I take it you die a little inside every time you read leet talk then:D

Pff it's no fun when you write that yourself.

Can I make guesses on overall subscription count based on these graphs? No you shouldn't be relying on them to make so guesses. These graph purely relies on instantaneous server population values provided by Bioware, nothing more.

That can probably be said about a lot of games, including the king itself.

Theres's a new LFG tool on the test server. You won't be getting an appearance tab, their choice. Same goes for the dye system, only thing we did have was the colour matching thing which I don't know if it's coming back or not. I don't know where they are standing regarding macros and add-ons.

Seems more like they might have had too many servers at launch.

Unless players actually provide information for the sites there's little they can do.

It does since such a simply analogy doesn't do the process justice. If you ever want to be able to play any future mmorpg you're going to have to understand how the process works and why no one so far has relased with the same amount of content and features as WoW. The mmorpg market is brutal to say the least. Also the analogy is still terrible, neither cars or their accesories have much in common with software. Actually some are. That's subjective, obviously. Some features without a doubt improves the gameplay and they should be implemented into the game at some point. It takes time, especially with a new engine. It just does. Why they chose not to have certain features at launch? No idea. Perhaps they thought they weren't nessecary, perhaps they are still working on them and making sure they work properly. Perhaps they had a deadline to keep and thus didn't have time. Who knows? They just don't and it's going to take time before those features they already want and those that players are requesting are implented into the game. Did you buy SWTOR for the features IT advertised or not? Or did you buy the game thinking that it would have "everything" that WoW has? If you're unable to play a game because it doesn't offer almost everything that WoW does, then you're going to have to wait for a very, very long time. Uh-huh. Would that per chance have anything to do with software development? Also SWTOR seems to be functioning just fine for the majority of players.

One problem is that any new mmorpg is going to have to try an wrestle away WoW's players if it wants to generate a revenue comparable with WoW, which all companies do actually want. Like you wrote before people often look for the most bang for their buck, which is understandable. This is where it gets tricky. Why should people leave WoW when it mostly offers them the same as newer releases do? So far WoW has offered more features than newer mmorpgs when they were first released. It seems like it's more or less impossible to offer the same amount of features/content, since you apparently can't release a game within any reasonable deadline that has all the features/content that WoW does. If a new mmo comes out and it turns out to be a new WoW, in the sense of popularity, then it will probably rejuvenate the genre. There only being one stupendiously profitable, when compared to other mmorpgs, mmorpg with monthly subscriptions is really stagnating this genre. Which is probably why companies some prefer the F2P model instead. At least that's how I see it.

Unless they made a legally binding agreement it's not a promise they have to keep. Just like they never promised players a jedi from the movies.

Yeah you are. A video game isn't a car. So unless you want me to start comparing video games/cars to paper plates I suggest you try using proper analogies. Of course you're going to want the msot out of your money. However video games can be updated every so often with more content/features. Cars can't. Video games are written. Cars aren't. Stop using the bleeding analogy, it doesn't make any sense! Are you playing WoW 2.0? No, you're playing SWTOR. I would hope that you actually bought the game because of the advertised features and not because you thought it was WoW 2.0. If you're not satisfied with the features/content/gameplay provided in SWTOR then fair enough. It takes time to make features work with an engine, you can't just copy paste it from another game that uses a different engine. If you want to play an mmorpg that has all the features that WoW has at this point in time, then I would suggest playing WoW since it has all the features you want. Otherwise you're going to have to wait for SWTOR to add in similar and different features in the future.

Probably not. Then again cars don't have anything in common with video games. It's a bleeding terrible analogy and I really wish people would stop using it. Aye WoW isn't a game anymore. It stopped being a game when it turned into a social event. It's now part of modern culture. Obviously I don't mean this literally.

Oh well if it's fact then you won't mind linking to your objectuve source of information.

I really don't think Bioware thought anyone would care and if you're going to save some mb's why not the rugs?

Why is that being desperate? Yeah, sure you did. Aye... truly, truly evil.