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These Aren’t the Dropped Subscribers You’re Looking For
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Last week, analyst group Cowen and Company indicated that BioWare’s MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic, was already losing subscribers. In the report, the group noted that SWTOR subs peaked at around 1.7 million, and that the game will likely only carry 1.25 million of those through to 2013. BioWare disagrees.
In an interview with PC Gamer, BioWare’s Daniel Erickson claimed that subscriber numbers are as high as ever, but concurrent user numbers are falling. In other words, people are still paying for the game, they’re just not logging on as much to play it. Erickson also noted that server merges were on the table to help bump up some of the lighter population areas of the game.
In addition to possible merges, SWTOR’s devs are working to add more in-game content, make it easier to join groups, and make in-game life a bit easier with improvements to guild management and the legacy system. BioWare is, in short, doing “anything and everything” to get SWTOR’s concurrent player number up.
Anything, of course, besides offering a free trial.
[Gamasutra]
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You really do any work looking this up ? They just last week had a free trial week.
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They are already considering server mergers already? While Blizzard is still twindling their thumbs and telling people to wait till MoP?
I have clearly been playing the wrong game and supporting the wrong company.
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