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So Swtor sells 2 million at laucnh and TSW doesn't sell 500k. wtf?
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Star Wars IP = big sales everytime almost every time
also you knew TSW was more of a niche game.. I will say it is a BETTER game than swtor but not even close to the type of game that will grab mass appeal
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What would you expect? plus Funcoms major accomplishments AO , always in the shadow of DAOC , and AOC which was the biggest flop of that time with warhammer online. Can you really expect people just to run out and buy the secret world with a reputation that most people avoid as a developer.
And now it's going to be living up to it's name again, as subs drop off and Funcom lays off a bunch of it's employees
I would bet that there are people who maybe should have been spending more time singing praises of the game rather than bashing other games. Just a thought.
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Just think about the math. Tor had 210 servers at release and TSW had 8 or not even 4% of the total servers. Just looking at the total serevrs one can see TSW did not sell anyonewhere near as many copies as ToR.
But what does it matter. if you enjoy a game and it keeps putting out content isn'tt hat enough. Mere popularity does not make something good. I would much rather go to a real restraunt than McDonalds despite McD's popularity.
The difference between 300-500 million dollar budget and a 50 million dollar budget?
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No TSW has the ability to put the entire game world on one server. Couldn't judge it by the number of servers.
WoW, all of these wrong awnsers lmao.
Commercials. SWTOR had commercials on cartoon newwork, nsnbc, fox, ect.
Has anyone seen a TSW commercial. They could still sell a huge amount of copies if they made a US National commercial. Only die hard mmo players go from site to site to see whats comming out.
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Brand recognition of Star Wars and the Bioware name. FunCom had one of the worst mmo launches with AO, even though they rebounded a bit. AoC was hyped to no end, sold a bunch of boxes and didn't live up to the hype. Ironically, FunCom was very quiet with TSW, didn't do a ton of advertising and didn't really talk their game up much before hand. Additionally, like others have said, it's a niche game, which will cut your potential by a degree.
Finally, releasing in such close proximity to GW2, and having a subscription on top of that, is also going to kill potential sales. I'll play it when it goes F2P though.
I wonder if anyone will ever learn.
I agree with this ....1 million pissed off fans is quite a handicap to start with
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It's sad to hear they haven't reach their goal, but I think what's killing TSW the most is the fact it released around the time when 2 AAA heavy hitters are about to release. with GW2 and MoP around the corner I can not see this game getting anymore subs.