SWTOR and the EA stock plummet

ok if thats the game you want to play WoW lost over 1 million customers in 1 month. The point is still what percent of subscriptions.

ok if thats the game you want to play WoW lost over 1 million customers in 1 month. The point is still what percent of subscriptions.

I love it when internet glitches, possibly aided by the LHC finally ramping up to full bore, causes posts to come across from parallel universes. Greetings, strange visitor from a world only slightly separate from our own! Just for entertainment's sake, I thought I'd mention a few bits of helpful trivia: In our world, the year is currently 2012, the President of the United States is Barack Obama, the best movie so far this summer is The Avengers, and MMORPG developers have been constantly and continuously dumbing down gameplay, with each new Triple-A MMO being easier, more forgiving, and more focused on rapid action and constant reward than the last. I'm taking, from your post, that in YOUR world, the opposite is true, and people look back on games like EQ as simplified kiddie fare, compared to the complex, time-consuming, and unforgiving games you must be playing. I'm betting in your SWTOR, there's permadeath, it takes 30 or 40 hours just to get past level 10, and there are many quests, etc, with 48 hour spawn times, not to mention 80+ man raids. Given that, I'm sure it's hard for games in your world to attain any kind of mass market popularity (though since SWTOR exists in your world, maybe it means the people in your world prefer more challenging play -- good on ya, alternate-Earth dude!). Over here on my world (I won't demean you by calling it "Earth 1" or "Earth Prime" or anything which implies it's somehow superior to your own reality), that's just not the case.

BTW, how many episodes did Firefly last in your world? If it was more than 14, do you think you could stream some over to this world while the connection between our realities is open? If you have no idea what a 'Firefly' is, then, damn, I'm sorry -- you live in some kind of hell dimension. That must suck. Firefly was awesome.

Hopefully, this will cross-post across the vibratory barrier and you'll be able to see it.

Right now ( 6:45 pm EST )...I just checked the server status...there are 13 servers in North America that are listed as "Standard". All the rest are Light. There is only one server on the Euro list which is Heavy and 8 which are Standard. Rest are Light. I donot know how anyone can look at that and say the game is doing well now. And yeah...sence the server transfers, according to the one tracking site, the percentage of logins has increased. But they are still down over 30% what they were at the end of last month.

So what if the game goes f2p?

Being at least somewhat f2p is keeping most MMOs viable.

Think about that. How many successful MMOs out there are able to sustain themselves on the old subscription model?

Right now ( 6:45 pm EST )...I just checked the server status...there are 13 servers in North America that are listed as "Standard". All the rest are Light. There is only one server on the Euro list which is Heavy and 8 which are Standard. Rest are Light. I donot know how anyone can look at that and say the game is doing well now. And yeah...sence the server transfers, according to the one tracking site, the percentage of logins has increased. But they are still down over 30% what they were at the end of last month.

And at 6:55, ten servers in North America are listed as "Standard," three "Heavy." In Europe, ten servers are "Standard." What's your point?