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5/07/12 9:16:11 PM#121
Originally posted by Berikai They pretty much made their money back from their box sales. |
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5/07/12 9:16:24 PM#122
Originally posted by Precusor Yeah.... Thanks? |
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5/07/12 9:17:34 PM#123
Originally posted by Blackwater56 How does EA affect the indi-development? |
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5/07/12 9:18:52 PM#124
So just the numerical layout for a bit of controvercy..... Bioware/EA claims 1.3 million subs across 215 servers worldwide.... That is roughly 6050 accounts per server.... Where are all these people. Seems kinda odd that most independant studies place server populations between 400 - 800 on low pop servers, 800 - 1300 people on average servers, and 1500 - 2000 on high population servers like The Fatman. |
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5/07/12 9:21:08 PM#125
Originally posted by Precusor By buying those companies and then gutting them |
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5/07/12 9:21:32 PM#126
Originally posted by NeoZcar2 Lol, "independant studies". |
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5/07/12 9:22:20 PM#127
Originally posted by Precusor
If they continue to lose about 23.5% of their subs per quarter, the game is going to drop under 500k sometime during Q1 2013. That's assuming it doesn't drop significant amounts when the 3 month and 6 month subscriptions finally expire.
I suppose it's possible that sub numbers stabilize and even go up. Of course, it's also possible that Earth will experience world peace in the near future... "possible" doesn't mean either are likely. |
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5/07/12 9:23:27 PM#128
Originally posted by Blackwater56 It seemd you were :P. But cool, it's all good then :). For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson If you can't argue the point don't say anything at all. |
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5/07/12 9:24:04 PM#129
Originally posted by Blackwater56 EA is buying up MMo indie dev companies.. when did this start? |
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5/07/12 9:25:55 PM#130
Originally posted by killion81 Not too long ago people claimed Swtor will go f2p by this time. |
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5/07/12 9:25:57 PM#131
Originally posted by Blackwater56 Actually it is worse than that considering all the accounts they reactivated for their free month.  |
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5/07/12 9:26:09 PM#132
Originally posted by Precusor Eventually those companies will get published, just like Bioware did. Everything will be great until a company like EA comes along, buy them, fired half the staff, and milks their franchises. |
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5/07/12 9:26:37 PM#133
Originally posted by NeoZcar2 Well only a certain percentage are going to be on at any given time. Hmm Fatman still healthy? Wonder how many bloodfiners are still there. For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson If you can't argue the point don't say anything at all. |
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5/07/12 9:27:47 PM#134
Originally posted by Teala I think you needed an active account to get the free month. |
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5/07/12 9:30:18 PM#135
Originally posted by Precusor They had an opt in reactivation for like 7 days as well, question is how many actually did that... No one here knows. For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson If you can't argue the point don't say anything at all. |
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5/07/12 9:31:33 PM#136
Originally posted by Berikai Simple math regarding box sales and modeling a harsh decline (losing 30% subs per month) showed $200mm revenue in like 4 months after launch. Literally the only unknowns were retail store profit margins (which are said to be quite small, and certainly aren't 50% MSR) and ongoing post-launch run rate. The link posted in this very thread is EA itself pointing out how profitable the game is with 1.3mm players. Feel free to keep your arbitrary, hastily-drawn opinion with no basis in facts. Meanwhile I'll crunch numbers with experience having actually produced games and worked closely with the product managers running them -- and discover the game is profitable independantly even before the EA link confirmed it ("profitable at 500k subscribers" is just about where my uber-conservative numbers crunch put the game 4-5 months out...at which point it became profitable.) |
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5/07/12 9:31:35 PM#137
Originally posted by Precusor I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. But here is some info on EA aquisitions. You can decide for yourself whether some of these companies are indie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Electronic_Arts SWTOR is the greatest mmo ever! |
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5/07/12 9:32:53 PM#138
Originally posted by Blackwater56 Who needs a publisher when you can just sell the mmo on steam, |
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5/07/12 9:33:38 PM#139
Originally posted by colddog04 Were talking about MMos. |
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5/07/12 9:35:24 PM#140
Originally posted by Precusor Oh, right. You were. The other guy wasn't. He was talking about them buying up indie game developers. SWTOR is the greatest mmo ever! |
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