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Well, strictly speaking Catalonia is a region in Spain, but I guess you will burn me as a heretic for saying that
Enough off-topic!
It's difficult now to post the graph, have to save it in PS and upload to tinypic.com... Before I could just paste it.. ah well... here it is:
Taking a break at 3000 feet.
Wow is going down btw.
And some data:
DAY
DATE
# players
% same day prev. week
% from max
notes
Sunday
01/04/12
3911
-9,53%
-66,86%
Monday
02/04/12
3587
-4,95%
-69,60%
Tuesday
03/04/12
3389
-8,85%
-71,28%
Wednesday
04/04/12
3458
-5,44%
-70,69%
Thursday
05/04/12
3465
-4,76%
-70,64%
Friday
06/04/12
3532
0,68%
-70,07%
free week end
Saturday
07/04/12
3570
-3,98%
-69,75%
aprox
Sunday
08/04/12
4009
2,51%
-66,03%
Monday
09/04/12
3539
-1,34%
-70,01%
Tuesday
10/04/12
3329
-1,77%
-71,79%
Wednesday
11/04/12
3371
-2,52%
-71,43%
Thursday
12/04/12
3989
15,12%
-66,19%
jebus patch
Friday
13/04/12
3836
8,61%
-67,49%
Saturday
14/04/12
4213
18,01%
-64,30%
Sunday
15/04/12
4372
9,05%
-62,95%
Monday
16/04/12
4006
13,20%
-66,05%
Tuesday
17/04/12
3827
14,96%
-67,57%
Wednesday
18/04/12
3904
15,81%
-66,92%
Thursday
19/04/12
3794
-4,89%
-67,85%
Friday
20/04/12
3652
-4,80%
-69,05%
Saturday
21/04/12
3699
-12,20%
-68,65%
Sunday
22/04/12
3840
-12,17%
-67,46%
Monday
23/04/12
3434
-14,28%
-70,90%
Tuesday
24/04/12
3179
-16,93%
-73,06%
lowest ever
Wednesday
25/04/12
3184
-18,44%
-73,02%
Thursday
26/04/12
3217
-15,21%
-72,74%
An honest review of SW:TOR 6/10 (Danny Wojcicki)
"Subs are going up" news hits the headlines.
A month later this was clarified as "subs are going up in Catalonia having risen from 1 to 2".
(DISCLAIMER - The use of the word YOU in the above post is not directed at any one person in particular, but towards those who fall into the category itself - there is no personal attack here, neither intentional nor implied.)
They are published the next day, about 2pm GMT
If peak users represented 1.7 million subs, would you say that this current reduction in activity would indicate (not prove) that there are only around 400k subs left in swtor?
That's a little too simple, at the start more would play daily etc, whatever the level it is stabilising now though. For numbers we need to wait for EA to present.
If peak users represented 1.7 million subs, would you say that this current reduction in activity would indicate (not prove) that there are only around 400k subs left in swtor?
That's a little too simple, at the start more would play daily etc, whatever the level it is stabilising now though. For numbers we need to wait for EA to present.
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As RefMinor says it isn't that simple.
If it was then yes - but you would have to add "with a margin of error of +/- X%" And comparing what EA have sort of said (mot easy given the wooly nature of their comments) to what XFire showed then +/-20% as a minimum.
But RefMinor is totally correct. This is not a group of XFire users who started playing SWTOR back in December and have gradually left. Some will have started in December, some in January, some in February, some in March on a trial and so on. We have to assume that we have a shifting population.
And the easiest way to do account for this is to make your margin of error bigger; +/- 200k maybe! We simply don't know, or claim to know, how good, the data is. It doesn't appear to be "bad" however.
TERA EU headstart launched on Friday.
Probably a combination of things. We know from what EA reported that people bought the game in the Christmas to New Year period and that sales continued into January. People who opted for the 3 month sub will have been progressively coming up to their renew or terminate point - and probably terminated in anticipation of EA sending them a come back for free e-mail.
SW buffs are being bombarded by SW Kinnect I suspect; lots of advertising and promotions - same worldwide maybe?
TERA yes for mmo leaning folk maybe; EQ1 went f2p as well. However as a "story driven game" lasting 3 days or a couple of months there are lots options out there that will compete with it; not just mmos.
The question now: is there a floor for SWTOR? And will EA change there business model?
The decision to run the 7 and 30 day promotions must have been taken with senior - and I suspect EA senior management not just Bioware management - involvement because of the message it sends. And EA must have been able to see the drop coming. Just a case of how bad is it?
After this weekend's fiasco I'm not sure if the GW2 fanboys want that to be displayed on a graph.
Currently Playing: World of Warcraft
814
http://beta.xfire.com/games/gw2
Wow. The news just keeps getting better for god's gift to the MMO world.
Currently Playing: World of Warcraft
It was a limited beta weekend. But I think it's really cute that you're trying equate beta numbers as people who are going to buy the game.
Also, quit trying to deflect the fact that SWTORs numbers are at an all time low.
Currently Playing: World of Warcraft
lol Oh no I created my account recently!!! You're adorable.
Difference is, I've PLAYED TOR, you haven't played GW2
I agree.
Currently Playing: World of Warcraft
And ? I don't need to play GW2 to know that it isn't for me.
You might want to save your PR spin for the GW2 forums because right now it's chaos over there.
Currently Playing: World of Warcraft
AHAHHAHAHHA. Oh god, I can't breath
2958 on 4/27.
Setting records daily... just not the right kind.
News getting worse and worse...
It actually looks really fun and it will have something I couldn't get from TOR, massive multiplayer.
I'm pretty shocked that BW hasn't been able to crank out cross server group finders and rated battlegrounds. I think this game is just another addition to the case study of big MMOs that released incomplete. And since they don't have them even now, they are totally hosing themselves as once they're added, many of the people that were waiting for that functionality may have latched on to GW2, TERA, D3 or TSW.
This game actually has a solid foundation, but I don't see how they can stop the inevitable loss of susbcribers. A couple of months ago I figured I'd jump back as soon as they added multiplayer space sim style combat. I'm not sure that's the case anymore.