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GrandMike

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  1. Eh? Thats what your own article says, which you would know if you actually read what it says. Reasons for F2P: 1. game was falling and falling fast, below 500k needed subs 2. its good marketing 3. it lets your current subscribers spend more money (what was their primary goal, dont you adore how they sweet talk "value of sub" ) Now, they said they need 500k subs long term to break even. With all the layoffs and stuff, lets say that they now need 400k. They dropped below that. And what do you do? Masterplan! We will need only 200k if they all pay 30$! So yah, consider yourself warned
  2. 1. Yes they lost them, and with rushed out bad free trial to 50 they pretty much sealed the deal 2. that chart is wrong in 99% of cases (again you have to read actual methodology and how they put data on), it isnt even updated to last official "interval" for SWTOR, let alone for "we dont want to discuss subs any more" phase 3. they sold 2,5+ million boxes, nobody said anything about subs, but there goes your shallow reading and comprehending again You are quite poor at this and im not going to tutor you on it Ill just give you a tidbit: If they kept 2m people paying sub, they would need 10m active people in F2P to get same amount of money. It doesnt sound very well now, does it? Good old fashioned sub is still best way if you have a product that can actually keep people playing. And now you say that getting 5 times more people to actively play your game is easier and better? Nuh-uh lol
  3. Sorry bro, but what youre saying is utter nonsense and you havent comprehended what article says and how it relates to SWTOR. Im pretty sure they didnt plan to lose 2+m people within 6 month sub cycle rofl, and if they didnt lose those there wouldnt be F2P and we would have free content patch 1,5 with makeb, OP and FP for 1 year anniversary. Believing that rushed out F2P was planned, that glacierware content updates were planned though is naive.
  4. 1. I dont really get what you wanted to prove with Taugrim, because thats EXACTLY what im saying because EA PR and fanbois blame players for SWTOR tanking 2. Your link and interpretation of the article shows that you dont read and comprehend, but just skim over and see what you want to see (ive noticed this problem in majority of people, id like to tell you what i do for living, but lets just say it involves EXACTLY that type of thing) Their F2P wasnt because they were too successful lol It was because they were drowning and needed a way out.
  5. By TOS they owe you NOTHING. They provide service "as is". And thats not the point. And "best expansion for less money" sounds like commercial for cheapo detergent lol. Just like this content pat....mmm "expansion" rofl Try harder
  6. I dont have to find anything, i already have it. More than 1, thank you. Yup, i just reckoned the author of the post chose somethign else. That survey is well known...well...at least to those who followed the game
  7. No, i think it was cooked up when 2+ million left the game. No, i think it was cooked up when they saw they screwed up and are still in the red and numbers were still dropping, along with F2P. Makeb was supposed to be content patch no. 1,5 along with new OP and FP and released before end of 2012 (1 year anniversary i would say) Yes, information rules the world.
  8. Ooooh, insults, yeah, that is great. So, in your opinion, when you think of expansion, you specifically call it NON EXPANSION. ahahahahahahahhaahha, try harder And no, theres absolutely no mention of expansion until it popped out for pre-order. There wasnt enough subscribers to keep the game afloat, even less will buy this content update. So yah, its a bulls eye But i guess those few that went to E3 and chose 9,99 will be happy, amiright?
  9. So, what part of them saying NON EXPANSION CONTENT UPDATE you didnt understand rofl Too bad we have video evidence these days and dont have to rely on hear-say And can you tell us how many subscribers went to E3, just to get the picture? And how do you know that majority choose 9,99 eh? And why would they base that on some miniscule number on E3 when they have means for much detailed and accurate metrics? And what about those 2+ million that left?
  10. Yes, you do that please so we can have a discussion without "but but but prove it to me...again" on every second page rofl.
  11. Do it yourself rofl. Because few posts after i do it, youll ask same question again...like you did gazzilion times before rofl. Your tactic is NOT working lol If you didnt get it by now....sorry bro
  12. In other words your post was answered soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many times by now that its pointless to explain ti to you....again.
  13. Well, maybe they are and they just want to test if they can yank another 10$ on top of your sub.
  14. I dont know, just recently they bragged about how "every possible metric is up through the roof". Doesnt really sound like struggle to me. And second: its their screw up. Before they start yelling "PAY MOAR" they should clean up their own mess, otheriwise people dont see a point to feeding them more and more money for less and less.
  15. But but but, its a STEP, its the SAME. Guess you figured that one out now Those are MILES apart
  16. Those same people have been supporting tha game for past year. Those same people put their good faith. When company throws that out of the window, so does all those customers. And that is not particularly well for any business, especially one in situation like SWTOR.
  17. What model? F2P has nothing to do with it. And their customers can actually convey to them that making asinine moves is not very good for their health. Its all in good faith. They try to make the game better for all, even you, you just havent figured that one out yet. And you are effectively disrupting that.
  18. Well, maybe people care about the game and dont want to see it tumble because idiotic stuff like this? *shrug* People also have past experiences with EA and certain people now in charge of SWTOR and see certain similarities.
  19. Well, you sound just like EA talkinng to their SWTOR customers They should hire you Gratz?
  20. It was leaked pretty much at launch. Being a subscriber has nothing to do with it.
  21. No, what was supposed to be in Makeb update was leaked, so we know exactly what they temselves called non expansion content update (that was of course free to subscribers) Makeb Level cap raise OP FP and we also know that it was in production before the game launched and that it was supposed to be here before end of 2012. What we also know is that its 4-6 months late, that it was renamed to expansion to justify price tag (and for shady marketing purpose) and what they announced so far isnt even what was supposed to be in non expansion content update.
  22. Hey, count me in on free expansion, heck, its only 10 bucks They could throw in few months sub too. Its only measly 15/month, i spent that much on handful of pretzels yesterday
  23. Thats what happens when you "wait and see" (which is fanbois favorite line). Along with "its best game evah go away".
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