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1 million subs reached
Gormok
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Congrats to Bioware and team for hitting the one million mark, now the question is how many will we keep and how many more will come into the game. I won't pop the cork yet until after the free month, but so far the doom and gloomers and haters have been proven wrong with their predictions.
http://torwars.com/2011/12/23/ding-1-million-subscriptions-reached-for-swtor/
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Nice, but a bit premature. The more telling statistic will be the number of subscriptions at the 1-month mark when people start to get billed.
Huh? I thought they had a million and a half preorders?
When I want a single-player story, I'll play a single-player game. When I play an MMO, I want a massively multiplayer world.
Yeah.......that's why he said he wouldn't pop the cork until after the first mon.......
You know what? Never mind.
Excellent point, man!
thats incredibly low for what most expected, and "registered "is that with actuall game copy, or just registered in theirs post beta system ( release one ), played early access, but decided game isnt worth 40~ pounds so never actually bought it, yet i was actually playing player for couple days
in any case, even if its 1mln game copies.. i find it low, and future is grim for swtor, there is no way they will produce new content at any good rate, considering how long swtor was developed and how little actuall content it have..
You were saying? http://www.swtor.com/blog/sneak-peek-james-ohlen
and ill repeat my self, 3 new bosses, + one flaspoint, and if i compare to current flashpoints, it will be barely fun for first run and contain 3 doing nothing bosses..
if that will keep you playing for next couple months.. you have low standarts.. and its preview.. not actuall content.. first content patch always comes early, because it was already in production before launch.
Exactly
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/324403/Rift-1-million-users-and-second-largest-MMO-in-the-West.html
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They probably have a buffer with content that is already finished and held it back. The real problem is that it will not last. It will however give them some breathing room.
Well, considering players can't really play their first 30 days w/o subscribing this really isn't much of an annoucement.
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RIFT reached that at a similar speed.
So, they're basicly pulling an on disc DLC move ... well, it is EA, so it shouldn't be a shock.
http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-general-discussions/general-discussion/90855-wow-took-three-years-reach-1-million-subscribers.html
GRATZ! Just reached a million around the same time that RIFT did.
i wonder how many of those subs will cancel when the free 30 days is up.
There should be a sizeable jump in player registrations over the Xmas weekend.
Fair to assume that TOR will be under quite a few xmas trees this year, hehe
With over 200 servers I wiould be shocked if they have not sold over 2 million boxes.
It's actually past 1 million mark. The post mentioned they had PASSED 1 million registered players.
Hurray SWTOR !!!
It managed to do something that almost every major MMO launch in the last 3 years did. ( WoW, Age of Conan, Rift and maybe even Aion) The thing to watch is how many subscription actually hang on past the first 30 days and the critical 60 day mark.
Woot . I suspect that the OP's number will be much high with just the fans that follow the Star Wars IP, give it a couple days to get some real numbers going. .
Heck even I am playing through the Story on my Sith and having fun, but just like when I played Dargon Age, Skyrim and Mass Effect, I am still taking time to play an MMORPG, in this case EQ2.
After playing 40+ hours of SWOTR so far it is really a SRPG ( Storyline Role Playing Game ) with a few mulitplayer options, it is hardly a Massive Mulitplayer experience. It may have Massive number of players but you will never see them tucked away in one of the gazillion instances. If you are curious what Massive Multiplayer is like, check out Ogrimmar on any of the Heavily Populated WoW servers, it is a huge town alive with hundreds of other players.
The best thing of fun is that when your standard is lower, your have more fun.
And it will nose dive with the Amount of Subs in the same time frame as rift 1-2 months guarentee
"over one million people are now registered players of the game"
Registered =/= subs.
I kind of hope not.
Hear me out guys.
If TOR does alright and stays moderately successful then maybe investors will clamor harder to find that something missing that will bring in 10 million subs. Or even 2 or 3 million.
Because if TOR tanked, EA's the kind of company that'd go out of its way to just trash the whole genre.
I used to play MMOs like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
i'd say the opposite if it does tank or at least slowly decline like rift it will show developers that the MMO community finaly is tired of the same old thing year after year
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/339443/Video-FollowUp-Guide-For-Enhancing-Graphics-and-Performance-in-SWTORSorry-still-Nvidia-Only.html
And it will nose drive with the Amount of Subs in the same time frame as rift 1-2 months guarentee
I kind of hope not.
Hear me out guys.
If TOR does alright and stays moderately successful then maybe investors will clamor harder to find that something missing that will bring in 10 million subs. Or even 2 or 3 million.
Because if TOR tanked, EA's the kind of company that'd go out of its way to just trash the whole genre.
i'd say the opposite if it does tank or at least slowly decline like rift it will show developers that the MMO community finaly is tired of the same old thing year after year
Well I'd actually say a slow decline could push that agenda as well. Good thought.
I used to play MMOs like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
Source? have Trion ever announced concrete numbers? I don't think they have so......
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