EA shareholders meeting: over/under 300k subs?

Naw, not a bug. This has to do with timed permissions. Depending on what you do u could get a few extra days until the permissions refresh. An orange explained this once.

Bioware actually responded to this previously. I don't have the exact quote, but what it boiled down to was the forum does not make you relog everytime you visit, so it stores your credentials and access for a while. So even after your gametime expires it may be a week or two before the forums want you to relog and recheck your status, so for that time you will still be able to post.

Unless you are an analsyt with access to the numbers you (anyone) have no idea. You think you know and thats fine but the shear amount of assumptions you are making means your guess no better than most. Opinions are just opinions. You have no facts. Well see soon enough, maybe yours it the correct guess but i would not bet any money on it.

I would not bet they will say 360k subs are the present figures. But from using the TOR server status and using those % figures, etc..I think it is closer to the real sub numbers. The figures they will say will not be the most accurate ones I am sure.

I think you're using the wrong words.

I think you're right that ~360k is the number of players who are actively playing the game (log in once a week, for example).

However, I think there are a whole lot more "subscriptions", which means something entirely different from "active players". There are the 6-months that people have walked away from. There are free trials that never close but aren't being played any more.

I think they could easily say 750k or higher if the question is "active subscriptions".

They would ignore it and just claim that the number are being padded somehow.

The server populations that are evident to all do not support 1.5-2M subscribers. The evidence would be contrary to the words. If you choose to believe the words, great. Some will choose to look for the definitions and assumptions behind them.

I cannot disagree with your points. With the exception about the free trials. Surely they would not count those?
Accounts and subs are two different things.

"Active accounts" (which are what are counted) are paying accounts, any accounts with free time, and usually trial accounts too (all counted within the last billing cycle, usually a month, of the date) in most MMORPGs

I was answering a hypothetical question, learn English. You should also note that I have already made my prediction in this thread and it was not that high.

Actually the server populations that are evident support the remote possibility of those numbers (although its really unlikely). It all depends on the frequency patterns of play (because while most games run at ~10% 5% playing at peak is not impossible), the big unknown is how many people are still playing on the ~200 origin servers. If the destinations are hitting a 3k peak (higher numbers have certainly been seen) and the origins are getting a 50 peak and SWTOR is a 5% of subs at peak game then that is 1.7 million. Highly improbable but not completely impossible IMO.

But as to my answer later posts show how accurate it was:

If the numbers look good its because EA/BW are manipulating them ... its a truly pathetic tactic.