from last night showing 23 servers on heavy and 2 on very heavy

 

Outcome: Player A ignores Player B (confirmation bias).

Edited February 24, 2012 by Kthx

Grats on Sales but lets be honest a game that has 1.7 mil active subs should have more than 60 people MAX on Republic fleet and 25 Max on illum....notice all the servers sit on light/standard these days...

 

Simply not true.

I'm gunna predict 1.9m paying subs, even though they say 1.7 I would say thats actually 1.2 paying subs. So a nice 500k increase is my prediction.

Care to make a bet on that?

 

I doubt it because the shareholders would want to know that information as it's very relevant.

That can mean 1 of 2 things, everyone has left or bioware have increased the caps on the servers. Guess which one it is.

 

Server caps have nothing to do with how many people are on Fleet or Ilum.