if EA wanted to play it really smart and smooth, they'd include a 15 days free trial code for SWTOR with each purchase of ME3.

LOL. This is the most ignorant thing I ever heard in history. Up and downs are never consequential with each other in the stock market. If they were, everyone would be rich. Try to learn some realism. It might help you in your future endeavors. Oh, and random blog without a shred of evidence is inconsequential. Fail thread is fail. SWTOR will thrive.

No, they're not. They turned around quite radically in the last few years. If you want to look for "everything that is wrong with gaming" Activision is where you have to aim.

No. LucasArts didn't loan money to EA. It's an investment. EA has to pay back nothing. Lucas simply takes a slice of the profit, like any investor does.

because Activision doesn't do that... On top of doing nothing else than regurgitating the same tired IPs over and over and over. Oh wait.

Actually they cleaned up their act considerably in the last few years, pushed new IPs and all that. They're a LOT better than activision. People that hate EA are simply stuck in the past (or hate this game, and therefore hate EA).

Considering that EA is the only company that really stands up to the great evil of game publishing (Activision), there's nothing wrong in celebrating that EA is doing well.

Yep. They reversed the trend that doomed every other MMORPG since wow. People that blabber about "wait months from now!" forget that every single MMORPG released since wow bled a TON more than a meager 15% after the first month. That, in this economy, is by itself a massively positive feat.

Because tons of people are continuing to buy it? An 85% retention rate after the first month is basically unprecedented in this market.

WoW fangirl feeling threatened writes stupidblog on trash site.

Indeed it is.

Nah, he's paying the entry fee to the forums lol.

LOL. Quote of the day. You, sir, win the internet.

I'm more leaning on RIFT's fanboys. Most WoW players don't even know that competition exists.

You mean the hype is wearing off fast because you say so? lol. You know what 1.7 millions and growing means right?