Star Wars: The Old Republic sitting at nearly 1.7 million paid subscribers

I think many bought the game + 3 or even 6 month subscription just to realize after a few weeks that the game gets boring fast. I know I did. I haven't played for over a month and I still have 2 month active subscription on my account... Also "Asia Pacific" launch is really Oceania launch - the servers are in Australia and all of us living in SE Asia (including Japan) have a *worse* game experience on "our" servers than on West coast US ones - not to mention the fact they also block Chinese IP so a VPN is required to play the game here.

Edited 2 times. Last edit by Raphael Honore on 9th March 2012 12:46am

Posted:A year ago

i call it rigged bullshit. all statistics and the situation on the servers showing a huge loss of users.

and 2 million users in the end of june? Doug Creutz should quit his job, cause he absolutly suffers a loss of his sense of reality.

Posted:A year ago

I find the vitriol leveled at SWToR... disturbing. It's like everyone in the industry (except those at EA, obviously) want it to fail, and that saddens me. I know that I'm excited to be building a new PC soon, and one of my top priorities is getting SWToR and playing an Imperial Agent through.

I guess I'm not as much of a WoW-hater (or WoW-clone hater, in this instance) as many are. I hope that ToR manages to find a stable niche at which it's profitable enough to support with story content for years.

Posted:A year ago

I think part of the problem is that the story content has dried up for players by now, even for those who wanted to play for both factions. From what I understand from MMO players, the end game content just isn't there yet. Maybe that will change, but as it stands there are some alternatives with more fleshed out stuff for people at the level cap.

By all means, enjoy the story of the Imperial Agent, which I've heard nothing but good things about, but my suggestion would be to not buy a long term subscription yet. Producing new story content will be slow, and you might be waiting many months for new additions to the plot.

Posted:A year ago

SWTOR is an awesome single player RPG with MMO elements. There are raids/instances, but you don't really feel compelled to group. The story is good, and I'm sure you will have a blast playing your IA, but the "story-driven" concept is proving to fail big time for a MMOG, in my opinion. Once you've taken your character to level 50 you don't feel like going through all the quests and visiting the same planets again *just* for a different story. This game desperately needs sandbox elements, especially for end game.

Edited 1 times. Last edit by Raphael Honore on 9th March 2012 7:32am

Posted:A year ago

It's a fun game, but $15 a month is pretty expensive considering what you actually get at level 50.

I've noticed the amount of people online has gone way down since the beginning. At it's peak in early January there was always around 250 people on the imperial space station on weekends, now just 100-125.

Posted:A year ago