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Prolapse
05.07.2012 , 03:54 PM | #341
Quote: Originally Posted by Rayla_Felana View Post
A fact in a thread filled with assumptions, what? you didn't get that?
So people posting links to articles that factually present the loss of 25% of the game's population in a period of less than four months is an assumption?
The Teurelious Legacy
Way too many names to type here..

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Rayla_Felana
05.07.2012 , 03:54 PM | #342
Quote: Originally Posted by LawAssassin View Post
1.3 Subs . . . but how many of those subs are active players?

Could be that 300k of those, or more are people who bought 6 month subs and are no longer playing . . .


I'm sure Bioware knows the actual numbers, and for obvious reasons are not releasing those. Are server mergers that big of a blow to the ego that they'll just refuse to do them? Do they really think that 1.3-1.4 will bring back hundreds of thousands of players, and bring in a couple hundred thousand new subs on top of that?

Someone at EA needs to suck it up and make the right call. Swallow your pride, merge the servers, and focus on growing the game back that way. Stop trying to do these bandaid fixes to try and ebb the loss of subs.

Lost subs are lost subs. And when June/July hit, they're gonna lose another huge batch as the 6 month subs/ +1 free month run dry.
You know if I counted every person that said they are here because they bought a 6 month sub, I'd still only have an extremely small fraction of 1.3 mil.

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Pvpingwithnoobs
05.07.2012 , 03:54 PM | #343
Quote: Originally Posted by Rayla_Felana View Post
On one of the other hundreds of servers maybe?
You mean on one of those 100's of servers that have people crying out for a server merge because there is a lot less playing?

Ok thanks, understand your logic now lol!

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Neloth
05.07.2012 , 03:54 PM | #344
Now is a good time to post this:

"At half a million subscribers, the game is substantially profitable, but it's not the kind of thing we would write home about," EA CEO John Riccitiello said in a Gamasutra-attended conference call accompanying EA's third quarter fiscal earnings report today. "Anything north of a million subscribers, it's a very profitable business."

So yeah
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~Bill Cosby

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Tiaa
05.07.2012 , 03:54 PM | #345
Quote: Originally Posted by Prolapse View Post
So people posting links to articles that factually present the loss of 25% of the game's population in a period of less than four months is an assumption?
To them it's all a dream.

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Rayla_Felana
05.07.2012 , 03:54 PM | #346
Quote: Originally Posted by Prolapse View Post
So people posting links to articles that factually present the loss of 25% of the game's population in a period of less than four months is an assumption?
You assume I mean those exact people hmm?

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VanorDM
05.07.2012 , 03:54 PM | #347
Quote: Originally Posted by Dezzi View Post
Consider it this way: SWTOR just lost almost as many subscribers as FFXI had at its peak.
No they lost less players then FFXI had period. And still have over 2 times more players then that game did at it's peak.

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Lt_Latency
05.07.2012 , 03:55 PM | #348
Not bad, But GW2, D3 and LOLPanada are not out yet.

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BCBull
05.07.2012 , 03:55 PM | #349
4,500 people are leaving this game every day

185 people hour are leaving this game.
Quote: Originally Posted by Greg Zoeller
Fixing requires technology that we currently do not have.

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Galbatorrix
05.07.2012 , 03:55 PM | #350
Quote: Originally Posted by arcdaemon View Post
Servers are dead you can't even play on high po p servers hardly the game is bleeding subs and you think it's alright.

I play just fine on high pop servers every night. I never have any issues finding a group. Maybe I should tell all of those people that they shouldn't be playing/grouping with me? Maybe they didn't get your memo?