Dokar
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Yet again, please provide the source that this happens.
BioWare Austin, established in 2006, is the award-winning developer of the popular online RPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and multi-year winner of the Austin Chronicle’s award for Best Video Game Developer in Austin. Our veteran game developers closely collaborate with sister studios in Edmonton and Montreal on other franchises including Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and Anthem. Together we are actively developing top secret next-gen projects that are sure to thrill our millions of fans around the world. BioWare Austin’s goal is to produce the best stories you can play, and our elite teams are always ready to meet that challenge.
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You could just play the game and stop worrying about what other people are saying. The forums are optional and do have an ignore feature.
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Tell me, how does a single quote, that you won't even provide, act as a citation to the rest of the post I originally quoted. I realize that supporting statements is hard, and shouldn't be required where "Because I said so" is all the evidence that's needed, but it sort of falls flat when people want to provide "evidence".
BTW, new is the last thing I am where BioWare forums are concerned. I am a veteran of "but my hyperbole is all I need" from the BSN, and even the Legacy forums all the way back to NWN. Sorry if that offends your sense of "I don't have to support my claims, I made them, and that's enough", but this problem really isn't my own.
I will point out, however, that even your hyperbole refutes the claims I asked for citations on since you didn't say "all of our money comes from subs", but a majority. For the slow: Majority means that not all of their income comes from that source, or they'd have said "All" instead. This means that, despite the poster's claim that F2P players don't support the game, according to your own "source", they in fact do. Logic is hard, when you're used to "because I said so", but you'll eventually grow out of that phase.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1300050-A-Cantina-Meet-and-Greet-Q-amp-A
It was at the Dallas Cantina Q&A
"Contrary to popular belief, F2Pers are NOT the ones buying the most stuff from the CM. It was never clarified whether this means the bulk of purchases is strictly coming from subs or from a combination of subs and preferred status players. (Though this does beg the question of whether F2P is even beneficial if its still subs and sub CM purchases supporting the game.) They are tentatively (TENTATIVELY!) considering removing the limit on the amount of WZ's a F2Per can play in a given week, BUT only if they determine a way in which it doesn't negatively affect subs."
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"Direction"? It is just one expansion for crying out loud. People make it seem as if ALL expansions and updates from now on will be story focused and ignore PvP and OPS.
KOTFE is an expansion and 7 monthly content updates, 9 chapters in October and 7 more starting in 2016
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Well as I said I am in NA. All servers PE servers are currently "Standard" which is not unusal due to the time of day. When I get back from dinner with the in-laws I will of course check again. If in "prime time they somehow suddenly drop to "light" then I may scratch my head BUT again I would not necessarily be surprised because of the fact that ALL MMOs about 6 months into a patch have a smaller active population as players have run out of things to do. Tis is why they have content updates...to give players something to do so they pay more money.
If you look at ANY MMO companies quarterly statements you will see things (say 1-2 quarters after an expac launches)like "in this quarter game X had a drop in revenue as expected however we have every expectation that this will change with the release of the up coming expansion), The expansion launches and the next earnings call says EXACTLY what EA's said in january. "game X contributed to an increase in revenue in this segment due to the launch of the expansion pack." Hell in Blizzard's last earnings call they said that, while their subscriptions had grown from 7 odd to 10 odd million, they expected a decline in subscriptions (most notably in asia, currently WoWs biggest market) due to the post expac "crunch."
"Star Wars: The Old Republic also contributed to this segment with the expansion, Shadows of Raven, attracting many more people into the game with this epic new storyline."
Contributed to this segment , Does not say contributed to the increase in the segment.
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Allow me to quote you:
That seems to me like you're stating a belief.
I provided a source from within the last year to back up my belief. Again, your turn to do the same. Provide a source from within the last year to support your belief that this game is well under 500K subs.
Combined with your quote of gross revenue for 2013 of 165 million leaves only 26 million for sub revenue. That is 167,000 or fewer subs on average for 2013.
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The flashfire is absolutely no different than a novadive. It a frigging talon fighter with its wings folded in.
And this is completely different from this.
Also saying there are some similarities doesn't mean everything is the same. Every single ship going back to the invention of ships has had a rounded hull with a pointed bow. But that doesn't mean a 1500's sloop is the same as a aircraft carrier.
Seems to me you are being disingenuous using the tie fighter which had straight wings and not the tie interceptor with similarly angled wings only turned the other way.
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The point is whether or nor you are logged into the game, you are STILL paying the subscription. You are STILL providing revenue for BW.
I doubt that BW cares one whit if you are logged into the game 24/7 or don't log on for two weeks straight.
You do know this game only gets 20% of it revenue from subscriptions?
Someone not in game is not buying from the CM where most of the revenue is coming from.
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The slot machine is free to use. Just walk into any unlocked Stronghold that has one, or use a friend's. DERP
The only lazy carcass is yours. You can't be bothered to level up Crew Skill Mission or a few of them so you can sell or trade with other players. Spending an average of about 13,500 credits (2700 x 5) for 2 Doonium that is going for 7k credits each is a loss once the GTN takes it's cut. There is no profit. Now either stop trolling or go back to school.
You left the sale of the blues out of your calculation.
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nevermind
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Actually I do based on the responses that I'm reading here. As to the majority versus large majority, yeah that was a stupid way to write it out on my part.
The forum is a tiny fraction of the player base. unless you have actually polled all pre-ordered players you have no idea.
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And your response is just about as unreal. The fact that you can't comprehend where a very large majority of us are coming from either means you simply lack the fundamental ability to read and understand what we're saying or you're jumping on the defense train without any understanding of why you're doing it other than to put the blame on the community. I'm going with the latter.
This is a typical straw man response you gave btw, good job. Completely missed the point by listing things not in any way related but used to (try) and backup your erroneous comments.
You have no idea if you are a majority much less a large majority.
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Simply outrageous
a handful of children cry and give everything for free, what's next? Free mounts? Free equipment?
we've been paying skill for the last 2-3 years, making dailies, FPs, WZs, Farming, and all this time lost for nothing?
more than 460 levels on chars (sum of all ) and now! ARE FREE!!!
It's no a matter of money, its virtual it's a matter of time.
Shamefull and outrageous
Omarzon
They have already given us a free speeder and free adaptive armor.
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Hey folks,
Let’s talk a bit about training costs for your characters abilities. One thing has become clear from the player feedback in not only this thread, but since launch: players do not like training costs. It is a situation where every level you will see your hard earned credits go to a holographic Hutt doctor in order to make yourself a bit stronger. We have been talking about this topic internally for quite some time and when you add player feedback to the mix one thing becomes clear… We should make training costs a thing of the past.
Since launch, you have spent millions of credits training skills across your characters. As of our maintenance next week all ability training costs will be completely removed from the game, forever!
What does this mean for you? This means that starting next week, instead of spending your credits on training skills, you can now spend them on literally, anything else you want. Note that this only affects ability training, you will still need to spend credits to training schematics for Crew Skills, etc.
Thank you again for your feedback.
-eric
Wonderful news, thank you Eric.
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I take it you don't have a job if you think running dailies is like having a job.
I work with computer hardware which is far less tedious than dailies are.
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Nope you are right you don't have to go back and do the dailies that's your choice. But don't sit here and cry because you need 13 million (which is extremely exaggerated) to level up crafting and level to 60. There are ways to make money if you CHOOSE NOT to do them then you have no right to cry you don't have credits.
You know this is game and not a second job right?
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Reasons:
- Challenge
- Group Content
- Fun
Those may not be what you specifically are looking for, but to ignore that operations require balance is incredibly narrow-minded.
Edit: And if you want more content to "RP" in, you need more money at Bioware-Austin to go towards that content. Reducing the money going to class balance will facilitate that; so Disciplines should at least marginally help your experience in the long run.
You realise they could be freeing up resources for Shadow Realms instead?
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Um, yeah, kids were not obnoxious little ***** mouthing off to teacher, bosses, parents, etc. with no one consequences before like 60 years ago.
Also, something seriously wrong when 1/3 of men 18-24 don't bother to work in the US, or cannot keep jobs because they have zero work ethic, skill, or common sense.
if you are 18-24 shouldn't you be in post secondary studies still?
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Good for you? Comparing a real life example to how things work in an online forum does not really work. I still don't see your point.
You have never referred to something you are doing with your guild to a non-guild member as we ?
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Exactly what doesn't make it right? It is how I think, show me evidence to suggest to suggest it is somehow wrong to feel a certain way or have a certain opinion.
when my neighbour says we need a new roof I don't assume he is talking about me and my family as well.
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Hahaha you are so funny. I am not digging any hole, I just said something you don't seem to agree with and therefore branded a troll. Oh this has nothing to do with the English language, this has to do with the fact that I do not like when people assume they speak for me and when I read 'we" that is what I think. You can back peddle make all the excuses you want but that is what it comes down to
Just because you think something doesn't make it right.
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People asked for it. Not everything in this game has to be story driven. But if you want a story, here it is. You're popular enough to buy a house. There.
Most of the posts I saw were asking for free flight space PVE and PVP not space PVP Arenas.
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Opinionated, considering we also got the rest of GSF and GSH and that's actual meaningful content.
GSF, GSH and tactical flashpoint were done at the expense of everything else that many see as the core of the game.
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Well, seems that they have an issue communicating internally as well as externally. They definitely goofed up. Still, "pissed" seems a strong emotional response to a press release delay.
This is not a couple day delay they are talking weeks.. for something that should be all but in the testing phase that is a very bad sign.
Hi Charles and Keith! Any new information about conquest and 5.9?
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It is also possible what he is seeing is an increase in incidental participation and not active participation.
If you have more players doing normal activities are triggering conquest activity without actually trying or having any interest in conquest you will increase participation but not satisfaction with the system by those who are actively participating. It is a bit like adding sidewalk traffic to the number of customers your store actually serves each day.
Without seeing the actual data it is hard to tell one way or the other.
Only time will tell.