FC announced an event they are having next week during their live stream earlier today.  These are the specifics:

http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?p=1304351#post1304351

We want to share the joy with as many people as possible! Any player, who has any type of The Secret World account, may join us over the weekend to celebrate our first month! Early Access, Inactive Accounts, and Beta Accounts may all join in! If you do not currently have an account for The Secret World, you may register to participate starting today, Friday, July 27th, to have open access to this special celebration weekend! You may download the game here.

We posted the same time (mine was 40 seconds earlier!) but changed mine so people can use yours :)

I guess they mean Monday, August 6th and not Monday, August 7th

Originally posted by Dakirn

We posted the same time (mine was 40 seconds earlier!) but changed mine so people can use yours :)

Ah, you beat me to it.  Should have left yours in place, and they could have locked this one since it came second.  :)

And I'm guessing Nasa is correct, it'll likely end the 6th.

Woo!  Now people can really try out the game.

Cool now I can try it out once again.

it says new people can register but now how or where, i just finished downloading the game, do any of you know how brand new people register an account for the free weekend?

Originally posted by happydan20

it says new people can register but now how or where, i just finished downloading the game, do any of you know how brand new people register an account for the free weekend?

Go to TSW main page:

http://www.thesecretworld.com/

Look at the right side of the web page

well, im really stupid, thanks!

celebrating what? I will check the game in about 6 months or so; aint touching it anytime soon; news scream 'we need more subs"

Originally posted by GreenishBlue

celebrating what? I will check the game in about 6 months or so; aint touching it anytime soon; news scream 'we need more subs"

Celebrating the fact that they are losing many of us who have finished everything and not entered our CC information yet (or just havent enter our CC yet), so they are hoping that we are blown away by the August update ;) Im not flaming here, I am being serious....this is exactly what DDO did, too. And a few other MMOs that have gone F2P.

Originally posted by GreenishBlue

celebrating what? I will check the game in about 6 months or so; aint touching it anytime soon; news scream 'we need more subs"

It screams "Our game is good enough to let people try it without paying for it! That's how certain we are that they will like it and buy it!"

It's the shitty crappy games that don't give away free trials, since people will try it and realize it's crap, and will never buy. Only devs who are confident in their product will do free trials at this stage of a game.

It's basic logic.

Originally posted by Bhorzo

Originally posted by GreenishBlue

celebrating what? I will check the game in about 6 months or so; aint touching it anytime soon; news scream 'we need more subs"

 

It screams "Our game is good enough to let people try it without paying for it! That's how certain we are that they will like it and buy it!"

It's the shitty crappy games that don't give away free trials, since people will try it and realize it's crap, and will never buy. Only devs who are confident in their product will do free trials at this stage of a game.

It's basic logic.

No sir, you are wrong. This is an attempt to get more subs. And there is nothing wrong with that. None of what you said made any sense AT ALL unless you are being sarcastic....and if so then it flew right over my head...

Originally posted by TCTC

Originally posted by Bhorzo

Originally posted by GreenishBlue

celebrating what? I will check the game in about 6 months or so; aint touching it anytime soon; news scream 'we need more subs"

 

It screams "Our game is good enough to let people try it without paying for it! That's how certain we are that they will like it and buy it!"

It's the shitty crappy games that don't give away free trials, since people will try it and realize it's crap, and will never buy. Only devs who are confident in their product will do free trials at this stage of a game.

It's basic logic.

No sir, you are wrong. This is an attempt to get more subs. And there is nothing wrong with that. None of what you said made any sense AT ALL unless you are being sarcastic....and if so then it flew right over my head...

What I'm saying is that if they're giving out free trials 1 month into the game, that means that the devs are very confident about their game, and believe it's a high quality product that people will want to buy. It's a form of advertising, yes, to get more subs.

Why is it losing so many subs before the first month is up?   Even in Twitch TV there is not as many broadcasting as there use to be and on x-fire it has dropped out of the top 25 games.    So what is up?

Originally posted by Bhorzo

Originally posted by TCTC

Originally posted by Bhorzo

Originally posted by GreenishBlue

celebrating what? I will check the game in about 6 months or so; aint touching it anytime soon; news scream 'we need more subs"

 

It screams "Our game is good enough to let people try it without paying for it! That's how certain we are that they will like it and buy it!"

It's the shitty crappy games that don't give away free trials, since people will try it and realize it's crap, and will never buy. Only devs who are confident in their product will do free trials at this stage of a game.

It's basic logic.

No sir, you are wrong. This is an attempt to get more subs. And there is nothing wrong with that. None of what you said made any sense AT ALL unless you are being sarcastic....and if so then it flew right over my head...

 

What I'm saying is that if they're giving out free trials 1 month into the game, that means that the devs are very confident about their game, and believe it's a high quality product that people will want to buy. It's a form of advertising, yes, to get more subs.

No. No MMORPG that is confident in itself would give out a free weekend this soon after release. This screams "we didn't get the initial subscriber base we wanted and now need to be desperate". Moreover it wants everyone to see their August update. Coupled with the fact GW2 and WoW are both releasing in the next two months, it's going to be an uphill struggle for them to retain subscribers. 

The dude saying it's because they're so confident in their game. They had a friggan beta event just prior to release which should have generated MORE interest than now, why are they doing it again in such a small time-frame if it weren't for retention problems? The retail sales have showed they sold only 6k copies last week. Die-hards are saying the digital sales are 10-20x that number, bullcrap, it's probably at most 1-2 times at most, which is barely enough to eek out profitabilitiy. 

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Originally posted by Teala

Why is it losing so many subs before the first month is up?   Even in Twitch TV there is not as many broadcasting as there use to be and on x-fire it has dropped out of the top 25 games.    So what is up?

I don't go by people broadcasting or xfire (nobody I know, or have ever played any MMO with, has ever used xfire).

I go by people in the game... if which there are, everywhere, all the time, anywhere I go.  Servers are still too full to create characters on most of the time.

Unless you have some evidence (which doesn't exist because it's proprietary information) you're just speculating.

I remember the xfire argument with Rift too but I still see people playing that... along with any other game people try to pull the xfire "proof" out on.

Originally posted by Dakirn

Originally posted by Teala

Why is it losing so many subs before the first month is up?   Even in Twitch TV there is not as many broadcasting as there use to be and on x-fire it has dropped out of the top 25 games.    So what is up?

I don't go by people broadcasting or xfire (nobody I know, or have ever played any MMO with, has ever used xfire).

 

I go by people in the game... if which there are, everywhere, all the time, anywhere I go.  Servers are still too full to create characters on most of the time.

 

Unless you have some evidence (which doesn't exist because it's proprietary information) you're just speculating.

 

I remember the xfire argument with Rift too but I still see people playing that... along with any other game people try to pull the xfire "proof" out on.

No one you know owns a Neilson tv ratings system but through statistical measurements you can still calculate the general attitude of the audience. 

Xfire definitely won't represent every TSW player, however the general trends noticed on it can be extrapolated into larger player populations. If it has fallen from the played list it means it's losing interest. 

I play pretty regulalry and everytime I log on, all three of the characters I have created are in different full servers.  THere are always people to do groups with and I always see people all over the place.  When  I have been in other recent games, Rfit, Tera and SWTOR, none of them were consistently this busy at this time. 

Originally posted by Teala

Why is it losing so many subs before the first month is up?   Even in Twitch TV there is not as many broadcasting as there use to be and on x-fire it has dropped out of the top 25 games.    So what is up?

Xfire is broken again... Never working right for some like me.

Judging by general chat and LFM the game has gained palyers. constant stream of LFM. As DPS within 2 minutes I may see 10 different groups looking for DPS.