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.... really, 7 days? Is this the Ring?

wow http://investor.ea.com/stocklookup.cfm go to historic look up. Do math. profit.

Rift is listening to the fans / customers at least .. and is being rewarded by the loyal base that remains ... can't say the same for EA.

No, anyone could sure .. your point? I made 122,000 is 2 weeks. how much do you make a year? My point exactly.

^ This I could make an entire post on the forecast models, projections and graph this all out if I was ..... not busy playing League of legends and reading about Monk Pandas lol!

The 2 man watchdog group ... SWTOR is Soooo awesome that they are ... umm analyzing forums and not playing the game. Point me :-) thanks for proving my point .. game fails and you spend more time on forums than in game.

It has an effect, but not to the degree other industries are effected. gaming pools (finite models) have grown since 2007. This is one decline you can't pin on a recession. Any economics major or MBA could probably tell you that.

My numbers are all backed my listed sources which I posted at the bottom of my post. your post is full of inaccuracy, is semi-slanderous and not based on fact at all.

Exactly Thanks for being informed, reasonable and showing intelligence :-)

I did the research, and provide my references. Sorry you didn't bother to fact check your post or follow the links.

WOW I dislike Activision more than I do EA!!!!

A snapshot of page 1 forums (minus stickies.) This is not the tale-tale signs of a healthy and successful MMO. "Founder" feature Reaks of Weakness, Greed, and is just plain Lame ( 1 2) Normally i just let them talk.... Game virtually unplayable now, can't even tell when my cooldowns are on properly. ( 1 2 Why do so many play Empire? ( 1 2 3 ... Last Page) Quick read on EA (SWTOR / Bioware concerned.) ( 1 2 3 ... Last Page) Think ability delay doesn't matter? Think again. ( 1 2 3) James Bond PTFOing! Things this patch did well ( 1 2 3 ... Last Page) Does EA and Bioware Support SOPA? ( 1 2) POLL : Lifetime Subscription ? Become a Founding Member! ( 1 2 3 ... Last Page) People leaving for WOW? O.o ( 1 2 3 ... Last Page) Please add a freeze subscribtion feature Why did Bioware disable forum posting? ( 1 2) Appearance Customization -- Still Badly Needed ( 1 2) Unpublished Patch Notes 1.1 - What they wont tell you. ( 1 2 3) Flickering/random loading screen still ingame Not enough people ( 1 2 3 ... Last Page) Tbh! EVERYONE that un-subs should post on the forums! ( 1 2 3 ... Last Page) No new content! Fix current bugs first! ( 1 2 3 ... Last Page)

I provide you proof in my reference links. Sorry you cant do simple math pal :-)

Look at my posted references. Especially CAPIQ (or any other business intelligence service.)

I held more (me and my investment group.)

I agree, but FF11 is a game from before vanilla wow. Wasn't the point. Trying to knit pick to prove some off the wall point is a weak argument. the game is failing. Rome is burning and Romney didn't win the Iowa Caucus.

Just google EA/SWTOR stock drops EA worst MMO launch with SWTOR ect you will see many more critical analysis than favorable. the favorable ones, google there marketing execs / schools / bios and CMOs and marketing directors at the favorable blogs / mags you will notice something on affiliated member organizations.

CAPIQ puts us under 250k EVE grew after wow ebbed a bit. (no other options in MMOSfor awhile, great game and great SCI-FI option. I am an MMO vet, this is 2011/2012 not 2000 or late 90's. Not an apples to apples thing. they needed and should have learned from the 100s of other failed MMOs and got many of the stuff lacking and wrong currently right in game. If this was 2 years ago even I could cut some slack, as it stand now .. no excuse.

That and this http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=202846 and all others like it. Power to the people!!!!

They are going to take a hit either way, and the opportunity cost alone will cause ehads to roll at EA (finally.) That said, I think they will have to adopt a different model to justify us staying. Further, there are just too many titles on the horizon that seem much better than this game. I'll play D3 for awhile, than 38studios RPG and MMO at launch for example. Might try DOTA 2 (MOBA genre,) and there is always wow to fall back on and league of legends.

Agreed. if it was f2p after buying all would be well. If it was free to try and sub based, id stick around. Pay and sub for this? ... nah

Sorry but, WOW had it easy because the only options at the time was EQ and EQ2 (which didnt go over well,) and FF11 ... which wasn't bad but didn't cater to the casual gamer (that fills most of WOWs numbers.) SWTOR pulls from that finite subscription pool (gamers willing to buy a game and pay per month.) and we aren;t sticking around to pay subs. If it was F2p fine, I wouldnt even complain. This is a subscription game and one we paid for upfront .. we deserve more and the people are speaking out!

OK, Not tech / gaming companies by the percentage EA has fallen. And the fail with Playfish after laying off 1500 people to make the purchase, only to get defeated in the segment by Zygna (who now has a higher market cap than the entire EA brand.) When opportunities and losses like this occur, its problematic at the management / exec level, and this is a huge indicator as to the support current projects receive.

Just an example, my point is other titles will erode more numbers, and this title is not experiencing growth. net/net even more a ghost town in the near future. Why? some go back to wow, some quit for this game, many are bored / fed up with EA, waiting on something new.