According to the latest sales report at Chart-Track.co.uk, Star Wars: The Old Republic's retail sales have dropped drastically. SWTOR first hit the charts at #10 during the week of its release but has plummeted to #38 as of December 31st. The numbers come with a caveat, however: These sales reflect 'box' sales, not digital.

via VentureBeat.com

well i guess everyone that wanted it from there picked it up right away?

Not too suprising, I tend to get everything digital on the pc now-a-days.

Originally posted by Scalebane

well i guess everyone that wanted it from there picked it up right away?

That's the first thought I had as well.

Word of mouth might not be so great, if it isn't the digital option hampering sales.

I'm not surprised either way.

It's downhill from here ;)

I think you'll find the same comes out in North America to.

People who wanted it already bought it. There might of been people on the fence, who will trickle in or get burnt out from other games, but I can't see why there would have been a steady stream of sales after the initial release.

I always hear that UK games are cheaper if you buy them in stores vs digital.  So maybe digital isn't as big there.  They do have bandwidth caps so digital isn't as viable an option as in the US

Seems quite normal for a newly released game, the early adopters picked it up already & it will now need the media guys to step in to advertise & drum up interest among the wider population.

Word of mouth & a decent campaign should push up overall sales but the overall sales of games trend has been moving towards digital purchase for a while now.

I think this doesn't particularly reflect on the state of Old Republic's success in the UK. Retailers such as GAME and GameStation have been trimming their PC sections for years, to the point where its mostly a shelving space left for Football Manager and The Sims 3: Let's Get New Hats Pack. Boxes just don't seem to shift like they used to, I suppose that's where Steam picks up the slack.

Isn't that to be expected? Not only is it only box sales but they put this thing on pre-order months and months before release. Not really a big thing honestly.

I have only seen the Tor comercial once, and the chuck norris wow commercial every day. The big question though is how many will stay after the free month. Right now things are looking good, half the servers are either full or heavy loaded.

The sky. It is falling.

Originally posted by Aquazen

Not too suprising, I tend to get everything digital on the pc now-a-days.

I mostly buy digital myself but I'm not sure how this is relative to the article.

Origin is the only digital source for TOR and they only sell to North America (US/Canada).

Originally posted by Antarious

Originally posted by Aquazen

Not too suprising, I tend to get everything digital on the pc now-a-days.

 

I mostly buy digital myself but I'm not sure how this is relative to the article.

 

Origin is the only digital source for TOR and they only sell to North America (US/Canada).

Also EU!

I bought two copies of digital myself. I hardly buy physical copies anymore. I think SWTOR sold as much as it could for now, it might pick up in sales again later but for now i think Bioware sold enough copies, huge numbers for any MMO so far.

Wrong, I live in Spain and bought it through Origin. This in reply to someone who said that Origin only sells in NA... hit reply instead of quote...

Originally posted by shakermaker0

I think this doesn't particularly reflect on the state of Old Republic's success in the UK. Retailers such as GAME and GameStation have been trimming their PC sections for years, to the point where its mostly a shelving space left for Football Manager and The Sims 3: Let's Get New Hats Pack. Boxes just don't seem to shift like they used to, I suppose that's where Steam picks up the slack.

Same thing here in Canada and I assume the US EB Games (now Gamestop here mostly) pretty much have one shelf for PC titles.  I stopped going in to browse so I don't go in to buy now.  I get digital copies only.  Retailers are helping push PC gamers online. . which is fine by me but makes their sales stats not that reliable. . still a representation though.  

Like everyone else said as well. . . everyone who was most likely going to buy it new that months before release and got a copy or decided just after release.  Everyone wants in on the ground floor these days to rush to end game first and quit out of bordeom :)

Man this WYSIWYG editor is a bit messed up. Anyways,

Origin limits sales to certain countries. The US  and parts of Europe.