AureliaSulis Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Look up the term 'Dead Cat Bounce'. Do you agree that it applies to SWTOR? p.s. I'm an original player (from way back when lv50 was the highest level you could attain). Then I took a break for a number of years. Returned this time last year and I'm slowly working my way through each of the class stories plus KotFE/KotET. However, going by the number of unaddressed recent companion bugs I don't think I'll be activating 5.10 any time soon; and going by the number of unaddressed previous bugs, I'd have to say that the game doesn't look to have any kind of long-term survivability or resilience. Shame, but the writing is pretty clear on the wall. We can all hope that each bounce will give the cat new life, but this kitty I think is deceased. It's pushing up daisies. Just like Monty Python's parrot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerileth Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 It's pushing up daisies. Did it buy the farm? O.O Did it Kick the bucket? O.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheCynic Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Oh, look, another "game is dying" thread. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauceemynx Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Oh, look, another "game is dying" thread. Wow. With a disgusting title to boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorseGod Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 I really ilke the part where the OP is too lazy to explain his obscure terminology and expects everyone to go look it up. You know, if we were just going to respond to crap we look up on Google, these forums wouldn't be necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardrossan Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 You know, if we were just going to respond to crap we look up on Google, these forums wouldn't be necessary. Shhhhh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUXs Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 You guys...show some respect...he's a Founder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheCynic Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 You guys...show some respect...he's a Founder. Tsk. He's an "original player" from the time when the level cap was 50. Well, guess what, I started back then, too, but I'm not a Founder. (I started about three weeks before 2.0 dropped.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUXs Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 (edited) Tsk. He's an "original player" from the time when the level cap was 50. Well, guess what, I started back then, too, but I'm not a Founder. (I started about three weeks before 2.0 dropped.) Perhaps my name should have been TuxTheSarcastic... Edited February 15, 2019 by TUXs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptRogue Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Perhaps my name should have been TuxTheSacastic... *Sarcastic.....learn to spell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUXs Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 *Sarcastic.....learn to spell. You figured it out either way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keta Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 1. No there is no dead cat bounce. That requires a bounce. SWTOR hasn't seen an increase in population for sometime as near as I can tell. Is it just "dead" then? Nope. Life support? Who knows? That's outside all of our pay grades. 2. There are bugs. There are a few bugs in this game for quite some time. Some will be fixed, others that are (fairly) minor will not. There are still bugs in this game that were reported during beta. I know as I was there. I also beta tested WoW, and there are still bugs in that game that were present during beta. 3. I'm a founder as well. Big deal. You either enjoy the game enough to play and (possibly) subscribe or you don't. There are other games around if this one annoys you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rion_Starkiller Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 (edited) 4.0 was the bounce. Charles even said that KOTFE was a very successful expansion from a numbers perspective. Oddly, I can't find the post any more. I wonder if it was deleted. I know he said it in one of the early post-5.0 threads shortly after Keith took over. Edited February 15, 2019 by Rion_Starkiller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AureliaSulis Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share Posted February 15, 2019 For those unwilling or unable to look it up, a Dead Cat Bounce is: "In finance, a dead cat bounce is a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock. Derived from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height", the phrase, which originated on Wall Street, is also popularly applied to any case where a subject experiences a brief resurgence during or following a severe decline." (Wiki) There, you learned something new. It's usually applied to stocks and shares, but also has application to political polling. The application of the term the Dead Cat Bounce to SWTOR is whether the small player resurgence after 5.10 was a lasting thing, or whether the game would continue on its slow downward trajectory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardrossan Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 You guys...show some respect...he's a Founder. It was tough to tell if this was meant as sarcasm, since there are players here who really do think being a Founder ought to give you special status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesirableTom Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 The writing's been on the wall for years now, according to some. But SWTOR continues to outlive every gloom and doom thread, so. I'll believe it when I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noerra Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 This game is not a dead cat. It is a Super Ball on the trampoline, it's NASA's Vomit Comet, it is elevator of Eiffel tower in tourist season... uhh too late at night here someone else can come up with more. But you get the picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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