SWTOR and the EA stock plummet

I came back a couple days ago after not playing for 2 months. And I'm not the only one. Your argument is invalid.

The people who are saying stupid things like "I don't care I'm just having fun playing the game!"
Well guess what? There are only three options for this game now, and two of them is SWTOR going under.
A) The game goes F2P
B) EA goes under and the game gets closed down
C) the game gets shut off

Must be a sad little world that you live in, looking negatively at everything like that.

EA stated on record they were aiming to take out WoW in sub numbers before the launch of the game. This could lead to people buying up shares of EA. When it was clear that SWTOR wasn't getting anywhere close to WoW sub numbers, and looking like it won't even keep any where near 1 million subs, people who bought stocks based on EA statements would start to dump them. I could see how 1 game not doing anywhere near as expected could have stock prices go down fast.

Even if EA goes under (unlikely) Bioware will just be bought out by some other company (probably Perfect World International and SWtoR will still exist under the new company. Much like what happened to Cryptic and Champions Online / Star Trek Online.

They should have stuck with Xbox games MMOs are too big and expensive plus, Star Wars has such a diverse fan base it is impossible to please everyone; therefore it was bound to fail

People are starting to ask themselves whether or not it is worth eighty bucks for a six month for a subscription to run around an artificial world chatting with 14 year-olds (NO Offense to 14 year olds) and shooting NPCs; what sold this franchise was a story concept with the illusion of freedom and the illusion of having an effect on the outcome.

this is an MMO there can never be an outcome it doesn't end.

it has a badly composed episodic story structure with no dramatic arch or climax-because to have that you have to have an ending.

The art work is brilliant, but it is basically the same story and game over and over again.

Personally I don't understand why people didn't see this coming.

The law of diminishing marginal utility states, the first unit of consumption of a good or service yields more utility than the second and subsequent units. The rule states that a good or service should be consumed at a quantity at which the marginal utility is equal to the marginal cost

I other words consumers are getting more and more bored with this game ever time they play it. Unless the magic internet fairy craps out billions of more $ to rewrite and create new story/game lines the game has to be doomed.

And you can trust my analysis I got my Degree in Economics

Now if you will excuse me I have to fry up these burgers for the lunch crowd.

You want to see EA go down? Are you jealous of their success or something?

Let me say this with clarity:
I want The Old Republic to go Free to Play.

Is that the player or the investor in you saying that?

Just the water army making their rounds again. Nothing to see here. Move along . . .

Man I HOPE I am wrong about the game burning-and I hope EA sports pulls through.

I like Star Wars, but the only way to save the game is to get new members to sign on and it looks like the Star Wars Fans are tapped out. Most of us bailed after the first three months.

I don't know what it costs to support this game-but I am assuming at some point the costs of maintaining it will exceed the income it provides and the remaining stock Holders wont be happy about this.

EA is not General Electric or GM or Microsoft they can fail stock holders know this and will run for cover. I really hope they don't fail though, because I loved almost all their products.